Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Understanding ‘water’
- Part II Water resources planning and management
- 8 Water law and the search for sustainability: a comparative analysis
- 9 Tackling the global water crisis: unlocking international law as fundamental to the peaceful management of the world's shared transboundary waters – introducing the H2O paradigm
- 10 Risk and uncertainty in water resources planning and management: a basic introduction
- 11 Collaboration and stakeholder engagement
- 12 Capacity building and knowledge sharing
- 13 Adaptive and integrated management of water resources
- 14 Gender and integrated water resource management
- 15 Environmental flows: achieving ecological outcomes in variable environments
- Part III Water resources planning and management: case studies
- Contributors
- Index
- References
9 - Tackling the global water crisis: unlocking international law as fundamental to the peaceful management of the world's shared transboundary waters – introducing the H2O paradigm
from Part II - Water resources planning and management
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Understanding ‘water’
- Part II Water resources planning and management
- 8 Water law and the search for sustainability: a comparative analysis
- 9 Tackling the global water crisis: unlocking international law as fundamental to the peaceful management of the world's shared transboundary waters – introducing the H2O paradigm
- 10 Risk and uncertainty in water resources planning and management: a basic introduction
- 11 Collaboration and stakeholder engagement
- 12 Capacity building and knowledge sharing
- 13 Adaptive and integrated management of water resources
- 14 Gender and integrated water resource management
- 15 Environmental flows: achieving ecological outcomes in variable environments
- Part III Water resources planning and management: case studies
- Contributors
- Index
- References
Summary
The world's finite supply of freshwater faces increased demands around the globe. In the case of transboundary waters, which figure prominently on all continents and support more than 70% of the world's population, the potential for conflicts over water manifests at many scales and in diverse contexts. This work demonstrates how international (water) law contributes to addressing the global water challenge, including through its focus on maintaining regional peace and security, as higher-level objectives. With the aim of unlocking international water law for a broader audience, following a scene-setting overview, the paper deploys a legal analytical framework to examine the key elements of transboundary watercourses regimes (scope, substantive rules, procedural rules, institutional mechanisms and dispute settlement) through selected state practice. This exercise provides a case-study foundation to look at water security issues, and for introducing the emerging new H2O paradigm – composed of the constituent elements of hydro-diplomacy, hydro-solidarity and opinio juris. The paper concludes that public international law plays an important role in addressing the ongoing and complex challenges associated with the water insecurity that now threaten most parts of the world.
Introduction
The water problem is broad and systemic. Our work to deal with it must be so as well. The problem is that we have no coordinated global management authority for water in the UN system or the world at large.
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- Water Resources Planning and Management , pp. 175 - 229Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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