Fresh water and international economic law
By: edited by Edith Brown Weiss, Laurence Boissonde Chazournes, and Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder.
Contributors: Weiss, Edith Brown, 1942-; Boisson de Chazournes, Laurence.; Bernasconi-Osterwalder, Nathalie.
Series: International economic law series; International economic law series (Oxford, England)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
Subjects: Water resources development -- Law and legislation.; Sustainable development -- Law and legislation.; Water resources development -- Economic aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-467) and index.
Table of contents: Cooperation or confrontation : sustainable water use in an international context / Urs Luterbacher and Ellen Wiegandt; Water transfers : a means to achieve sustainable water use / A. Dan Tarlock; Water transfers and international trade law / Edith Brown Weiss; The human right to water / Stephen C. McCaffrey; Water services at the WTO / Mireille Cossy; GATS and its impact on private sector participation in water services / Elisabeth Tuerk, Aaron Ostrovsky, and Robert Speed; Economics of water services and the right to water / Henri Smets; Ground water regulation and water crisis rhetoric : Syria as a case study / Ronald Jaubert and Mohamed Al-Dbiyat; Water, agriculture, and subsidies in the international trading system / Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder; Water-related investment : a European perspective / Andreas R. Ziegler; International investment rules and water : learning from the NAFTA experience / Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder and Edith Brown Weiss; Water concessions and protection of foreign investments under international law / Serge Pannatier and Olivier Ducrey; Local communities and water investments / Philippe Cullet and Alix Gowlland-Gualtieri; Water and economics : trends in dispute settlement procedures and practice / Laurence Boisson de Chazournes; Transparency, public participation, and amicus curiae in water disputes / Makane Moïse Mbengue and Mara Tignino.