Fresh Water and International Economic Law

NOTE EDITORE

Fresh water resources are at the same time ecological, economic, social, and cultural goods and must be managed accordingly. However, efforts to manage these resources are complicated by tensions arising from possible clashes between the regimes favouring privatization, trade and investment liberalization, and domestic and international regimes governing water resources, environmental protection and human rights. The relationships between the international economic and legal framework on the one hand and fresh water resource management and protection on the other, are complex and multifaceted. This book addresses the key interdisciplinary issues that increasingly confront policy makers, tribunals, arbitration bodies and other institutions. It focuses primarily on law, but also includes perspectives from economics, political science and other disciplines. It examines such questions as are governments free to decide whether or not to export water resources? Can foreign investors sue host states for adopting measures to control water pollution? Can international trade rules be used to reduce or eliminate water related subsidies? Do rules on the liberalization of water services affect domestic and international human rights obligations relating to water supply? More generally, how do the procedural rights of states, individuals, affected communities and investors affect decisions regarding the right to drinking water, the rights of investors to exploit water resources, and the rights of governments to protect their lakes, rivers and groundwater?

SOMMARIO

1 - Cooperation or Confrontation: Sustainable Water Use in an International Context 2 - Water Transfers: A Means to Achieve Sustainable Water Use 3 - Water Transfers and International Trade Law 4 - The Human Right to Water 5 - Water Services at the WTO 6 - GATS and its Impact on Private Sector Participation in Water Services 7 - Economics of Water Services and the Right to Water 8 - Ground Water Regulation and Water Crisis Rhetoric: Syria as a Case Study 9 - Water, Agriculture and Subsidies in the International Trading System 10 - Water-Related Investment: A European Perspective 11 - International Investment Rules and Water: Learning from the NAFTA Experience 12 - Water Concession and Protection of Foreign Investments Under International Law 13 - Local Communities and Water Investments 14 - Water and Economics: Trends in Dispute Settlement Procedures and Practice 15 - Transparency, Public Participation and Amicus Curiae in Water Disputes

AUTORE

Edith Brown Weiss is Francis Cabell Brown Professor of International Law at Georgetown University, Washington DC. Laurence Boisson de Chazournes is Head of the Department of Public International Law and International Organisation in the Faculty of Law at the University of Geneva. Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder is a Managing Attorney at the Geneva Office of the Centre for International Environmental Law.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199274673
• Collana: International Economic Law Series
• Dimensioni: 242 x 32.9 x 164 mm Ø 907 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: Maps and line drawings
• Pagine Arabe: 512