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Reveals the diverse ways people are using the law to restore rivers in the western United States and around the world.
List of contents
Foreword; Introduction: Publicum Ius Aquae; 1. Instream Rights and the Public Trust; 2. Instream Rights and Unreasonable Use; 3. Instream Rights and Dams; 4. Instream Rights and Watershed Governance; 5. Instream Rights as Federal Law Recedes; 6. Instream Rights as Water Temperatures Rise; 7. Instream Rights as Sea Levels Rise; 8. Instream Rights and Groundwater Extraction; 9. Instream Rights and Old Canals; 10. Instream Rights and Water as an Investment; 11. Instream Rights and International Law; 12. Instream Rights and Irrigation Subsidies; 13. Instream Rights and Pacific Salmon; 14. Instream Rights and Hatchery Fish; 15. Instream Rights as Indigenous Rights; Conclusion: Policy Disconnected from Science; Attributions; Index.
About the author
Paul Stanton Kibel is Professor at Golden Gate University School of Law and Director of its Center on Urban Environmental Law. He has also taught Water Policy in the West at Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, and water law at Berkeley Law School. He is natural resource counsel to the Water and Power Law Group, and his previous books include The Earth on Trial: Environmental Law on the International Stage (1998) and Rivertown: Rethinking Urban Rivers (2007).
Summary
Riverflow reveals the sources of domestic and international law that support the right to keep water instream, and provides real world stories of how these sources of law can be put to use to restore rivers and fisheries.
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'Riverflow carefully analyses, among other matters, the myriad conflicts which have arisen from the often massive impact of water development on lakes and rivers, and the species they support. The book considers instream rights in a variety of contexts, both in the US and elsewhere, and it also reviews instream water use where rights are not an issue. Riverflow is a 'must read' for anyone who cares about instream flows.' Harrison C. Dunning, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of California, Davis, School of Law
