Procedural rules of international water law and the imminent challenges of the ecosystem approach

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dc.contributor.authorMcIntyre, Owen
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-14T10:59:39Z
dc.date.available2020-10-14T10:59:39Z
dc.date.issued2020-10-08
dc.date.updated2020-10-14T10:48:26Z
dc.description.abstractAs the normative implications of emerging obligations to protect and preserve the ecosystems of transboundary watercourses become more clearly understood, the established procedural rules of international water law will be severely challenged. The current procedural rules and mechanisms, which have evolved to facilitate effective inter-State engagement regarding economic utilisation of shared waters, will struggle to accommodate key elements of the so-called “ecosystem approach”, including emerging obligations regarding environmental flows and the ecosystem services paradigm. In particular, the established rules will prove unequal to the procedural requirements of adaptive management techniques for maintaining ecological resilience, of broad and meaningful stakeholder and public participation in decision-making, and of complex benefit-sharing arrangements to ensure optimal and sustainable utilisation of shared water resources. While the ecosystem approach holds great promise for the resolution of inter-State water disputes, it is increasingly apparent that the procedural rules and mechanisms of international water law will need to shift away from one-time inter-State communication processes conducted in anticipation of planned water-related developments, and towards more sophisticated continuing procedural engagement focused on ensuring the optimal and sustainable functioning of valuable watercourse ecosystems.en
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dc.identifier.citationMcIntyre, O. (2020) 'Procedural rules of international water law and the imminent challenges of the ecosystem approach', in Ruiz Fabri, H., Franckx, E., Benatar, M. and Meshel, T. (eds) A Bridge over Troubled Waters: Dispute Resolution in the Law of International Watercourses and the Law of the Sea. Leiden: Brill Nijhoff, 32pp. doi: 10.1163/9789004434950_013en
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/9789004434950_013
dc.identifier.isbn978-90-04-36572-8
dc.identifier.isbn978-90-04-43495-0
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10656
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherBrill Nijhoffen
dc.relation.ispartofA Bridge over Troubled Waters Dispute Resolution in the Law of International Watercourses and the Law of the Sea
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.1163/9789004434950
dc.rightsCopyright 2021, Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. All rights reserved.en
dc.subjectProcedural rules of international water lawen
dc.subjectEcosystem approachen
dc.subjectEnvironmental flowsen
dc.subjectEcosystems servicesen
dc.subjectPESen
dc.subjectAdaptive managementen
dc.subjectStakeholder / public participationen
dc.subjectBenefit-sharingen
dc.titleProcedural rules of international water law and the imminent challenges of the ecosystem approachen
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