New book:The Human Right to Water / Significance, Legal Status and Implications for Water Allocation
Inga T Winkler has write a new book, published by Hart Publishing . The Human Right to Water is available at a variety of online sites.
Sadly the price of $100 (US) is out of reach for many. Given the importance of the topic we need to figure out how share this knowledge freely.
The publisher’s summary is as follows:
“The United Nations General Assembly and the Human Rights Council recognised the human right to water in 2010. This formal recognition has put the issue high on the international agenda, but by itself leaves many questions unanswered. This book addresses this gap and clarifies the legal status and meaning of the right to water through a detailed analysis of its legal foundations, legal nature, normative content and corresponding State obligations.
The human right to water has wide-ranging implications for the distribution of water. Examining these implications requires putting the right to water into the broader context of different water uses and analysing the linkages and competition with other human rights that depend on water for their realisation. Water allocation is a highly political issue reflecting societal power relations, with current priorities often benefitting the well-off and powerful. Human rights, in contrast, require prioritising the most basic needs of all people. The human right to water has the potential to address these underlying structural causes of the lack of access to water rooted in inequalities and poverty by empowering people to hold the State accountable to live up to its human rights obligations and to demand that their basic needs are met with priority.”
The Core Chapters from the table of contents(pdf) are:
- Background: Water Availability and Competing Demands
- Legal Foundations of the Human Right to Water
- Legal Characteristics of the Human Right to Water
- Human Rights Implications for Water Allocation
- Benefits of Understanding Water as a Human Right
- Conclusion and Outlook
The publisher provides the 14 page introduction as a preview
Details
376 pages Hardback
ISBN 978184946283
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