Transboundary Freshwater Ecosystems in International Law - The Role and Impact of the Unece Environmental Regime

List of contents

1. The role of international law in addressing the global freshwater ecosystem crisis; 2. Conceptualising the UNECE water and environmental regime - establishing the basis for coherent interpretation and institutional interaction; 3. Contemporary status of international law on transboundary freshwater ecosystems; 4. The common normative framework of the UNECE environmental regime and its contribution to international water law; 5. An ecosystem approach in international law concerning transboundary freshwater ecosystem; 6. Public participation - its contribution to procedural justice and intra-generational equity in a water scarce future; 7. River basin organisations, basin agreements and European environmental law in the UNECE regime; 8. Transboundary freshwater ecosystems in international law: The role, impact and future of the UNECE environmental regime.

About the author

Ruby Moynihan is an Irish Research Council Fellow at the School of Law, University College Cork, Ireland and Adjunct Lecturer/Senior Research Fellow at the New Zealand Centre for Public Law, Victoria University of Wellington. She is also an Enrolled Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. Her work has contributed to high-level projects for the United Nations and other international organisations.

Summary

Despite warnings that we are teetering on the brink of widespread freshwater ecosystem collapse, we do have a small window of opportunity and the tools to recover. This book explores the role and limits of our international legal architecture in getting us there.

Product details

• Authors: Ruby Moynihan, Ruby (University College Cork) Moynihan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781108490702
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49070-2
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Environmental, International Relations, International Law, Public International Law, International Environmental Law, Public international law: environment, International Organisations & Institutions