Law of International Watercourses

Name: Law of International Watercourses
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ISBN: 9780199202539

ISBN-10: 0199202532

ISBN-13: 9780199202539

Edition: 2nd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Stephen McCaffrey

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The Law of International Watercourses examines the rules of international law governing the navigational and non-navigational uses of international watercourses. The continued growth of the world's population places increasing demands on Earth's finite supplies of fresh water. Because two or more states share many of the world's most important drainage basins - including the Danube, the Ganges, the Indus, the Jordan, the Mekong, the Nile, the Rhine and theTigris-Euphrates - competition for increasingly scarce fresh water resources is likely to increase. Agreements between the states sharing international watercourses will be negotiated, and disputes over shared water will be resolved,…

Book details

List price: $185.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/16/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 640
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.46" tall
Weight: 2.398
Language: English




Introduction



Human Use of Fresh Water and the Coming Era of Water Scarcity



The Concept of the International Watercourse System



Theoretical Bases of the Law of International Watercourses



Theoretical Bases of International Watercourse Law: IntroductoryConsiderations



International Watercourses as Exclusively National Resources: The "HarmonDoctrine" in United States Practice



Theoretical Bases of International Watercourse Law: An Examination of the Four Principal Theories



The Contribution of the Law of Navigation



The Major Cases and Controversies



The Major Cases



Selected Case Studies



Fundamental Rights and Obligations



Introduction: The 1997 United Nations Convention



Substantive Obligations



The Obligation to Utilize An International Watercourse in an Equitable andReasonable Manner



The Obligation to Prevent Harm to Other Riparian States



The Obligation to Protect International Watercourses and Their Ecosystems



Procedural Obligations



Procedural Obligations



Groundwater



The Special Case of Groundwater



Dispute Avoidance and Settlement



Dispute Avoidance and Settlement: Selected Aspects Annexes



United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses (1997) with Statements of Understanding regardingcertain provisions of the UN Convention



Helsinki Rules on the Uses of the Waters of International Rivers (1966)



International Law Commission, Resolution on Confined Transboundary Groundwater