International environmental law, water and the future

Elver, Hilal

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“…Likewise, a fundamental issue of Internet governance concerns how IP addresses should be allocated between various states, which are all part of the network of networks. This is analogous to what Elver (2006: 890) notes as ‘two broad issues’ fundamental to water law:how should uses of water that affect quality and quantity in a transboundary lake or river be allocated between the two or more states belonging to the basin? And what procedural rights and responsibilities pertain to states sharing a basin?In net terms, how should IP addresses be assigned to machines in various sovereign nations, who will distribute and manage these addresses, and what rights and responsibilities pertain to all parties involved?…”

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“…The political climate supported such a strategy, as regulatory bodies began to deal with the global water crisis through privatization. In her article ‘International Environmental Law, Water, and the Future’, Hilal Elver (2006: 893) writes:In late 1990s, the international financial institutions gave governments an idea about how to deal with emerging water interests and with the financial burdens associated with infrastructural needs. The formula was simple: ‘private sector participation in water supply and sanitation’.Elver argues that the fraught relationship between global law and the allocation of water concerns fundamental questions proper to human rights, resource scarcity, and neoliberal privatization of formerly governmental responsibilities.…”

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Scholarship on digital identity has historically reflected a Protean discourse, framing arguments in terms of fluidity and constraint. After explicating the Protean discourse that has framed critical approaches to digital identity, this article exposes how the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), in order to justify its centralized authority of the Domain Name System, itself mobilizes a Protean discourse, representing digital identity as a finite supply of water in need of proper management. From its formation in 1998 until 2009, when the US Department of Commerce effectively released the corporation from its official supervision, ICANN assembled a regime for the management of digital identity, which is itself an infrastructure for a global identity industry. By adopting an infrastructural disposition, this article situates global Internet governance in relation to the academic corpus on digital identity, interrogating the discursive conditions by which we have come to understand ourselves in relation to the Internet’s most basic addressing schema, the enclosures within which all virtual communities congregate.

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“…Similarly, others have acknowledged how the multifaceted eff ects of globalization have created intensive communications and global networks of public and private actors focused specifi cally on water issues. The "awakening eff ect" of global communications has allowed international NGOs and civil society groups to work together to address water issues (Elver 2006 ).…”

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Water Security in the Middle East : Essays in Scientific and Social Cooperation

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2017

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How best to incorporate conjunctive water management into international water law: legal amendment, instrument coupling, or new protocol adoption?

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2023

Int Environ Agreements

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International water conventions—e.g., the 1997 United Nations Convention on the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses—include positive but insufficient focus on groundwater and its interaction with surface water. As such, a growing body of literature has proposed modifications to existing frameworks to enable consideration to surface and groundwater and their interactions. While this literature places considerable focus on coupling and amending existing legal frameworks, elaboration and evaluation of a new protocol on conjunctive water management comprises a key gap. To fill this gap, this paper seeks to answer the following question: does formulation and adoption of a new “conjunctive” protocol provide more value than existing proposals centered around modifications to existing law? This paper seeks to compare benefits associated with current proposals to strengthen the international legal framework for management of surface–groundwater interaction, vis-a-vis adoption of a new protocol on conjunctive management of transboundary freshwaters. To do so, the authors use doctrinal legal methods to analyze the existing main instruments globally assessing the degree to which they consider key interlinkages between surface water and groundwater. Then, the paper examines the concept of conjunctive water management and deduces tenets that should be pursued in shared waters to achieve this objective. To identify the preferred option to support conjunctive water management in international water law, the paper explores the degree to which existing proposals vs a new protocol enable an embrace of these tenets of conjunctive water management. The paper finds that while a new protocol may add greater value in advancing conjunctive water management, multiple options can and should be concurrently pursued. In particular, the authors argue that new protocols to the existing treaties must be adopted in combination with the amendment of the Draft Articles on the Law of Transboundary Aquifers. Benefits of doing so include more effective management of transboundary freshwater resources that are interconnected hydrologically, a less fragmented and more consistent international water regime, and ultimately more benefits accruing to the populations and environmental goods dependent on shared water resources.

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International environmental law, water and the future

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