Cross-border water trade : legal and interdisciplinary perspectives / Piotr Szwedo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szwedo, Piotr.

Series:

Queen Mary Studies in International Law 32.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water transfer--Law and legislation.

Water transfer.

Water rights (International law).

Water--Law and legislation.

Water.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 pages)

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Brill, 2018.

Summary:

Cross-border Water Trade: Legal and Interdisciplinary Perspectives is a critical assessment of one of the growing problems faced by the international community — the global water deficit. Cross-border water trade is a solution that generates ethical and economic but also legal challenges. Economic, humanitarian and environmental approaches each highlight different and sometimes conflicting aspects of the international commercialization of water. Finding an equilibrium for all the dimensions required an interdisciplinary path incorporating certain perspectives of natural law. The significance of such theoretical underpinnings is not merely academic but also quite practical, with concrete consequences for the legal status of water and its fitness for international trade.

Contents:

Preliminary Questions

In Search of a Regulatory Model

Water as an Article of Trade in Wto Law

Water Trade in the International Practice of States

Principles and Institutions of International Law as Conditions of and Restrictions on Water Trade

Ending Notes.

ISBN:

90-04-38289-5

90-04-38115-5

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004382893 DOI