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Cullet, Philippe (2009) Water Law, Poverty, and Development - Water Sector Reforms in India. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Abstract

This monograph comprehensively examines water law regulations and reform in the present decade, going beyond a simple analysis of existing water law and regulations to encompass environmental, social, economic, and human rights aspects of water as a natural resource. Using the specific case of India and on the related international law and policy framework that directly influences water regulatory developments in India, this book offers what will be the first and only analysis of water law reforms taking place at the national level in many developing countries in their domestic and international context. On the one hand, international freshwater law remains under-developed and existing legal instruments such as the 1997 UN Convention only address a limited set of relevant issues. Yet, the international law and policy framework concerning freshwater is increasingly important in shaping up law reforms taking place at the national level, in particular in developing countries. Indeed, non-binding resolutions such as the Dublin Statement on Water and Sustainable Development (1992) have had an immense influence on water law reforms in most developing countries. This book seeks to conceive of and analyse freshwater regulation in a broader context, and go beyond a literature that either lauds or criticises ongoing water sector reforms to provide an analytical basis for the reforms which all countries will have to adopt in the near or medium-term future.

Item Type: Authored Books
SOAS Departments & Centres: Legacy Departments > Faculty of Law and Social Sciences > School of Law
Legacy Departments > Faculty of Law and Social Sciences > School of Law > Law, Environment and Development Centre (LEDC)
School Research Centres > Centre for Asian Legal Studies
School Research Centres > Centre for Human Rights Law
School Research Centres > Law, Environment and Development Centre
Departments and Subunits > School of Law
ISBN: 9780199546237
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546237.001.0001
Date Deposited: 27 Jul 2009 09:07
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/7586

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