The law and governance of water resources
Subtitle: the challenge of sustainability
By: Douglas Fisher
Series: New horizons in environmental and energy law; New horizons in environmental and energy law
Publisher: Edward Elgar; Co-published by IWA Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9781847206299; 9781843392392
Subjects: Law and legislation; Water resources development; Sustainable development
Description: "To achieve the sustainable use and development of water resources is a daunting challenge for both global and local communities. It requires commitments from all the groups within international, national and local communities from their on particular, possibly conflicting, perspectives. Without a set of coherent legal arrangements designed to ensure effective governance of water resources, their sustainable use and development is unlikely to be achieved. Douglas Fisher considers how legal arrangements for managing water resources have evolved across the continents over hundreds of years. He explores their relevance for contemporary society; how the norms of current international and national legal regimes are responding; and, most importantly, how legal rights and duties should be structured so as to achieve sustainability in the future." - back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-372) and index.
Table of contents: title: The challenge of sustainable water resources governance; title: The formal structure of water resources governance; title: The normative structure of international arrangements; title: The normative structure of arrangements within states; title: Evolving international arrangements for water resources governance; title: Evolving national arrangements for water resources governance; title: Towards sustainable water resources governance.