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Cover A Research Agenda for Water Law
A Research Agenda for Water Law

This timely Research Agenda provides imaginative solutions to existing and emerging challenges for the study, application, and development of water law. It argues for a dynamic approach to water law, anticipating how water and its relationship to humanity will shift due to climate change, modern societal norms and values, and technological innovation.

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Monograph Book
Published:
11 Aug 2023
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802204476
Collection:
Law 2023
Cover Handbook on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Handbook on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Edited by
Floor Brouwer

This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of how water, energy and food are interconnected, comprising a coherent system: the nexus. It considers the interlinkages between natural resources, governance processes seeking coherence among water, energy and food policies, and the adoption of transdisciplinary approaches in the field. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

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Handbook
Published:
12 Aug 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100550
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2022
Cover The Governance of Water Innovations
The Governance of Water Innovations
To Quench a Thirst

Providing an extensive comparative and international study of water innovations and the issues that arise in their implementation, The Governance of Water Innovations analyses the technical, economic, health and environmental impacts of water innovations and their policy implications.

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Monograph Book
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09 Aug 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800882058
Collection:
Political Science and Public Policy 2022
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Spatial Flood Risk Management
Implementing Catchment-based Retention and Resilience on Private Land
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Centralising the role of land and landowners, Spatial Flood Risk Management brings together knowledge from socio-economy, public policy, hydrology, geomorphology, and engineering to establish an interdisciplinary knowledge base on spatial approaches to managing flood risks.
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Monograph Book
Published:
14 Apr 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800379534
Collection:
Geography, Planning and Tourism 2022
Cover Water Markets
Water Markets
A Global Assessment
Edited by
Sarah A. Wheeler
Exploring water scarcity issues in light of the growing crisis in global water management, this book examines the applicability of water markets. It provides an overview and understanding of the presence of water markets across the globe, analysing the ways in which different countries and regions are grappling with water scarcity.
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Monograph Book
Published:
06 Aug 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788976930
Collection:
Economics 2021
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Handbook of Security and the Environment
This comprehensive Handbook tackles the increasingly urgent problem of the impact of climate change on conflict and human security. It analyses the ways in which scarcity of resources leads to food, water and health insecurities, resulting in population migration. Featuring contributions from leading international scholars, chapters cover how these contribute globally to societal insecurity and violent conflict in a growing number of regions.
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Handbook
Published:
21 May 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789900668
Collection:
Political Science and Public Policy 2021
Cover International Law and Transboundary Aquifers
International Law and Transboundary Aquifers
Groundwater amounts to 97% of available global freshwater resources. Emphasising the crucial importance of this in the context of increasing population, climate change and the overall global water crisis, Francesco Sindico offers a comprehensive study of the emerging body of international law applicable to transboundary aquifers.
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Monograph Book
Published:
18 Dec 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117630
Collection:
Law 2020
Cover Research Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts
Research Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts
This topical Research Handbook examines the legal intersections of climate change, oceans and coasts across multiple scales and sectors, covering different geographies and regions. With expert contributions from Europe, Australasia, the Pacific, North America and Asia, it includes insightful chapters on issues ranging across the impacts of climate change on marine and coastal environments. It assesses institutional responses to climate change in ocean and marine governance regimes, adaptation to climate impacts on ocean and coastal systems and communities, and climate change mitigation in marine and coastal environments. Through a plurality of voices, disciplinary and geographical perspectives, this Research Handbook explores cross-cutting themes of institutional complexity, fragmentation, scale and design trade-offs.
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Handbook
Published:
11 Dec 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788112239
Collection:
Law 2020
Cover Governing Oceans in a Time of Change
Governing Oceans in a Time of Change
Fishing for the Future?
This incisive book addresses the challenges facing the current institutional framework for governance of high seas fisheries. Marcus Haward identifies significant issues and difficulties affecting the management of fisheries in areas beyond national jurisdiction, as well as highlighting the key role that fishing and fisheries play in global ocean governance.
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Monograph Book
Published:
23 Jun 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788119368
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Mega-Dams and Indigenous Human Rights
Mega-Dams and Indigenous Human Rights
This original and insightful book explores and examines the impact that building mega-dams has on the human rights of those living in surrounding areas, and in particular those of indigenous peoples who are often most affected. Compiling case studies from around the world, Itzchak Kornfeld provides clear examples of how human rights violations are perpetrated and compounded, with chapters examining historical, recent and ongoing dam projects.
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Monograph Book
Published:
10 Jan 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786435491
Collection:
Law 2020