{"product_id":"the-unece-convention-on-the-protection-and-use-of-transboundary-watercourses-and-international-lakes-its-contribution-to-international-water-cooperation-9789004291577","title":"The UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes: Its Contribution to International Water Cooperation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes provides invaluable insights into the contribution of this international agreement towards transboundary water cooperation via its legal provisions, accompanying institutional arrangements and subsidiary policy mechanisms.  Contributing authors - experts on key aspects of the Convention - address a broad range of issues, primarily concerning its: development and evolution; relationship with other multi-lateral agreements; regulatory framework and general principles; tools for arresting transboundary pollution; procedural rules; compliance and liability provisions; and select issues including its Protocol on Water and Health.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations Notes on Contributors Foreword  PART I Development and Evolution of the Convention  1. Remarks on the Drafting History of the Convention ALISTAIR RIEU-CLARKE  2. From a Regional towards a Global Instrument – the 2003 Amendment to the UNECE Water Convention IULIA TROMBITCAIA AND SONJA KOEPPEL  3. The Normative and Institutional Evolution of the Convention FRANCESCA BERNARDINI  PART II The Water Convention and other Multilateral Environmental Agreements  4. The 1997 UN Convention: Compatibility and Complementarity  STEPHEN MCCAFFREY   5. The UNECE Water Convention and Multilateral Environmental Agreements LAURENCE BOISSON DE CHARZOURNES, CHRISTINA LEB AND MARA TIGNINO  6. The Water Convention and other UNECE Environmental Treaties  OWEN MCINTYRE  7. The Water Convention and the European Union: the Benefits of the Convention for EU Member States GÁBOR BARANYAI  PART III The Regulatory Framework of the Water Convention  8. Scope of the UNECE Water Convention  MALGOSIA FITZMAURICE AND PANOS MERKOURIS  9. Normative Features of the UNECE Water Convention ATTILA TANZI, ALEXANDROS KOLLIOPOULOS AND NATALIYA NIKIFOROVA  PART IV General Principles of the Convention   10. The No-Harm Rule  ATTILA TANZI AND ALEXANDROS KOLLIOPOULOS  11. The Principle of Equitable and Reasonable Utilisation OWEN MCINTYRE AND ATTILA TANZI  12. The Role of the Precautionary Principle in the UNECE Water Convention NICOLAS DE SADELEER AND MEHDY ABBAS KHAYLI  13. The Polluter-Pays Principles in the UNECE Water Convention  LESLIE-ANNE DUVIC-PAOLI AND PIERRE-MARIE DUPUY  14. The Sustainability Principle  ALISTAIR RIEU-CLARKE  PART V Tools for Preventing or Mitigating Transboundary Impact  15. The Development of Legal Provisions and Measures for Preventing and Reducing Pollution to Transboundary Water Resources under the UNECE Water Convention RÉMY KINNA  16. Integrated Water Resources Management as a Tool to Prevent or Mitigate Transboundary Impact  HEIDE JEKEL  PART VI Data Collection and Information Sharing   17. Monitoring and Assessment and the duty of cooperation under the Water Convention: exchange of information among the riparian parties ANNUKKA LIPPONEN AND LEA KAUPPI  18. Public Information and Participation under the Water Convention  SERHIY VYKHRYST  PART VII Cooperation and its Institutional Setting: The Water Convention and the Evolution of Procedural Rules of International Water Law   19. The Duty to Cooperation in International Water Law – Examining the Contribution of the UN Water Conventions to Facilitating Transboundary Water Cooperation PATRICIA WOUTERS AND CHRISTINA LEB  20. The Contribution of the UNECE Water Regime to Transboundary Cooperation in the Danube River Basin  RUBY MOYNIHAN  21. Cooperation between Finland and the Russian Federation ANTTI BELINSKIJ   Part VIII Compliance, Responsibility, Liability, Dispute Prevention and Settlement   22. Dispute Prevention, Dispute Settlement and Implementation Facilitation in International Water Law: the Added Value of the Establishment of an Implementation Mechanism under the Water Convention ATTILA TANZI AND CRISTINA CONTARTESE  23. The 2003 Kiev Protocol on Civil Liability and Compensation for Damage Caused by the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents on Transboundary Waters PHANI DASCALOPOULOU-LIVADA AND ALEXANDROS KOLLIOPOULOS  PART IX Select Issues  24. The Water Convention and the Human Right to Access to Water: The Protocol on Water and Health OWEN MCINTYRE  25. The UNECE Model Provisions on Transboundary Flood Management  ALEXANDROS KOLLIOPOULOS  26. International Water Law and Climate Disruption Adaptation VASILIKI-MARIA TZATZAKI AND A. DAN TARLOCK  27. Advancing Dam Safety in Central Asia: The Contribution of the UNECE Water Convention BO LIBERT AND IULIA TROMBITCAIA  28. The International Water Law Process and Transboundary Groundwater: Supplementing the Water Convention with the 2012 UNECE Model Provisions ATTILA TANZI AND ALEXANDROS KOLLIOPOULOS   PART X Viewing the Convention from Outside the UNECE  29. The Water Convention from a North American Perspective EMMA S. NORMAN, ALICE COHEN AND KAREN BAKKER  30. The UNECE Water Convention from a Latin American Perspective LILIAN DEL CASTILLO-LABORDE   31. Enhancing China’s transboundary water cooperation – what role for the UNECE Water Convention?  PATRICIA WOUTERS  32. The UNECE Water Convention Viewed from the perspective of the SADC Revised Protocol on Shared Watercourses RÉMY KINNA  33. The development of a regional legal framework for shared waters in the Arab Region: potential guidance from the UNECE Water Convention RAYA MARINA STEPHAN   PART XI The role of international financial institutions   34. Environmental Conditionalities and International Funding of Water Works of a Transboundary Relevance A. VAUGHAN LOWE  35. International Financial Institutions and the Water Convention: Consultations Arrangements SALMAN M. A. SALMAN  PART XII Conclusions   36. The Contribution of the UNECE Water Convention to International Water Law ATTILA TANZI, OWEN MCINTYRE AND ALEXANDROS KOLLIOPOULOS","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210668204375,"sku":"9789004291577","price":229.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-unece-convention-on-the-protection-and-use-of-transboundary-watercourses-and-international-lakes-its-contribution-to-international-water-cooperation-9789004291577","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}