The UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes : : its contribution to international water cooperation / / edited by Attila Tanzi, Owen McIntyre, Alexandros Kolliopoulos, Alistair Rieu-Clarke, Rémy Kinna.

• Superior document: International water law series ; v. 4
• TeilnehmendeR: Tanzi, Attila.; McIntyre, Owen.; Kolliopoulos, Alexandros.; Rieu-Clarke, Alistair.; Kinna, Rémy.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Nijhoff,, [2015]
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: International Water Law Series 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (575 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes provides invaluable insights into the contribution of this international agreement towards transboundary water cooperation via its legal provisions, accompanying institutional arrangements and subsidiary policy mechanisms. Contributing authors - experts on key aspects of the Convention - address a broad range of issues, primarily concerning its: development and evolution; relationship with other multi-lateral agreements; regulatory framework and general principles; tools for arresting transboundary pollution; procedural rules; compliance and liability provisions; and select issues including its Protocol on Water and Health.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Attila Tanzi , Owen McIntyre , Alexandros Kolliopoulos , Alistair Rieu-Clarke and Rémy Kinna -- Remarks on the Drafting History of the Convention / Alistair Rieu-Clarke -- From a Regional towards a Global Instrument – The 2003 Amendment to the UNECE Water Convention / Iulia Trombitcaia and Sonja Koeppel -- The Normative and Institutional Evolution of the Convention / Francesca Bernardini -- The 1997 UN Convention: Compatibility and Complementarity / Stephen Mccaffrey -- The UNECE Water Convention and Multilateral Environmental Agreements / Laurence Boisson De Charzournes , Christina Leb and Mara Tignino -- The Water Convention and other UNECE Environmental Treaties / Owen Mcintyre -- The Water Convention and the European Union: The Benefits of the Convention for EU Member States / Gábor Baranyai -- Scope of the UNECE Water Convention / Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Panos Merkouris -- Normative Features of the UNECE Water Convention / Attila Tanzi , Alexandros Kolliopoulos and Nataliya Nikiforova -- The No-Harm Rule / Attila Tanzi and Alexandros Kolliopoulos -- The Principle of Equitable and Reasonable Utilisation / Owen Mcintyre -- The Role of the Precautionary Principle in the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes / Nicolas De Sadeleer and Mehdy Abbas Khayli -- The Polluter-Pays Principle in the 1992 UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes / Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli and Pierre-Marie Dupuy -- The Sustainability Principle / Alistair Rieu-Clarke -- The Development of Legal Provisions and Measures for Preventing and Reducing Pollution to Transboundary Water Resources under the UNECE Water Convention / Rémy Kinna -- Integrated Water Resources Management as a Tool to Prevent or Mitigate Transboundary Impact / Heide Jekel -- Monitoring and Assessment and the duty of cooperation under the Water Convention: Exchange of Information Among the Riparian Parties / Annukka Lipponen and Lea Kauppi -- Public Information and Participation under the Water Convention / Serhiy Vykhryst -- The Duty to Cooperation in International Water Law – Examining the Contribution of the UN Water Conventions to Facilitating Transboundary Water Cooperation / Patricia Wouters and Christina Leb -- The Contribution of the UNECE Water Regime to Transboundary Cooperation in the Danube River Basin / Ruby Moynihan -- Cooperation between Finland and the Russian Federation / Antti Belinskij -- Dispute Prevention, Dispute Settlement and Implementation Facilitation in International Water Law: The Added Value of the Establishment of an Implementation Mechanism under the Water Convention / Attila Tanzi and Cristina Contartese -- The 2003 Kiev Protocol on Civil Liability and Compensation for Damage Caused by the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents on Transboundary Waters / Phani Dascalopoulou-Livada and Alexandros Kolliopoulos -- The UNECE Water Convention and the Human Right to Access to Water: The Protocol on Water and Health / Owen Mcintyre -- The UNECE Model Provisions on Transboundary Flood Management / Alexandros Kolliopoulos.