Legal Mechanisms for Water Resources in the Third Millennium: Select Papers from the Iwra XIV and XV World Water Congresses

ISBN-13: 9780815363637 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 238 str.

Marcella Nanni; Stefano Burchi; Ariella D'Andrea

Opis

This book examines contemporary legal mechanisms for water resources management, the manner in which they have evolved over time, as well as the constraints they face due to changing circumstances. The chapters originally published in Water International.

Spis treści

1 Introduction Marcella Nanni, Stefano Burchi, Ariella D’Andrea, Gabriel Eckstein PART 1: Water law developments and trends in a changing world 2 A comparative review of contemporary water resources legislation: trends, developments 
and an agenda for reform
 Stefano Burchi  3 Legislation as a tool in support of adaptive water management in response to climate change Marcella Nanni PART 2: Challenges to Water Security: Equity, legal pluralism, and climatic variability 4 Water governance reform in the context of inequality: securing rights or legitimizing
 dispossession?
 Helle Munk Ravnborg 5 Compulsory licensing under South Africa’s National Water Act Michael Kidd 6 Legal pluralism and customary water resources management in Guatemala
 Ariella D’Andrea 7 Why the Western United States’ prior appropriation water rights system should weather
 climate variability Jonathan R. Schutz 8 Adapting water laws to increasing demand and a changing climate Eric L. Garner PART 3: Multiple approaches for achieving access to water 9 The human right to water as a creature of global administrative law
 Owen McIntyre 10 The right to water in a transboundary context: emergence of seminal trends 
Christina Leb 11 Scottish Water: a public-sector success story
 Sarah Hendry PART 4: Science and the Law: bridging the gap 12 Are we killing the rain? Meditations on the water cycle and, more particularly,
 on bioprecipitation
 Jane Maslow Cohen 13 Governing water augmentation under the Watercourse Convention
 Rhett B. Larson PART 5: Cooperation on Transboundary water resources: current state and future directions 14 Joint infrastructure and the sharing of benefits in the Senegal and Niger watersheds Mara Tignino 15 Ad hoc legal mechanisms governing transboundary aquifers: current status
 and future prospects Laura Movilla Pateiro 16 Adaptation in the Tisza: innovation and tribulation at the sub-basin level
 Shanna N. McClain, Carl Bruch and Silvia Secchi

O autorze

Marcella Nanni is an expert in national and international water law and administration, and related disciplines, and the Vice-Chairperson of the Executive Council of the International Association for Water Law (AIDA). Stefano Burchi is an expert in comparative and international water law. He is the Chairman of AIDA’s Executive Council. Ariella D’Andrea is a natural resources lawyer specializing in fisheries, aquaculture and water resources law, and a member of AIDA. Gabriel Eckstein is a professor of law at Texas A&M University School of Law, specializing in water, environment, natural resources and international law, and a member of AIDA.