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Legal rights for rivers - Competition, collaboration and water governance

Author
O'Donnell E.
Date
2018
Source
IUCN (ID: MON-094338)
Publisher | Place of publication
Routledge | London, UK
ISBN
9781138603257
Pages
202 p.
Document type
Monography/book
Language
English
Field of application
International
Subject
Water
Keyword
Freshwater resources management Governance
Abstract

1. Introduction 2. Constructing the environment in law: making it count 3. Environmental Water Managers: examples of indirect legal personhood for rivers 4. Just another user: environmental water managers in Australia 5. Partnership as success: the EWMs of the Western USA 6. Competing narratives and the paradox of the EWMs 7. Rivers as legal persons: competition and collaboration 8. Legal rights for rivers: a cause for celebration or concern?

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