Routledge Handbook Of Water Law And Policy Routledge HandBooks

This handbook is a comprehensive guide to water law and policy. It covers the importance of water in addressing global challenges such as climate change, food and energy security, environmental sustainability, and peace and stability. The book also discusses the progress that has been made in recent decades to strengthen the governance of water resources management at different scales. It also demonstrates that effective laws and policies are fundamental drivers for the safe, equitable, and sustainable utilization of water. However, the book also shows that what might constitute an effective law or policy related to water resources management is still hotly debated. As such, this handbook is an important and definitive reference text for all studying water governance and management.

Water plays a key role in addressing the most pressing global challenges of our time, including climate change adaptation, food and energy security, environmental sustainability and the promotion of peace and stability. This comprehensive handbook explores thepivotal place oflaw and policy in efforts to ensure that water enables positive responses to these challenges and provides a basisfor sound governance. The bookreveals thatsignificant progress hasbeen made in recent decades to strengthen the governance of water resource management at different scales, including helping to address international and sub-national conflicts over transboundary water resources. It demonstrates that effective laws and policies are fundamental driversfor the safe, equitable and sustainable utilization of water. However, it is also shown that what might constitute an effective law or policy related to water resources management is still hotly debated. As such, the handbook provides an important and definitive reference text forall studying water governance and management.