Transboundary Water Cooperation: Principles, Practice and Prospects for China and Its Neighbours

ISBN-13: 9780367886783 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 378 str.

Patricia Wouters; Huiping Chen; James E. Nickum

Opis

Grounded in international experience, this book is an up-to-date overview of current international transboundary water resource sharing policies and practices, including detailed case studies at both domestic and international levels. The articles in this book were originally published in the journal Water International.

Spis treści

1. Introduction Part I: The building blocks of cooperation on shared waters  2. One step at a time: international law and the duty to cooperate in the management of shared water resources   3. The human right to water and foreign investment: friends or foes?  4. Ten building blocks for sustainable water governance: an integrated method to assess the governance of water    5. Transboundary water law and vulnerable people: legal interpretations of the ‘equitable use’ principle   6. The governance of wetland ecosystems and the promotion of transboundary water cooperation – opportunities presented by the Ramsar Convention   Part II: International experiences  7. The UNECE Water Convention and the development of transboundary cooperation in the Chu-Talas, Kura, Drin and Dniester River basins   8. Do good fences make good neighbours? Canada-United States transboundary water governance, the Boundary Water Treaty, and twenty-first-century challenges  9. Transboundary water management: lessons learnt from North America   10. An analysis of Turkey’s water diplomacy and its evolving position vis-à-vis international water law  Part III: China’s international waters and the potential for cooperation  11. Identifying China’s transboundary water risks and vulnerabilities – a multidisciplinary analysis using hydrological data and legal/institutional settings    12. Contemporary legal analysis of China’s transboundary water regimes: international law in practice   13. China’s practice on the non-navigational uses of transboundary waters: transforming diplomacy through rules of international law    14. Benefit-sharing and upstream/downstream cooperation for ecological protection of transboundary waters: opportunities for China as an upstream state   15. Approaches to investment in Chinese transboundary waters &nb

O autorze

Patricia Wouters is a Professor in the School of Law at Xiamen University, China, and Director of the China International Water Law Programme (CIWL).

Huiping Chen is a Professor in the School of Law at Xiamen University, China.

James E. Nickum is an institutional economist affiliated to the IWRA, the Centre for Water and Development at SOAS, UK, and the University of Hong Kong.