New approaches for international water resources

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dc.contributor.authorMcIntyre, Owen
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-28T09:10:16Z
dc.date.available2021-06-28T09:10:16Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-21
dc.date.updated2021-06-28T08:35:09Z
dc.description.abstractAs a body of rules and a basis for inter-State cooperative practice, international water law suffers from certain important shortcomings. Most significantly, it is characterised by substantive normative indeterminacy, and from related deficiencies in its associated procedural and institutional frameworks, which retard its progressive development and limit its capacity to respond to the looming challenges of the impending global water crisis. Though it has evolved progressively in recent years to incorporate a far-reaching obligation upon watercourse States to adopt an ecosystem approach to the management of shared watercourses, this very development highlights international water lawâ s systemic difficulty in accommodating water management techniques which are critically important to effective implementation of such an approach and, ultimately, to addressing the water crisis. Such techniques, with which international water law struggles, include multifaceted benefit-sharing, adaptive management, and public and stakeholder participation. The latter two are considered essential for implementation of an ecosystem approach, while the former comprises a cooperative technique facilitated by an ecosystem approach, by means of which watercourse States might eliminate inefficiencies and ensure optimal utilisation of shared water resources. These problems illustrate the urgent imperative of continuing to develop and refine, if not completely reimagine, the rules of international water law.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationMcIntyre, O. (2021) 'New approaches for international water resources', Environmental Policy and Law, 51(1-2), pp. 43-55. doi: 10.3233/EPL-219006en
dc.identifier.doi10.3233/EPL-219006en
dc.identifier.endpage55en
dc.identifier.issn0378-777X
dc.identifier.issued1-2en
dc.identifier.journaltitleEnvironmental Policy and Lawen
dc.identifier.startpage43en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/11497
dc.identifier.volume51en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherIOS Pressen
dc.rights© 2021, Owen McIntyre. Published by IOS Press. The definitive, peer-reviewed and edited version of this article is published in Environmental Policy and Law, 51(1-2), pp. 43-55, doi: 10.3233/EPL-219006, available at IOS Press through https://dx.doi.org/10.3233/EPL-219006en
dc.subjectAdaptive managementen
dc.subjectBenefit-sharingen
dc.subjectEcosystem approachen
dc.subjectPublic participationen
dc.titleNew approaches for international water resourcesen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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