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Sharing Transboundary Resources
International Law and Optimal Resource Use

Part of Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law

Author: Eyal Benvenisti, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Date Published: April 2002
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9780521640985

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Why do states often fail to cooperate, using transboundary natural resources inefficiently and unsustainably? This book, first published in 2002, examines the contemporary international norms and policy recommendations that could provide incentives for states to cooperate. Its approach is multi-disciplinary, proposing transnational institutions for the management of transboundary resources. Benvenisti takes a fresh approach to the problem, considering mismanagement as the link between domestic and international processes. As well, he explores reasons why some collective efforts to develop the international law on transnational ecosystems have failed, while others succeeded. This inquiry suggests that adjudicators need to be assertive in progressively developing the law, while relying on scientific knowledge more than on past practice. Global water policy issues seem set to remain a cause for concern for the foreseeable future; this study provides a new approach to the problem of freshwater, and will interest international environmentalists and lawyers, and international relations scholars and practitioners.
- Comprehensive approach to the study of the international law on transboundary natural resources
- Theoretical treatment of the relationships between domestic politics and international law
- Multi-disciplinary study of international norms: using game theory, public choice and several other methods to suggest how international law should be developed and what it should prescribe
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'This highly readable, intelligent, insightful, and deeply informative book will leave its mark on subsequent scholarship in the field … Benvenisti has made important pathbreaking contributions with this book.' Connecticut Journal of International Law

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- Date Published: April 2002
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521640985
- length: 300 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.57kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The need for collective action in the management of transboundary resources
2. States as collective actors
3. The transnational conflict paradigm: structural failures and responses
4. Transnational institutions for transboundary ecosystem management: defining the tasks and the constraints
5. The structure and procedure of institutions for transboundary ecosystem management
6. The development of positive international law on transboundary ecosystems: a critical analysis
7. Efficiency, custom, and the evolution of the law
8. Conclusion.
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Eyal Benvenisti, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Eyal Benvenisti is Hersch Lauterpacht Professor of International Law and Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.