ABSTRACT
Governance of global water resources presents one of the most confounding challenges in contemporary natural resource governance. With considerable government, citizen and financial donor attention devoted to a range of international, transnational and domestic laws and policies aimed at protecting, managing and sustainably using fresh and coastal marine water resources, this book proposes that sustainable water outcomes require a ‘trans-jurisdictional’ approach to water governance.
Focusing on the concept of trans-jurisdictional water governance the book diagnoses barriers and identifies pathways to coherent and coordinated institutional arrangements between and across different bodies of laws at local, national, regional and international levels. It includes case studies from the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the United States and Southeast Asia. Leading specialists offer insights into the pretence and the promise of trans-jurisdictional water governance and provide readers, including students, practitioners, policy-makers and academics, with a basis for better analysing, articulating and synthesising standards of good trans-jurisdictional water governance both in theory and in practice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |18 pages
Introduction
part |80 pages
Trans-jurisdictional water law governance
chapter |20 pages
Critical linkages
part |93 pages
Trans-jurisdictional water law and governance
chapter |19 pages
Beyond the traditional governance of trans-jurisdictional groundwater
chapter |17 pages
The flow of laws
part |108 pages
Emerging challenges in trans-jurisdictional water law and governance
chapter |19 pages
Diffuse source pollution and water quality law for the Great Barrier Reef
chapter |26 pages
Trans-jurisdictional water law and governance in the context of unconventional gas mining
chapter |20 pages
Protecting coastal wetlands in a changing climate
chapter |22 pages
Contests over ‘wild' rivers in Queensland
part |15 pages
Conclusion