The UN Watercourses Convention in force : strengthening international law for transboundary water management / edited by Flavia Rocha Loures and Alistair Rieu-Clarke.
"At the UN General Assembly in 1997, an overwhelming majority of States voted for the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses - a global overarching framework governing the rights and duties of States sharing freshwater sys...
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| Other title: | United Nations Watercourses Convention in force. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon :
Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group,
[2013]
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| Summary: | "At the UN General Assembly in 1997, an overwhelming majority of States voted for the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses - a global overarching framework governing the rights and duties of States sharing freshwater systems. Globally, there are 263 internationally shared watersheds, which drain the territories of 145 countries and represent more than forty percent of the Earth's land surface. Hence, inter-State cooperation towards the sustainable management of transboundary water supplies, in accordance with applicable international legal instruments, is a topic of crucial importance, especially in the context of the current global water crisis."--Provided by publisher. |
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| Item Description: | "Earthscan from Routledge." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 373 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781136484384 1136484388 1299852505 9781299852501 9781136484391 1136484396 9780203135365 0203135369 9781136484346 1136484345 9781138573925 1138573922 |