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Legal Rights for Rivers: Competition, Collaboration and Water Governance
Four rivers, in New Zealand, India and Colombia, have recently been given the status of legal persons. To assess what it means to give rivers legal rights and legal personality, this book examines the form and function of environmental water managers, organizations with legal personality, using the USA and Australia as examples.
| Author(s) | By Erin O'Donnell. |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 212 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 6 Nov 2018 |
| Availability | Available |
Four rivers, in New Zealand, India and Colombia, have recently been given the status of legal persons. To assess what it means to give rivers legal rights and legal personality, this book examines the form and function of environmental water managers, organizations with legal personality, using the USA and Australia as examples.
1. Introduction 2. Constructing the environment in law: making it count 3. Environmental Water Managers: examples of indirect legal personhood for rivers 4. Just another user: environmental water managers in Australia 5. Partnership as success: the EWMs o
Erin O'Donnell is a Senior Fellow and sessional lecturer at the University of Melbourne Law School, Australia. She is also an independent consultant on water markets to the World Bank and has worked on water governance in the public and private sectors fo
