1st Edition

The Role of Law in Transboundary River Basin Disputes Cooperation and Peaceful Settlement

By Chukwuebuka Edum Copyright 2024
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the role legal rules play in the resolution of disputes in transboundary river basins. When states fail to resolve disputes over shared water resources, many cast such failures on inadequate or ineffective legal rules. With this view in mind, this book examines the role that legal rules do, and can, play in aiding the peaceful settlement of disputes and furthering... Read more

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. Interactional Theory of Law

3. Cooperation and Peaceful Settlement of Disputes in the Jordan River Basin

4. Cooperation and Peaceful Settlement of Disputes in the Nile River Basin

5. Cooperation and Peaceful Settlement of Disputes in the Mekong River Basin

6. Cooperation and Peaceful Settlement of Disputes in the Indus River Basin

7. General Conclusions

Index 

Biography

Chukwuebuka Edum holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is a researcher specialising in the intersection between International Law, Environmental Governance and Sustainable Development.