Tackling the global water crisis: Unlocking international law as fundamental to the peaceful management of the world’s shared transboundary waters–introducing the H2O paradigm

Water Resources Planning and Management

Volumn 9780521762588, Issue , 2011, Pages 175-229

  Wouters, Patricia ^a   Ziganshina, Dinara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS; DISPUTE SETTLEMENT; INTERNATIONAL WATERS; SCENE SETTINGS; TRANSBOUNDARY WATER; TRANSBOUNDARY WATERCOURSE; WATER INSECURITY; WATER SECURITY;

EID: 84890308756     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511974304.012     Document Type: Chapter

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