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This work provides an overview of the various legal responses to conflicts involving the use of water resources and analyses the continuous development of water law in the face of new threats of water shortages. Water scarcity is a matter of growing concern for human populations and ecosystems worldwide. The distinguished team of contributors analyse the nature of the problem of water scarcity, international water law, legal and policy responses to water scarcity in selected regions and the emergence of a new body of economic water law. The contributions reveal the diverse and dynamic development of water law and the interaction between the legal and policy responses on the international, regional and national level.
This book is the result of the conference Scarcity of Water: International, European and National Legal Aspects held at the Faculty of Law of the Erasmus University Rotterdam in October 1995. It contains a selection of the papers presented at the conference and several additional contributions from experts in the field of water law and policy.
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This book focuses on liability for damage to those natural resources that are of interest to the public and are protected by national, European or international law. It provides an overview of the law of the United States and of certain EU Member States on the recovery of damages for injury to natural resources.
The international civil liability conventions that cover environmental harm and the recently published European Commission''s White Paper on environmental liability are also discussed. The on-going development in various international forums of treaties or protocols dealing with liability for environmental damage are analyzed, as are the principles developed by the UNEP Working Group established in response to the 1990 Gulf War to advise the UNCC on claims for damage to natural resources.
The book addresses assessment and valuation issues, the issue of standing in cases of injury to (un)owned natural resources, and the determination of ways to repair, restore and compensate for natural resource injuries and the associated loss of ecological and human services. It also explains why such a difference exists between the US and most European jurisdictions and inter-national liability conventions as to the recovery of damages for injury to natural resources.