Environmental Protection of International Watercourses under International LawRoutledge, 2016 M05 13 - 448 pages McIntyre's work explains the legal means by which requirements of environmental protection influence the determination of a reasonable and equitable regime for allocating rights to riparian states to utilize shared freshwater resources. The work examines the means and processes by which environmental considerations can act upon the operation of the principle of equitable utilization. The volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the subject, outlining the development, scope and operation in general and customary international law of key rules of environmental protection. |
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... approach to the environmental protection of international watercourses makes such attempts to restrict the scope of the Convention largely redundant. 10 J. Bruhacs, The Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses ...
... approach to the environmental protection of international watercourses makes such attempts to restrict the scope of the Convention largely redundant. 10 J. Bruhacs, The Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses ...
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... approach. While each of these principles have been thoroughly explored in recent academic literature, 27 few commentators have attempted to explain the complex interactions between them, and none has endeavoured comprehensively to explain.
... approach. While each of these principles have been thoroughly explored in recent academic literature, 27 few commentators have attempted to explain the complex interactions between them, and none has endeavoured comprehensively to explain.
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... approach has little or no support in judicial or arbitral practice and would appear to have been roundly criticized by the Italian Court of Cassation in a 1938 case where it purported to apply principles of international law in the ...
... approach has little or no support in judicial or arbitral practice and would appear to have been roundly criticized by the Italian Court of Cassation in a 1938 case where it purported to apply principles of international law in the ...
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... approach generally as an 'intolerable' doctrine which was 'radically unsound'.59 Likewise McCaffrey, having conducted a thorough and up-to-date study of purported support for this approach, can unequivocally conclude that '[I]t is at ...
... approach generally as an 'intolerable' doctrine which was 'radically unsound'.59 Likewise McCaffrey, having conducted a thorough and up-to-date study of purported support for this approach, can unequivocally conclude that '[I]t is at ...
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... approach has generally tended to find favour among lower riparian States as it would be likely to operate to retard upstream States in the development of their water resources. This is significant as upstream States tend to be less ...
... approach has generally tended to find favour among lower riparian States as it would be likely to operate to retard upstream States in the development of their water resources. This is significant as upstream States tend to be less ...
Contents
The Principle of Equitable Utilization | |
The Rule on Prevention of Significant Harm | |
Equity and the Utilization of Shared Natural Resources | |
Factors Relating to the Equitable Utilization of International Watercourses | |
Substantive | |
Rules of Customary and General International | |
Environmental Protection as a Factor in Determining | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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1997 Convention 1997 UN Convention activities adopted Agreement allocation application Arbitration Berlin Rules Birnie and Boyle Bruhacs cause significant harm commentary to Article concerning concluded consideration Continental Shelf cooperate customary international law delimitation Draft Articles drainage basin due diligence duty economic ecosystem approach effects environmental impact assessment environmental protection equitable and reasonable equitable utilization established example freshwater resources Fuentes further Helsinki Rules ibid implementation infra inter alia intergenerational equity international drainage basin International Environmental Law International Law Commission International Rivers international watercourse Journal of International McCaffrey natural negotiations Non-Navigational normative notify parties Policy pollution practice precautionary principle principle of equitable principles of international procedural protection of international Protocol provides relation requires riparian role substantive Supra sustainable development Tanzi and Arcari Teclaff transboundary environmental transboundary harm Treaty United Nations UNTS utilization of international vital human needs Water Disputes Tribunal Yearbook of International