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"Contents" [2017] ELECD 1467; in Hollo, J. Erkki (ed), "Water Resource Management and the Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) v

Book Title: Water Resource Management and the Law

Editor(s): Hollo, J. Erkki

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781785369827

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents
List of contributors vii
Acknowledgements xi

Introduction: the concept and traditions of water management law 1
Erkki J. Hollo

PART I THE ROLE OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LAW IN THE
CONTEXT OF WATER ALLOCATION

1 Common law and public domain approaches to water
governance ­ an Australian perspective 21
Douglas Fisher
2 A comparison of constitutional provisions on water-related
rights in Southern African states 68
Ed Couzens and Meda Couzens
3 Private and public ownership of water areas ­ structures and
implications of the Finnish model 98
Pekka Vihervuori
4 Human right to water: Argentine cases, human rights ­ are they
enforceable? 118
Maria Onestini
5 Struggle for water rights between the natives and the European
settlers: a case study of Njoro Kubwa Springs (1947­56) 131
Ezekiel Nyangeri Nyanchaga

PART II MODELS OF WATER ALLOCATION

6 Towards a sustainable, balanced and equitable allocation of
water use rights 151
Liping Dai, Marleen van Rijswick and Bram Schmidt
7 The role of private property rights in Australia's and Canada's
modern water allocation regimes 196
Sharon Mascher and Deborah Curran

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8 Recovery of costs for water uses at the different levels of
water law 213
Antti Belinskij

PART III TRANSBOUNDARY WATER MANAGEMENT

9 Tensions and relationships in international water law 241
Tuomas Kuokkanen
10 The Columbia River Treaty between Canada and the United
States of America ­ time for change? 262
Nigel Bankes
11 Kansas v. Colorado: state sovereignty and the equitable
allocation of ...