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Community-Based Water Law and Water Resource Management Reform in Developing Countries
CABI 2007; US$ 150.00Shows how bringing together the strengths of community-based laws rooted in user participation and the formalized legal systems of the public sector, water management regimes will be able to reach their goals. more...
International Water Treaties
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 155.00As demand for fresh water rises, together with population, water scarcity already features on the national security agenda of many countries. In this book, Dinardevelops a theory to explain solutions to property rights conflicts over shared rivers. Through systematic analysis of available treaty texts, corresponding side-payment and cost-sharing patterns... more...
Inhalts- und Schrankenbestimmungen des Grundeigentums zum Schutz der natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen: Das Verhältnis von Art. 14 Abs. 1 und 2 GG zu Art. 20a GG (Bibliothek des Eigentums) (German Edition)
Springer 2008; US$ 99.99Grundeigentum und Umweltschutz stehen sich bisweilen konfliktreich gegenüber. Nahezu jede Eigentumsbeeinträchtigung kann mit Verweis auf den Schutz der natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen als Staatsziel gerechtfertigt werden. Dadurch droht der verfassungsrechtliche Eigentumsschutz leer zu laufen. Die Untersuchung des Verhältnisses zwischen Art. 14 Abs. 1... more...
Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas
Springer 2008; US$ 179.99Offers an analysis of the Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas (PSSA) guidelines and protective measures available in PSSAs. This book focuses on their legal basis and the implications for coastal states' jurisdiction over vessel-source pollution. more...
Biodiversity Conservation, Law and Livelihoods
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 60.00The IUCN Academy presents a broad range of global perspectives on biodiversity conservation and the maintenance of sustainable cultures. more...
The Evolution of the Law and Politics of Water
Springer 2009; US$ 139.99Presents an overview of global trends in water law and policy and assesses global water governance. This book provides an understanding of how and why after 5,000 years of water governance, that governance has not reached stability. more...
A Dual Approach to Ocean Governance
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 134.95A Dual Approach to Ocean Governance addresses the validity and limits of the zonal and integrated management approaches to ocean governance in international law of the sea. This study will be of particular value to those with an interest in international law, environmental law and natural resources and conservation. more...
Exploiting the Limits of Law
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 124.95This book represents a challenge to both Swedish dogmatism and feminist pessimism and, more generally, to the concept of the limits of law: it includes essays which consider the issue of law's limits in a purely theoretical way, as well as essays which investigate the changing legal and policy environments in a more practical setting. more...
The Classic Social Contractarians
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 114.95Analysing the social contract theorists through the lens of contemporary feminist philosophy, this work focuses on the relationship between the 'self' and the law and examines how social contractarians have viewed this relationship. more...
Regulatory Frameworks for Water Resources Management
World Bank Publications 2006; US$ 29.99This title examines how regulatory frameworks have addressed the various basic issues related to water resources management, and provides a comparative analysis of those issues. It elicits and discusses what it considers are the essential elements for a regulatory framework for water resources management, and identifies some emerging trends. more...









