Water Resource Management and the Law

Buch | Hardcover

432 Seiten

2017
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78536-982-7 (ISBN)

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Scarcity of water, floods and erosion caused by climate change have made the management of water resources a challenge to national and international actors worldwide. States have also initiated water projects to improve social welfare, often with significant impacts on the environment. This book combines close analysis of the legal structures of water rights with consideration of the modes of water management projects to illustrate current water-related problems in terms of practical solutions in a global context.The book begins by surveying the current categories of water-related rights to clarify the role of public and private law in water allocation. Many important watercourses cross state borders, so the book pays close attention to transboundary water management including the legal and economic approaches of the European Union. Human rights and participation are also shown to play an increasingly important role in terms of both law and financing of water projects. Case studies illustrate the development of practical strategies for environmentally friendly and socially acceptable solutions, notably through the concept of adaptive water management.

This book will appeal to academics in environmental law, as well as researchers and project groups in organisations dealing with water management and human rights.

Contributors include: N. Bankes, A. Belinskij, H. Coetzee, E. Couzens, M. Couzens, D. Curran, L. Dai, D. Fisher, E.J. Hollo, I. Kornfeld, L. Kotzé, T. Kuokkanen, S. Mascher, E.N. Nyanchaga, M. Onestini, T. Paloniitty, M. Reese, B. Schmidt, M. van Rijswick, P. Vihervuori

Edited by Erkki J. Hollo, Professor Emeritus, University of Helsinki, Finland

Contents:

INTRODUCTION
The Concept and Traditions of Water Management Law
Erkki J. Hollo

PART I The role of public and private law in the context of water allocation
1. Common law and public domain approaches to water governance: an Australian perspective
Douglas Fisher

2. A comparison of constitutional provisions on water-related rights in Southern African states
Ed Couzens and Meda Couzens

3. Private and public ownership of water areas - structures and implications of the Finnish model
Pekka Vihervuori

4. Human right to water: Argentine cases, Human rights – are they enforceable?
Maria Onestini

5. Struggle for Water Rights between the Natives and the European Settlers: A Case Study of Njoro Kubwa Springs (1947-56)
Ezekiel Nyangeri Nyanchaga

PART II Models of water allocation
6. Towards a sustainable, balanced and equitable allocation of water use rights
Liping Dai, Marleen van Rijswick and Bram Schmidt

7. The role of private property rights in Australia’s and Canada’s modern water allocation regimes
Sharon Mascher and Deborah Curran

8. Recovery of costs for water uses at the different levels of water law
Antti Belinskij

PART III Transboundary water management
9. Tensions and relationships in international water law
Tuomas Kuokkanen

10. The Columbia River Treaty between Canada and the United States of America – time for change?
Nigel Bankes

11. Kansas v. Colorado: state sovereignty and the equitable allocation of water
Itzchak E. Kornfeld

PART IVWater allocation under the threat of environmental destruction
12. Climate change adaptation in water management - Regulatory challenges and approaches
Moritz Reese

13. Regulatory Framework of China’s Water Quality Management
Liping Dai

14. Does It Take Three to Tango? The Practitioner’s Viewpoint to Three EU Governance Instruments Addressing the Agricultural Runoff Dilemma
Tiina Paloniitty

15. Shale gas development and water in South Africa: regulatory aspects
Hennie Coetzee and Louis J. Kotzé

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Erscheinungsdatum	14.02.2018
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
ISBN-10	1-78536-982-2 / 1785369822
ISBN-13	978-1-78536-982-7 / 9781785369827
Zustand	Neuware