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Freshwater access from a human rights perspective : a challenge to international water and human rights law / by Knut Bourquain.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bourquain, Knut.
- Series:
- International studies in human rights ; v. 97.
- International studies in human rights, 0924-4751 ; v. 97
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human rights.
- Fresh water--Law and legislation.
- Fresh water.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (268 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Insufficient access to a basic water supply is not an unavoidable consequence of water scarcity. In fact, arid countries possess enough resources to fulfil the basic water needs of their populations and there are people in water rich countries suffering from water stress, too. Thus, insufficient freshwater access mainly can be seen as a problem of allocation and mismanagement. This book comprehensively analyses the appropriateness of a human rights-based approach in safeguarding basic water supplies and determines its legal basis in international law. Arriving at the conclusion that international water law does not adequately consider individual water needs, the study identifies applicable human rights and examines the concrete standard of protection they provide. In view of the deficits of current international water and human rights law, the study discusses concepts deemed to strengthen a human rights-based approach to freshwater access by considering both their formal legal appropriateness as well as their suitability in legal reality.
- Contents:
- The law on international watercourses and its deficits in providing freshwater access
- Elements of a human rights-based approach to freshwater access
- The human rights-based approach to freshwater access within current international human rights law
- Improving a human rights-based approach to freshwater access.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-253) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-60201-2
- 9786612602016
- 90-474-3146-4
- OCLC:
- 593295785
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/ej.9789004169548.i-258 DOI
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