Modern Water Rights

Author : Stephen Hodgson
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9789251056240
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Water Rights written by Stephen Hodgson and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vital importance of water to human activity is such that most societies and cultures have sought to establish legal rules over its use and allocation. In most jurisdictions legal rights to water have been linked to land tenure and ownership rights. A number of countries have recently undertaken substantive water law reforms, usually involving the introduction of formal and explicit water rights that clearly specify the volume of water that is subject to each right ("modern water rights"), together with institutional arrangements for their allocation, registration, monitoring and enforcement. Modern water rights are not intrinsically tied to specific land plots, are often transferable and available to be traded on a temporary or permament basis. This book reviews international experiences of the introduction and use of modern water rights. It is based on a survey of relevant primary and secondary legislation, published literature, internet sources and practical experience.

Author : Joshua Getzler
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Modern Legal
ISBN 13 : 9780198265818
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Water Rights at Common Law written by Joshua Getzler and published by Oxford Studies in Modern Legal. This book was released on 2004 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water resources were central to England's precocious economic development in the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, and then again in the industrial, transport, and urban revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Each of these periods saw a great deal of legal conflict over water rights, often between domestic, agricultural, and manufacturing interests competing for access to flowing water. From 1750 the common-law courts developed a large but unstable body of legal doctrine, specifying strong property rights in flowing water attached to riparian possession, and also limited rights to surface and underground waters. The new water doctrines were built from older concepts of common goods and the natural rights of ownership, deriving from Roman and Civilian law, together with the English sources of Bracton and Blackstone. Water law is one of the most Romanesque parts of English law, demonstrating the extent to which Common and Civilian law have commingled. Water law stands as a refutation of the still-common belief that English and European law parted ways irreversibly in the twelfth century. Getzler also describes the economic as well as the legal history of water use from early times, and examines the classical problem of the relationship between law and economic development. He suggests that water law was shaped both by the impact of technological innovations and by economic ideology, but above all by legalism.

Author : A. Dan Tarlock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Resource Management written by A. Dan Tarlock and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : ROBERT W.. CRAIG ADLER (ROBIN KUNDIS. HALL, NOAH D.)
Publisher : Foundation Press
ISBN 13 : 9781685614850
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Water Law written by ROBERT W.. CRAIG ADLER (ROBIN KUNDIS. HALL, NOAH D.) and published by Foundation Press. This book was released on 2023-12-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description Coming Soon!

Author : Rutgerd Boelens
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 184977479X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of the Mainstream written by Rutgerd Boelens and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Water is not only a source of life and culture. It is also a source of power, conflicting interests and identity battles. Rights to materially access, culturally organize and politically control water resources are poorly understood by mainstream scientific approaches and hardly addressed by current normative frameworks. These issues become even more challenging when law and policy-makers and dominant power groups try to grasp, contain and handle them in multicultural societies. The struggles over the uses, meanings and appropriation of water are especially well-illustrated in Andean communities and local water systems of Peru, Chile, Ecuador, and Bolivia, as well as in Native American communities in south-western USA. The problem is that throughout history, these nation-states have attempted to 'civilize' and bring into the mainstream the different cultures and peoples within their borders instead of understanding 'context' and harnessing the strengths and potentials of diversity. This book examines the multi-scale struggles for cultural justice and socio-economic re-distribution that arise as Latin American communities and user federations seek access to water resources and decision-making power regarding their control and management. It is set in the dynamic context of unequal, globalizing power relations, politics of scale and identity, environmental encroachment and the increasing presence of extractive industries that are creating additional pressures on local livelihoods. While much of the focus of the book is on the Andean Region, a number of comparative chapters are also included. These address issues such as water rights and defence strategies in neighbouring countries and those of Native American people in the southern USA, as well as state reform and multi-culturalism across Latin and Native America and the use of international standards in struggles for indigenous water rights. This book shows that, against all odds, people are actively contesting neoliberal globalization and water power plays. In doing so, they construct new, hybrid water rights systems, livelihoods, cultures and hydro-political networks, and dynamically challenge the mainstream powers and politics."--Publisher's description.

Author : Samuel Charles Wiel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1022 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Rights in the Western States written by Samuel Charles Wiel and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wells Aleck Hutchins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Rights Laws in the Nineteen Western States written by Wells Aleck Hutchins and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Scott S. Slater
Publisher : Butterworth Legal Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Water Law and Policy written by Scott S. Slater and published by Butterworth Legal Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309045282
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Transfers in the West written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American West faces many challenges, but none is more important than the challenge of managing its water. This book examines the role that water transfers can play in allocating the region's scarce water resources. It focuses on the variety of third parties, including Native Americans, Hispanic communities, rural communities, and the environment, that can sometimes be harmed when water is moved. The committee presents recommendations to guide states, tribes, and federal agencies toward better regulation. Seven in-depth case studies are presented: Nevada's Carson-Truckee basin, the Colorado Front Range, northern New Mexico, Washington's Yakima River basin, central Arizona, and the Central and Imperial valleys in California. Water Transfers in the West presents background and current information on factors that have encouraged water transfers, typical types of transfers, and their potential negative effects. The book highlights the benefits that water transfers can bring but notes the need for more third-party representation in the processes used to evaluate planned transfers.

Author : Robert W. Adler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781609302320
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Water Law written by Robert W. Adler and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Water Law provides a comprehensive text to study the range of legal issues and doctrines that affect water resources. This is a national book that uses many recent cases, bringing a fresh perspective to the field. The authors begin with private water use rights, including common law doctrines for riparian reasonable use and prior appropriation, as well as groundwater rights and the statutory schemes for administering water use rights. The book explores the range of public rights in water, including navigation, the public trust doctrine, federal reserved rights, and interstate water management. The book also introduces modern challenges and environmental protection goals, focusing on the energy-water nexus, water pollution, and endangered species conflicts. The final chapters combine these concepts in the context of complex watershed restoration challenges and water rights takings litigation.