Frameworks for Water Law Reform

This book develops an analytical framework for water law reform, using case studies across four jurisdictions, for academics, students and policy makers.

List of contents

1. Policy context; 2. Integrated water resource management and river basin planning; 3. Water rights and allocation; 4. Water pollution and water quality; 5. Governance and regulation of water services; 6. General conclusions; References; Index.

About the author

Sarah Hendry is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Dundee in the Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, a Category 2 Centre under the auspices of UNESCO, where she specialises in comparative national water law, with special expertise in EU and Scots water and environmental law. She is Director of the Centre's taught programmes and Advisor of Studies for its research students, as well as guest lecturer in water and environmental law at UNESCO IHE in Delft, The Netherlands. Her interests extend across both water resources and water services, and she sits on the Scottish Customer Forum, a new body to better represent consumers in price setting for water services.

Summary

Addressing the four principal areas of water law, this timely book designs and develops an original, analytical framework for water law reform processes, using case studies from four different jurisdictions. Ideal for academics and students in environmental law and resource management, as well as policy makers and NGOs.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Hendry, Sarah (University of Dundee) Hendry, Hendry Sarah
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781108446730
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44673-0
• No. of pages: 148
• Series: International Hydrology Series; International Hydrology; International Hydrology Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Hydrology, comparative law, Hydrology & the hydrosphere, Water supply & treatment, Environment law, International Environmental Law, Hydrology and the hydrosphere, Geology & The Lithosphere, Water industries, Energy and natural resources law