Legal Rights for Rivers - Competition, Collaboration and Water Governance

Summary

Four rivers, in New Zealand, India and Colombia, have recently been given the status of legal persons. To assess what it means to give rivers legal rights and legal personality, this book examines the form and function of environmental water managers, organizations with legal personality, using the USA and Australia as examples.

Product details

• Authors: Erin O'Donnell, Erin O''donnell
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.11.2018
• EAN: 9781138603257
• ISBN: 978-1-138-60325-7
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; NATURE / Ecology, LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, LAW / Environmental, LAW / Educational Law & Legislation, Politics & government, Environmental Economics, Environmental Management, Politics and government, Physical geography & topography, Environmental policy & protocols, Human Geography, Environment law, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Water industries, Limnology (Freshwater)