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Oxford The Law of International Watercourses 2019 Edition by Stephen C. McCaffrey
The Law of International Watercourses is an authoritative guide to the rules of international law governing the navigational and non-navigational uses of international rivers, lakes, and groundwater. The continued growth of the world's population places increasing demands on Earth's finite supplies of fresh water. Because two or more States share many of the world's most important drainage basins - including the Danube, the Ganges, the Indus, the Jordan, theMekong, the Nile, the Rhine and the Tigris-Euphrates - competition for increasingly scarce fresh water resources will only increase. Agreements between the States sharing international watercourses are negotiated, and disputes over shared water are resolved, against the backdrop of the rules of internationallaw governing the use of this precious resource. The basic legal rules governing the use of shared freshwater for purposes other than navigation are reflected in the 1997 UN Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses. This book devotes a chapter to the 1997 Convention but also examines the factual and legal context in which the Convention should be understood, considers the more important rules of the Convention in some depth, and discusses specific issues that could not be addressed in a frameworkinstrument of that kind. The book reviews the major cases and controversies concerning international watercourses as a background against which to consider the basic substantive and procedural rights and obligations of States in the field.The third edition covers the implications of the 1997 Convention coming into force in August 2014, and the compatibility of the 1997 and 1992 Conventions. This edition also updates the entire book, adds new material to many of the chapters, and adds a number of new case studies, including Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina v. Uruguay) and Certain Activities carried out by Nicaragua in the Border Area (Costa Rica v. Nicaragua), amongst others. Table of contents : - Part I. Introduction1: Human Use of Fresh Water and the Coming Era of Water Scarcity2: The Concept of the International Watercourse SystemPart II. Evolution and Theoretical Bases of the Law of International Watercourses3: The Evolution of the Law of International Watercourses4: Theoretical Bases of International Watercourse Law: An Examination of the Four Principal Theories5: The Contribution of the Law of NavigationPart III. The Major Cases and Controversies: A Survey of State Practice6: The Major Cases7: Selected Case StudiesPart IV. Fundamental Rights and Obligations8: Introduction: The 1997 United Nations Convention and Its PrecursorsA. Substantive Obligations9: Equitable and Reasonable Utilization10: The Obligation to Prevent Harm to Other Riparian States11: The Obligation to Protect International Watercourses and Their EcosystemsB. Procedural Obligations12: Procedural ObligationsC. Groundwater13: The Special Case of GroundwaterD. Dispute Avoidance and Settlement14: Dispute Avoidance and Settlement: Selected Aspects