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• Title:The law of international watercourses / Stephen C. McCaffrey.
  
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• Author/Creator:McCaffrey, Stephen C.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KZ3686 .M38 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:International rivers.
  Water rights (International law)
  Transboundary pollution--Law and legislation.
  Water resources development--International cooperation.
  
• Edition:2nd ed.
  
• Description:xxxviii, 598 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [545]-572) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780199202539 (hardback : alk. paper)
  0199202532 (hardback : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Pt. I. Introduction
  1. Human use of fresh water and the coming era of water scarcity
  2. concept of the international watercourse system
  Pt. II. Theoretical bases of the law of international watercourses
  3. Theoretical bases of international watercourse law : introductory considerations
  4. International watercourses as exclusively national resources : the "harmon doctrine" in United States practice
  5. Theoretical bases of international watercourse law : an examination of the four principal theories
  6. contribution of the law of navigation
  Pt. III. major cases and controversies : a survey of state practice
  7. major cases
  8. Selected case studies
  Pt. IV. Fundamental rights and obligations
  9. Introduction : the 1997 United Nations convention
  10. Equitable and reasonable utilization
  11. obligation to prevent harm to other riparian states
  12. obligation to protect international watercourses and their ecosystems
  13. Procedural obligations
  14. special case of groundwater
  15. Dispute avoidance and settlement : selected aspects
  Annex I. United Nations convention on the law of the non-navigational uses of international watercourses (1997) with statements of understanding regarding certain provisions of the UN convention
  Annex II. Helsinki rules on the uses of the waters of international rivers (1966)
  Annex III. International law commission, resolution on confined transboundary groundwater (1994).