Riverflow - The Right to Keep Water Instream

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.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Stanton Kibel, Kibel Paul Stanton
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781108927765
• ISBN: 978-1-108-92776-5
• No. of pages: 310
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Environmental, LAW / Agricultural, LAW / Natural Resources, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Fisheries & Aquaculture, Public International Law, Environment law, Fisheries & Related Industries, Fisheries and related industries, Energy & natural resources law, Energy and natural resources law, agricultural law, Agricultural Law / Fisheries Law