Legal Rights for Rivers: Competition, Collaboration and Water Governance

ISBN-13: 9780367584160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 212 str.

Erin O'Donnell

Opis

Four rivers, in New Zealand, India and Colombia, have recently been given the status of legal persons. To assess what it means to give rivers legal rights and legal personality, this book examines the form and function of environmental water managers, organizations with legal personality, using the USA and Australia as examples.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Constructing the environment in law: making it count  3. Environmental Water Managers: examples of indirect legal personhood for rivers  4. Just another user: environmental water managers in Australia  5. Partnership as success: the EWMs of the Western USA  6. Competing narratives and the paradox of the EWMs  7. Rivers as legal persons: competition and collaboration  8. Legal rights for rivers: a cause for celebration or concern?

O autorze

Erin O'Donnell is a Senior Fellow and sessional lecturer at the University of Melbourne Law School, Australia. She is also an independent consultant on water markets to the World Bank and has worked on water governance in the public and private sectors for more than 15 years.