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Freshwater and international law: the interplay between universal, regional and basin perspectives

This paper focuses on some of the characteristics of the latest developments concerning international freshwater resources law by looking at the interplay of norms adopted at three levels where important new instruments have been adopted: the universal, regional and basin levels. The first part of the paper focuses on instruments adopted at the universal level, such as the United Nations Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses and the International Law Commission Draft Articles on the Law of Transboundary Aquifers. The second part deals with the development of laws at the regional and basin levels.

01 jan. 2016

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