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• Title:Fresh water in international law / Laurence Boisson De Chazournes.
  
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• Author/Creator:Boisson de Chazournes, Laurence.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
  

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  • Call Number: K3498 .B65 2013
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Water resources development--Law and legislation.
  Water--Law and legislation.
  Water rights (International law)
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:xvii, 265 p. ; 24 cm
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780199565085
  0199565082
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Fresh Water and its Features
  I. Water challenges: a contextual overview
  II. finite character of water
  III. Water opportunities: a disciplinary inquiry
  2. Regulation of Fresh Water Uses: Evolution, Scope, and Developments
  I. Introduction
  II. International watercourses and their uses
  A. International watercourses and boundary delimitation
  B. International watercourses and navigation
  C. International watercourses and fishing activities
  D. International watercourses and other uses
  E. Conflicts of uses and their resolution
  III. Codification and harmonization endeavours in the law applicable to international watercourses
  A. UN Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses 1997
  B. Helsinki Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes 1992
  IV. Other sources of fresh water and their legal regime
  A. Transboundary aquifers
  B. Ice formations
  C. Atmospheric fresh water
  V. regulation of international fresh water resources and its various dimensions
  A. interplay between universal, regional, and basin-specific instruments
  B. legal interactions between universal, regional, and basin-specific norms
  3. Economization of the Law Applicable to Fresh Water
  I. Economic uses and the law applicable to international watercourses
  A. Navigation and its contours
  B. Infrastructure along watercourses
  II. Water, international trade, and investment law
  A. progressive emergence of the economic facets of fresh water
  B. Fresh water and international trade
  C. Fresh water and international investment
  D. International transfers of water and international law
  E. Concluding remarks
  4. Environmentalization of the Law Applicable to Fresh Water
  I. Introduction
  II. Linkages between fresh water and environmental protection
  A. Pollution and its impact on fresh water
  B. Biodiversity and fresh water
  C. Climate change and fresh water
  D. Large-scale changes in water resources
  E. Links between fresh water and marine environments
  III. Environmental protection and the law applicable to fresh water
  A. Practice prior to the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment
  B. International agreements and instruments adopted after the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment
  C. role of institutions in fresh water instruments
  IV. contribution of multilateral environmental agreements to the protection and management of fresh water
  A. Instruments having a universal scope
  B. Instruments having a regional scope
  C. role of treaty bodies
  V. Coherence trends
  5. Humanization of the Law Applicable to Fresh Water
  I. Introduction
  II. Human needs and the law applicable to international watercourses
  III. Emergence and recognition of a right to safe drinking water and sanitation
  A. Political and legal mobilization
  B. effectiveness test
  IV. contribution of human rights in the field of access to water and sanitation
  V. right to water and health, environmental, and cultural protection
  A. right to water and health
  B. right to water and environmental and cultural protection
  VI. Human needs, public participation, and access to water and sanitation
  A. emergence of public participation guarantees in international law
  B. Participation guarantees and economic and investment activities
  VII. Human needs, the right to water, and development assistance
  VIII. Water in times of an armed conflict
  IX. Individuals and access to remedies
  X. Concluding remarks
  6. Institutionalization Trends in Fresh Water Governance
  I. Introduction
  II. Basin, organizations and commissions
  A. evolving profile of basin organizations and commissions
  B. Basin organizations and commissions as forums for dialogue and cooperation
  C. Basin organizations and commissions, dispute resolution, and the maintenance of international peace and security
  D. contribution of basin organizations and commissions to the development and implementation of international law
  III. International organizations and institutions
  A. United Nations system: environmental protection and fresh water
  B. need for multi-stakeholder partnerships and institutional cooperation
  IV. provision of technical and financial assistance
  A. contours and functions of financial and technical assistance
  B. Non-State entities and technical and financial assistance
  C. contribution of technical and financial assistance to respect for international law
  V. Conclusion
  7. Dispute Settlement and Fresh Water: Trends, Means, and Practice
  I. Introduction
  II. multiplicity of dispute settlement mechanisms in water-related disputes
  III. Inter-State dispute settlement mechanisms, with particular emphasis on judicial means
  A. Treaty practice and codification endeavours
  B. Resort to the PCIJ and ICJ
  C. Inter-State arbitration
  D. Trade dispute settlement mechanisms and other specialized procedures
  E. Intervention of a third party, negotiations, and negotiated settlement
  IV. Non-State actors and water disputes
  A. Investor-State dispute settlement mechanisms: the ICSID and the NAFTA experiences
  B. Human rights procedures and water-related disputes
  C. Recent trends in dispute settlement procedures
  D. contribution of compliance mechanisms
  V. Dispute settlement and issues of interpretation and development in the law applicable to fresh water
  VI. Concluding remarks
  8. Looking Ahead: Trends and Prospects.