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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... cause substantial harm or significant and substantial harm to the environment by discharging oil into or on navigable waters , adjoining shorelines , or the exclusive economic zone . These guidelines identify criteria which may be used ...
... cause substantial harm or significant and substantial harm to the environment by discharging oil into or on navigable waters , adjoining shorelines , or the exclusive economic zone . These guidelines identify criteria which may be used ...
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... cause significant harm only comprises injuries caused by human acts. Therefore, states are not obliged to modify the ... cause significantharm, it does not provide a definition of that notion.44 Significant harm is not so much qualified ...
... cause significant harm only comprises injuries caused by human acts. Therefore, states are not obliged to modify the ... cause significantharm, it does not provide a definition of that notion.44 Significant harm is not so much qualified ...
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... significant market impacts,” an administrative procedure along the lines discussed below can adequately address these complications in making the finding of ʺintent to impose significant harm ... cause market participants to avoid actions ...
... significant market impacts,” an administrative procedure along the lines discussed below can adequately address these complications in making the finding of ʺintent to impose significant harm ... cause market participants to avoid actions ...
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... significant controversy.51 However, as stated by Salman, 'it is now widely believed ... that the obligation not to cause significant harm subordinates the principle of equitable and reasonable utilization'.52 As also stated by Wouters ...
... significant controversy.51 However, as stated by Salman, 'it is now widely believed ... that the obligation not to cause significant harm subordinates the principle of equitable and reasonable utilization'.52 As also stated by Wouters ...
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... cause significant threats . See DEC Br . at 11. To the contrary , the Appellate Division held that the criteria ... harm . See R. 860. The Appellate Division did not hold , however , the converse to be true YİZ . , that the potential for harm ...
... cause significant threats . See DEC Br . at 11. To the contrary , the Appellate Division held that the criteria ... harm . See R. 860. The Appellate Division did not hold , however , the converse to be true YİZ . , that the potential for harm ...
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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