Sovereignty and international water law. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Terje Tvedt, Owen McIntyre and Tadesse Kassa Woldetsadik.
• Editors: Tvedt, Terje; McIntyre, Owen; Tadesse Kassa Woldetsadik, 1973-
• Contents: State sovereignty, water systems and the development of international water law. Sovereignty, the web of water, and the myth of Westphalia / Terje Tvedt, Owen McIntyre and Tadesse Kassa Woldetsadik ; The evolution of water law / Joseph W. Dellapenna and Joyeeta Gupta ; The siren song of sovereignty in international water relations / Stephen McCaffrey ; The history of water law in the common law tradition / William Howarth ; History of water law in Scandinavia / Ernst Nordtveit ; State sovereignty in the case law of the international court of justice / Sergio Marchisio -- Contemporary challenges to state sovereignty. Determining sovereign rights and duties over international watercourses : the contribution of the international law commission and the UN General Assembly / Alistair Rieu-Clarke ; Sovereignty and equitable utilization of international waters : some examples in Central Asia, Africa and the Middle East / Remy L. de Jong ; Territory, resource rights and rivers : a philosophical case for overlapping jurisdiction / Cara Nine ; History and status of the community-of-interests doctrine / Flavia Rocha Loures ; Reconciling sovereignty with supranationality : lessons from the Nordic countries / Julie Gjørtz Howden ; Integration of the right to water in international law : circumventing and bypassing state sovereignty / Sylvie Paquerot ; State sovereignty and transboundary aquifers / Raya Marina Stephan and Gabriel de los Cobos ; Sovereignty and the procedural rules of international water law / Owen McIntyre ; Addressing water security challenges : the international law 'duty to cooperate' as a limit to absolute state sovereignty / Patricia Wouters -- Regional case studies. Sovereignty and equitable utilization : a regional implementation summary / Lilian del Castillo-Laborde ; State sovereignty and shared water resources under the Islamic legal tradition / Yadgar Ahmmad ; Colorado and the western United States / Tom Cech ; Sovereignty and the joint management of shared transboundary water resources in the West African Sub-region / Joe Goldface-Irokalibe ; Principles of transboundary water resources management and the frontier watercourses agreement between Finland and Russia / Muhammad Mizanur Rahaman ; Reflections and trends on sovereignty over natural resources : the Association of Southeast Asian Nations / Amado S. Tolentino Jr. ; Australian water law history : the move from introspective state sovereignty to a national interest approach and the influence of international law / Jennifer McKay ; Transboundary water law : the practice of the People's Republic of China / Desheng Hu ; The concept of state sovereignty and river/lake basin law in South Eastern Europe / Slavko Bogdanovic ; Development of European water law and state sovereignty / Christoph Vedder and Stefan Lorenzmeier ; Nationalism, state sovereignty and international water management in the Zambezi River Basin / Dean Kampanje-Phiri ; Water systems, water agreements and state sovereignty : the case of the Nile Waters Agreement of 1929 / Terje Tvedt ; Constructing dams : between sovereignty of states and rules of international water law / Mohamed Sameh Amr ; Remodelling sovereignty : overtures of a new water security paradigm in the Nile Basin legal discourse / Tadesse Kassa Woldetsadik ; The doctrines of sovereignty and equitable utilization of international waters under the agreement on the Nile River Basin Cooperative Framework / Charles Okidi ; Uganda : sovereignty and international water agreements / Emmanuel B. Kasimbazi.
• Publisher Details: London : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (vii, 735 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 346.04691; Water -- Law and legislation; Water resources development -- Law and legislation; Water-supply -- Law and legislation; International rivers; LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; International rivers; Water -- Law and legislation; Water resources development -- Law and legislation; Water-supply -- Law and legislation; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857736581; 0857736582
• Related ISBNs: 9781780764481; 1780764480
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.