The UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes : its contribution to international water cooperation

The UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes provides invaluable insights into the contribution of this international agreement towards transboundary water cooperation via its legal provisions, accompanying institutional arrangements and subsidiary policy mechanisms.

Contributing authors - experts on key aspects of the Convention - address a broad range of issues, primarily concerning its: development and evolution; relationship with other multi-lateral agreements; regulatory framework and general principles; tools for arresting transboundary pollution; procedural rules; compliance and liability provisions; and select issues including its Protocol on Water and Health.

• Foreword p. xi
• Abbreviations p. xiv
• Notes on Contributors p. xvii
• Part 1 Development and Evolution of the Convention
• 1 Remarks on the Drafting History of the Convention p. 3 Alistair Rieu-Clarke
• 2 From a Regional towards a Global Instrument - The 2003 Amendment to the UNECE Water Convention p. 15 Iulia Trombitcaia and Sonja Koeppel
• 3 The Normative and Institutional Evolution of the Convention p. 32 Francesca Bernardini
• Part 2 The Water Convention and Other Multilateral Environmental Agreements
• 4 The 1997 UN Convention: Compatibility and Complementarity p. 51 Stephen Mccaffrey
• 5 The UNECE Water Convention and Multilateral Environmental Agreements p. 60 Laurence Boisson De Charzournes and Christina Leb and Mara Tignino
• 6 The Water Convention and other UNECE Environmental Treaties p. 73 Owen Mcintyre
• 7 The Water Convention and the European Union: The Benefits of the Convention for EU Member States p. 88 Gábor Baranyai
• Part 3 The Regulatory Framework of the Water Convention
• 8 Scope of the UNECE Water Convention p. 103 Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Panos Merkouris
• 9 Normative Features of the UNECE Water Convention p. 116 Attila Tanzi and Alexandres Kolliopoulos and Nataliya Nikiforova
• Part 4 General Principles of the Convention
• 10 The No-Harm Rule p. 133 Attila Tanzi and Alexandras Kolliopoulos
• 11 The Principle of Equitable and Reasonable Utilisation p. 146 Owen Mcintyre
• 12 The Role of the Precautionary Principle in the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes p. 160 Nicolas De Sadeleer and Mehdy Abbas Khayli
• 13 The Polluter-Pays Principle in the 1992 UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes p. 176 Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli and Pierre-Marie Dupuy
• 14 The Sustainability Principle p. 195 Alistair Rieu-Clarke
• Part 5 Tools for Preventing or Mitigating Transboundary Impact
• 15 The Development of Legal Provisions and Measures for Preventing and Reducing Pollution to Transboundary Water Resources under the UNECE Water Convention p. 211 Rémy Kinna
• 16 Integrated Water Resources Management as a Tool to Prevent or Mitigate Transboundary Impact p. 228 Heide Jekel
• Part 6 Data Collection and Information Sharing
• 17 Monitoring and Assessment and the duty of cooperation under the Water Convention: Exchange of Information Among the Riparian Parties p. 251 Annukka Lipponen and Lea Kauppi
• 18 Public Information and Participation under the Water Convention p. 268 Serhiy Vykhryst
• Part 7 Cooperation and Its Institutional Setting: The Water Convention and the Evolution of Procedural Rules of International Water Law
• 19 The Duty to Cooperation in International Water Law - Examining the Contribution of the UN Water Conventions to Facilitating Transboundary Water Cooperation p. 285 Patricia Wouters and Christina Leb
• 20 The Contribution of the UNECE Water Regime to Transboundary Cooperation in the Danube River Basin p. 296 Ruby Moynihan
• 21 Cooperation between Finland and the Russian Federation p. 310 Antti Belinskij
• Part 8 Compliance, Responsibility, Liability, Dispute Prevention and Settlement
• 22 Dispute Prevention, Dispute Settlement and Implementation Facilitation in International Water Law: The Added Value of the Establishment of an Implementation Mechanism under the Water Convention p. 319 Attila Tanzi and Cristina Contartese
• 23 The 2003 Kiev Protocol on Civil Liability and Compensation for Damage Caused by the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents on Transboundary Waters p. 330 Phani Dascabpoulou-Livada and Alexandros Kolliopoulos
• Part 9 Select Issues
• 24 The UNECE Water Convention and the Human Right to Access to Water: The Protocol on Water and Health p. 345 Owen McIntyre
• 35 The UNECE Model Provisions on Transboundary Flood Management p. 367 Alexandros Kolliopoulos
• 36 International Water Law and Climate Disruption Adaptation p. 379 Vasiliki-Maria Tzatzaki and A. Dan Tarlock
• 27 Advancing Dam Safety in Central Asia: The Contribution of the UNECE Water Convention p. 394 Bo Libert and Iulia Trombitcala
• 28 The International Water Law Process and Transboundary Groundwater: Supplementing the Water Convention with the 2012 UNECE Model Provisions p. 408 Attila Tanzi and Alexandros Kolliopoulos
• Part 10 Viewing the Convention from Outside the UNECE
• 29 The Water Convention from a North American Perspective p. 423 Emma S. Norman and Alice Cohen and Karen Bakker
• 30 The UNECE Water Convention from a Latin American Perspective p. 435 Lilian Del Castitlo-Laborde
• 31 Enhancing China's Transboundary Water Cooperation - What Role for the UNECE Water Convention? p. 451 Patricia Wouters
• 32 The UNECE Water Convention Viewed from the Perspective of the SADC Revised Protocol on Shared Watercourses p. 466 Rémy Kinna
• 33 Potential Guidance from the UNECE Water Convention for the Arab region p. 486 Raya Marina Stephan
• Part 11 The Role of International Financial Institutions
• 34 Environmental Conditionalities and international Funding of Water Works of a Transboundary Relevance p. 503 A. Vaughan Lowe
• 35 International Financial Institutions and the Water Convention: Consultations Arrangements p. 517 Salman M. A. Salman
• Part 12 Conclusions
• 36 The Contribution of the UNECE Water Convention to International Water Law p. 533 Attila Tanzi and Owen Mcintyre and Alexandros Kolliopoulos
• Index p. 541