By Bruce Lankford, Karen Bakker, Mark Zeitoun, Declan Conway
The objective of this publication is to present an outline of the most recent learn, coverage, practitioner, educational and overseas pondering on water security—an factor that, like water governance many years in the past, has constructed a lot coverage expertise and momentum with quite a lot of stakeholders. As an idea it truly is open to a number of interpretations, and the authors the following set out some of the techniques to the subject from diversified perspectives.
Key subject matters addressed contain:
- Water protection as a overseas coverage factor
- The interconnected variables of water, meals, and human safety
- Dimensions except military and diplomacy issues round water protection
- Water safeguard theory and tools, instruments and audits.
The ebook is loosely in keeping with a masters point measure plus a brief specialist direction on water protection either given at the University of East Anglia, added via foreign professionals on their topics. it's going to function an introductory textbook in addition to be of price to pros, NGOs, and policy-makers.
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The UN General Assembly’s adoption of the Legal Framework of the Human Right to water, for instance, supports the idea of access to safe water for all and is, very much in theory, a step towards greater individual water security. The 1997 UN Watercourses Convention builds on the Agenda 21 process to reinforce notions of justice and sustainability, and is developing the useful concept of limited territorial sovereignty (McCaffrey, 2007; McIntyre, 2010), which may serve eventually to reach the ‘community of interests’ approach required to reconcile the dissonance between river basin boundaries and political borders.
Access: through enforceable rights to water for the broad range of stakeholders 3. Addressing conflicts-of-use: where there are conflicts-of-use arising from inadequate availability and/or access to transboundary water resources, these are to be resolved through dispute prevention and settlement mechanisms Addressing these issues within transboundary water agreements goes a long way towards enhancing the potential for achieving water security. At the regional and global levels, international water law provides an identifiable The Water Security Paradox and International Law 29 body of treaty and customary norms and practices that regulate interactions among states, between states and international organizations, and, to some extent, between nation-states and people under their jurisdiction and control.
Research into the development of international norms may serve the cause of justice and sustainable water security. The groundbreaking work of environmental and social activists has been impressive, and has been strengthened by developments in international law that may eventually find their way into policy. The UN General Assembly’s adoption of the Legal Framework of the Human Right to water, for instance, supports the idea of access to safe water for all and is, very much in theory, a step towards greater individual water security.