Environmental Protection of International Watercourses under International LawMcIntyre'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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Both of the latter approaches described above provide a pretext under which the increasingly sophisticated rules and principles of general international environmental law, both firmly established and emerging, which act to articulate, ...
Both of the latter approaches described above provide a pretext under which the increasingly sophisticated rules and principles of general international environmental law, both firmly established and emerging, which act to articulate, ...
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... legal grounds for potential complainants and serve to inform the practical application of the more general conventional and established customary rules relating to the environmental protection of an international watercourse.
... legal grounds for potential complainants and serve to inform the practical application of the more general conventional and established customary rules relating to the environmental protection of an international watercourse.
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... environmental law is far from simple, most generally applicable conventional and declaratory instruments relating to the environment consist of little more than codifications of existing custom or established State practice.
... environmental law is far from simple, most generally applicable conventional and declaratory instruments relating to the environment consist of little more than codifications of existing custom or established State practice.
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... which, along with the Mexican Government, instructed the International Boundary Commission, which had been established in 1889, to ascertain the facts and to report on '[t]he best and most feasible mode ... of so regulating the use ...
... which, along with the Mexican Government, instructed the International Boundary Commission, which had been established in 1889, to ascertain the facts and to report on '[t]he best and most feasible mode ... of so regulating the use ...
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The doctrine would appear to have been recognized, though in a moderate formulation, as established general international law by the International Law Institute in its 1911 Madrid Declaration.68 The Declaration recognized as fact that ...
The doctrine would appear to have been recognized, though in a moderate formulation, as established general international law by the International Law Institute in its 1911 Madrid Declaration.68 The Declaration recognized as fact that ...
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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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Bibliographic information
| Title | Environmental Protection of International Watercourses under International Law |
| Author | Owen McIntyre |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2016 |
| ISBN | 1317142209, 9781317142201 |
| Length | 448 pages |
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