The UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes : Its Contribution to International Water Cooperation.

Intro -- The UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes: Its Contribution to International Water Cooperation -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- PART 1: Development and Evolution of the Convention -- 1: Remarks on the Drafting History of the Convention -- 2: From a Regional towards a Global Instrument - The 2003 Amendment to the UNECE Water Convention -- 3: The Normative and Institutional Evolution of the Convention -- PART 2: The Water Convention and Other Multilateral Environmental Agreements -- 4: The 1997 UN Convention: Compatibility and Complementarity -- 5: The UNECE Water Convention and Multilateral Environmental Agreements -- 6: The Water Convention and other UNECE Environmental Treaties -- 7: The Water Convention and the European Union: The Benefits of the Convention for EU Member States -- PART 3: The Regulatory Framework of the Water Convention -- 8: Scope of the UNECE Water Convention -- 9: Normative Features of the UNECE Water Convention -- PART 4: General Principles of the Convention -- 10: The No-Harm Rule -- 11: The Principle of Equitable and Reasonable Utilisation -- 12: The Role of the Precautionary Principle in the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes -- 13: The Polluter-Pays Principle in the 1992 UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes -- 14: The Sustainability Principle -- PART 5: Tools for Preventing or Mitigating Transboundary Impact -- The Development of Legal Provisions and Measures for Preventing and Reducing Pollution to Transboundary Water Resources under th -- 16: Integrated Water Resources Management as a Tool to Prevent or Mitigate Transboundary Impact -- PART 6: Data Collection and Information Sharing.

17: Monitoring and Assessment and the duty of cooperation under the Water Convention: Exchange of Information Among the Riparian Parties -- 18: Public Information and Participation under the Water Convention -- PART 7: Cooperation and Its Institutional Setting: The Water Convention and the Evolution of Procedural Rules of International Water Law -- 19: The Duty to Cooperation in International Water Law - Examining the Contribution of the UN Water Conventions to Facilitating Transboundary Water Cooperation -- 20: The Contribution of the UNECE Water Regime to Transboundary Cooperation in the Danube River Basin -- 21: Cooperation between Finland and the Russian Federation -- PART 8: Compliance, Responsibility, Liability, Dispute Prevention and Settlement -- 22: 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 -- 23: The 2003 Kiev Protocol on Civil Liability and Compensation for Damage Caused by the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents on Transboundary Waters -- PART 9: Select Issues -- 24: The UNECE Water Convention and the Human Right to Access to Water: The Protocol on Water and Health -- 25: The UNECE Model Provisions on Transboundary Flood Management -- 26: International Water Law and Climate Disruption Adaptation -- 27: Advancing Dam Safety in Central Asia: The Contribution of the UNECE Water Convention -- 28: The International Water Law Process and Transboundary Groundwater: Supplementing the Water Convention with the 2012 UNECE Model Provisions -- PART 10: Viewing the Convention from Outside the UNECE -- 29: The Water Convention from a North American Perspective -- 30: The UNECE Water Convention from a Latin American Perspective.

31: Enhancing China's Transboundary Water Cooperation - What Role for the UNECE Water Convention? -- 32: The UNECE Water Convention Viewed from the Perspective of the SADC Revised Protocol on Shared Watercourses -- 33: Potential Guidance from the UNECE Water Convention for the Arab region -- PART 11: The Role of International Financial Institutions -- 34: Environmental Conditionalities and International Funding of Water Works of a Transboundary Relevance -- 35: International Financial Institutions and the Water Convention: Consultations Arrangements -- PART 12: Conclusions -- 36: The Contribution of the UNECE Water Convention to International Water Law -- Index.

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.

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