The UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes : its contribution to international water cooperation / edited by Attila Tanzi, Owen McIntyre, Alexandros Kolliopoulos, Alistair Rieu-Clarke, Rémy Kinna.
2015
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Title
The UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes : its contribution to international water cooperation / edited by Attila Tanzi, Owen McIntyre, Alexandros Kolliopoulos, Alistair Rieu-Clarke, Rémy Kinna.
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, [2015]
Call Number
KJC6094.A41992 U54 2015
ISBN
9789004291577 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9004291571 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9789004291584 (e-book)
9004291571 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9789004291584 (e-book)
Description
xxvii, 547 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)902986937
Summary
This book 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.
Note
This book 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes
Table of Contents
Foreword
xi
Abbreviations
xiv
Notes on Contributors
xvii
Part 1. Development and Evolution of the Convention
1.
Remarks on the Drafting History of the Convention
3
2.
From a Regional towards a Global Instrument - The 2003 Amendment to the UNECE Water Convention / Alistair Rieu-Clarke
15
3.
Normative and Institutional Evolution of the Convention / Sonja Koeppel Julia Trombitcaia
32
Part 2. The Water Convention and Other Multilateral Environmental Agreements / Francesca Bernardini
4.
1997 UN Convention: Compatibility and Complementarity / Francesca Bernardini
51
5.
UNECE Water Convention and Multilateral Environmental Agreements / Stephen McCaffrey
60
6.
Water Convention and other UNECE Environmental Treaties / Mara Tignino Laurence Boisson De Charzournes, Christina Leb
73
7.
Water Convention and the European Union: The Benefits of the Convention for EU Member States / Owen McIntyre
88
Part 3. The Regulatory Framework of the Water Convention / Gábor Baranyai
8.
Scope of the UNECE Water Convention / Gábor Baranyai
103
9.
Normative Features of the UNECE Water Convention / Panos Merkouris Malgosia Fitzmaurice
106
Part 4. General Principles of the Convention / Alexandros Kolliopoulos Nataltya Nikfforova Attila Tanzi
10.
No-Harm Rule / Alexandros Kolliopoulos Nataltya Nikfforova Attila Tanzi
133
11.
Principle of Equitable and Reasonable Utilisation / Alexandros Kolliopoulos Attila Tanzi
146
12.
Role of the Precautionary Principle in the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes / Owen McIntyre
160
13.
Polluter-Pays Principle in the 1992 UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes / Nicolas De Sadeleer, Mehdy Abbas Khayli
176
14.
Sustainability Principle / Pierre-Marie Dupuy Leslie Anne Duvic-Paoli
195
Part 5. Tools for Preventing or Mitigating Transboundary Impact / Alistair Rieu-Clarke
15.
Development of Legal Provisions and Measures for Preventing and Reducing Pollution to Transboundary Water Resources under the UNECE Water Convention / Alistair Rieu-Clarke
211
16.
Integrated Water Resources Management as a Tool to Prevent or Mitigate Transboundary Impact / Remy Kinna
228
Part 6. Data Collection and Information Sharing / Heide Jekel
17.
Monitoring and Assessment and the duty of cooperation under the Water Convention: Exchange of Information Among the Riparian Parties / Heide Jekel
251
18.
Public Information and Participation under the Water Convention / Annukka Lipponen Lea Kauppi
268
Part 7. Cooperation and Its Institutional Setting: The Water Convention and the Evolution of Procedural Rules of International Water Law / Serhi Vykhryst
19.
Duty to Cooperation in International Water Law - Examining the Contribution of the UN Water Conventions to Facilitating Transboundary Water Cooperation / Serhi Vykhryst
285
20.
Contribution of the UNECE Water Regime to Transboundary Cooperation in the Danube River Basin / Christina Leb Patricia Wouters
296
21.
Cooperation between Finland and the Russian Federation / Ruby Moynihan
310
Part 8. Compliance, Responsibility, Liability, Dispute Prevention and Settlement / Antti Belinsky
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 / Antti Belinsky
319
23.
2003 Kiev Protocol on Civil Liability and Compensation for Damage Caused by the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents on Transboundary Waters / Attila Tanzi Cristina Contartese
330
Part 9. Select Issues / Phani Dascalopoulou-Livada Alexandros Kolliopoulos
24.
UNECE Water Convention and the Human Right to Access to Water: The Protocol on Water and Health / Alexandros Kolliopoulos Phani Dascalopoulou-Livada
345
25.
UNECE Model Provisions on Transboundary Flood Management / Owen McIntyre
367
26.
International Water Law and Climate Disruption Adaptation / Alexandros Kolliopoulos
379
27.
Advancing Dam Safety in Central Asia: The Contribution of the UNECE Water Convention / A. Dan Tarlock, Vasiliki-Maria Tzatzaki
394
28.
International Water Law Process and Transboundary Groundwater: Supplementing the Water Convention with the 2012 UNECE Model Provisions / Bo Libert Iulia Trombitcaia
408
Part 10. Viewing the Convention from Outside the UNECE / Alexandros Kolliopoulos Attila Tanzi
29.
Water Convention from a North American Perspective / Attila Tanzi Alexandros Kolliopoulos
423
30.
UNECE Water Convention from a Latin American Perspective / Alice Cohen Karen Bakker Emma S. Norman
435
31.
Enhancing China's Transboundary Water Cooperation -What Role for the UNECE Water Convention? / Lilian Del Castillo-Laborde
451
32.
UNECE Water Convention Viewed from the Perspective of the SADC Revised Protocol on Shared Watercourses / Patricia Wouters
466
33.
Potential Guidance from the UNECE Water Convention for the Arab region / Remy Kinna
486
Part 11. The Role of International Financial Institution / Raya Marina Stephan
34.
Environmental Conditionalities and International Funding of Water Works of a Transboundary Relevance / Raya Marina Stephan
503
35.
International Financial Institutions and the Water Convention: Consultations Arrangements / A. Vaughan Lowe
517
Part 12. Conclusions / Salman M.A. Salman
36.
Contribution of the UNECE Water Convention to International Water Law / Salman M.A. Salman
533
Index / Attila Tanzi Owen McIntyre Alexandros Kolliopoulos
541