Water and the law
Subtitle: towards sustainability
By: edited by Michael Kidd, Professor of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; Loretta Feris, Professor of Law, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Tumai Murombo, Associate Professor, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa; Alejandro Iza, Director, IUCN Environmental Law Centre, Germany
Series: The IUCN Academy of Environmental Law series; IUCN Academy of Environmental Law series
Publisher: Edward Elgar; Edward Elgar Pub
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9781783479603
Subjects: Water; Sustainable development; Water resources development; International Environmental law; International cooperation; Law and legislation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction : water and the law : towards sustainability / Michael Kidd and Loretta Feris; title: 2. 'Dynamic Cooperation' : The Evolution of Transboundary Water Cooperation / Patricia Wouters; title: 3. International Legal Perspectives on the Utilization of Trans-Boundary Rivers : The Case of the Ethiopian Renaissance (Nile) Dam / Habtamu Alebachew; title: 4. The Complexities of Developing a Transboundary Water Resources Management Agreement : Experiences from the Nile Basin / Emmanuel B. Kasimbazi; title: 5. Transboundary Groundwater Management : Comparison between International Law Codification and EU Water Policy / Adrien Bodart; title: 6. A Jurisprudential Model for Sustainable Water Resources Governance / Douglas E. Fisher; title: 7. Sustainability, Governance and Water Management in New Zealand / Trevor Daya-Winterbottom.; title: 8. The Protection of Riparian Forests and Water Resources Conservation in Brazil / Maurício D. dos Santos, Carolina Dutra, Vladimir Garcia Magalhães and José Carlos L. da Silva; title: 9. Achieving Ecologically Sustainable Development in Multi-level Water Governance Regimes : The Case of the Murray Darling Basin / Ganesh Keremane, Jennifer McKay and Zhifang Wu; title: 10. Weighing of Interests in the Finnish Water Law : From Financial Evaluation to Normative Weight of Interests / Niko Soininen; title: 11. Water Law : Adapting to Climate Change in South-Eastern Australia? / Anita Foerster; title: 12. Developing an Institutional Legal Framework for Sustainable Regional Water Management in Times of Climate Change / Marleen van Rijswick and Imelda U. Tappeiner; title: 13. Using Progressive Realization and Reasonableness to Evaluate Implementation Lags in the South African Water Management Reform Process / Ramin Pejan, Derick du Toit and Sharon Pollard; title: 14. The Right to Water and its Misconceptions, Between Developed and Developing Countries / Nicola Lugaresi; title: 15. The Endless Struggle of Indigenous Peoples in Protected Areas : The Bushmen's Challenge for Water Rights in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve / Alexander Ross Paterson