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Record Nr.

UNINA9910493700403321

Autore

Szwedo Piotr

Titolo

Cross-border water trade : : legal and interdisciplinary perspectives / / Piotr Szwedo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, MA : , : Brill, , 2018

ISBN

90-04-38289-5

90-04-38115-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (402 pages)

Disciplina

346.04691

Soggetti

Water transfer - Law and legislation

Water rights (International law)

Water - Law and legislation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Questions -- In Search of a Regulatory Model -- Water as an Article of Trade in Wto Law -- Water Trade in the International Practice of States -- Principles and Institutions of International Law as Conditions of and Restrictions on Water Trade -- Ending Notes.

Sommario/riassunto

Cross-border Water Trade: Legal and Interdisciplinary Perspectives is a critical assessment of one of the growing problems faced by the international community — the global water deficit. Cross-border water trade is a solution that generates ethical and economic but also legal challenges. Economic, humanitarian and environmental approaches each highlight different and sometimes conflicting aspects of the international commercialization of water. Finding an equilibrium for all the dimensions required an interdisciplinary path incorporating certain perspectives of natural law. The significance of such theoretical underpinnings is not merely academic but also quite practical, with concrete consequences for the legal status of water and its fitness for international trade.