Indigenous water rights in law and regulation : lessons from comparative experience / Elizabeth Jane Macpherson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macpherson, Elizabeth Jane, 1981- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water rights.

Water use--Law and legislation.

Indigenous peoples--Legal status, laws, etc.

Water-supply--Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 291 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation responds to an unresolved question in legal scholarship: how are (or how might be) indigenous peoples' rights included in contemporary regulatory regimes for water. This book considers that question in the context of two key trajectories of comparative water law and policy. First, the tendency to 'commoditise' the natural environment and use private property rights and market mechanisms in water regulation. Second, the tendency of domestic and international courts and legislatures to devise new legal mechanisms for the management and governance of water resources, in particular 'legal person' models. This book adopts a comparative research method to explore opportunities for accommodating indigenous peoples' rights in contemporary water regulation, with country studies in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Chile and Colombia, providing much needed attention to the role of rights and regulation in determining indigenous access to, and involvement with, water in comparative law.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Jul 2019).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781108611091

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