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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... United Nations Population Division, Sustaining Water: An Update 4 (1955) (low estimates). 8 ibid. 9 ibid. Only 2.59 per cent of the total volume of the world's water is fresh. Of this, more than 99 per cent is in the form of ice or snow ...
... United Nations Population Division, Sustaining Water: An Update 4 (1955) (low estimates). 8 ibid. 9 ibid. Only 2.59 per cent of the total volume of the world's water is fresh. Of this, more than 99 per cent is in the form of ice or snow ...
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... United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses (New York, 21 May 1997), (1997) 36 ILM 700 (not yet in force) which, by early 2003, had 18 signatories. Because this Convention is the ...
... United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses (New York, 21 May 1997), (1997) 36 ILM 700 (not yet in force) which, by early 2003, had 18 signatories. Because this Convention is the ...
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... United Nations.62 It can also be seen as being somewhat more in step with the general principles of international law relating to environmental protection and with general obligations to cooperate. 62 See further, Bruhacs, ibid, at 47 ...
... United Nations.62 It can also be seen as being somewhat more in step with the general principles of international law relating to environmental protection and with general obligations to cooperate. 62 See further, Bruhacs, ibid, at 47 ...
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... United Nations Environment Programme's 1978 Principles on Shared Natural Resources, and the successive Draft Articles on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses adopted by the International Law Commission and ...
... United Nations Environment Programme's 1978 Principles on Shared Natural Resources, and the successive Draft Articles on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses adopted by the International Law Commission and ...
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... UN Committee on Natural Resources, UN Doc. W/C.7/2 Add. 6, 1–7; Economic Commission for Europe, Committee on Water Problems 1971, UN Doc. E/ECE/Water/9 Annex II; Council of Europe Rec. 436 (1965); ... United Nations Conference on the Human.
... UN Committee on Natural Resources, UN Doc. W/C.7/2 Add. 6, 1–7; Economic Commission for Europe, Committee on Water Problems 1971, UN Doc. E/ECE/Water/9 Annex II; Council of Europe Rec. 436 (1965); ... United Nations Conference on the Human.
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