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International Water Law and the Quest for Common Security (Hardcover)
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International Water Law and the Quest for Common Security (Hardcover)
Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
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The world's freshwater supplies are increasingly threatened by
rapidly increasing demand and the impacts of global climate change,
but current approaches to transboundary water management are
unsustainable and may threaten future global stability and
international security. The absence of law in attempts to address
this issue highlights the necessity for further understanding from
the legal perspective. This book provides a fresh conceptualisation
of water security, developing an operational methodology for
identifying the four core elements of water security which must be
addressed by international law: availability; access; adaptability;
and ambit. The analysis of the legal framework of transboundary
freshwater management based on this contemporary understanding of
water security reveals the challenges and shortcomings of the
current legal regime. In order to address these shortcomings, the
present mindset of prevailing rigidity and state-centrism is
challenged by examining how international legal instruments could
be crafted to advance a more flexible and common approach towards
transboundary water interaction. The concept of considering water
security as a matter of 'regional common concern' is introduced to
help international law play a more prominent role in addressing the
challenges of global water insecurity. Ways for implementing such
an approach are proposed and analysed by looking at international
hydropolitics in Himalayan Asia. The book analyses transboundary
water interaction as a 'case study' for advancing public
international law in order to fulfil its responsibility of
promoting international peace and security.
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