Water as a human right for the Middle East and North Africa / / edited by Asit K. Biswas, Eglal Rached and Cecilia Tortajada

• Pubblicazione: London, : Routledge, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (202 p.)
• Disciplina: 341.483
• Soggetto topico: Water rights - Middle East; Water rights - Africa, North; Human rights - Middle East; Human rights - Africa, North
• Altri autori: BiswasAsit K RachedEglal TortajadaCecilia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; 1 Water as a Human Right in the MENA Region: Challenges and Opportunities; 2 Human Rights to Water in North Africa and the Middle East: What is New and What is Not; What is Important and What is Not; 3 Right to Water: The Millennium Development Goals and Water in the MENA Region; 4 The Right to Water; 5 Water as a Human Right: The Palestinian Occupied Territories as an Example; 6 Water as a Human Right: The Understanding of Water Rights in Palestine; 7 Water as a Human Right: Towards Civil Society Globalization ; 8 Actualizing the Right to Water: An Egyptian Perspective for an Action Plan 9 Accountability and Rights in Right-based Approaches for Local Water Governance; 10 Towards a Human Rights Approach to Water in Lebanon: Implementation beyond 'Reform'; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation is essential for human survival and for maintenance of a decent quality of life. Currently, more than a billion people do not have access to safe drinking water and more than 2 billion people lack proper sanitation. In 1992, the United Nations proclaimed that water should be considered to be a human right. This position, however, has not been accepted by many developed and developing countries. This book systematically and comprehensively analyses the legal development of the concept of water as a human right:. Implications for national
• Titolo autorizzato: Water as a human right for the Middle East and North Africa
• ISBN: 1-281-72806-3; 9786611728069; 1-55250-380-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910806229103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia.