Riverflow : the right to keep water instream / Paul Stanton Kibel, Golden Gate University School of Law.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kibel, Paul Stanton, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water rights.

Water trusts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 288 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

There are many people and places connected to rivers: fishermen whose livelihood depends on river ecosystems, farms that need irrigation, indigenous groups whose cultures rely on fish and flowing waters, cities whose electricity comes from hydroelectric dams, and citizens who seek wild nature. For all of these people, instream flow is vitally important to where and how they live and work. Riverflow reveals the diverse and creative ways people are using the law to restore rivers, from the Columbia, Colorado, Klamath and Sacramento-San Joaquin watersheds in America, to the watersheds of the Tweed in England and Scotland, the Fraser in Canada, the Saru in Japan, the Nile in North Africa, and the Tigris-Euphrates in the Middle East. Riverflow documents that we already have the legal tools to preserve the ecological integrity of our waterways; the question is whether we have the political will to deploy these tools effectively.

Contents:

Introduction : publicum ius aquae

Instream rights and the public trust

Instream rights and unreasonable use

Instream rights and dams

Instream rights and watershed governance

Instream rights as federal law recedes

Instream rights as water temperatures rise

Instream rights as sea levels rise

Instream rights and groundwater extraction

Instream rights and old canals

Instream rights and water as an investment

Instream rights and international law

Instream rights and irrigation subsidies

Instream rights and pacific salmon

Instream rights and hatchery fish

Instream rights as indigenous rights conclusion : policy disconnected from science.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-93438-2

1-108-93514-1

1-108-93311-4