Liquid Relations: Contested Water Rights and Legal Complexity

by RutgerdBoelens (Editor), Dik Roth (Editor), Margreet Zwarteveen (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $39.90

  Proposals to address water shortages are usually based on two assumptions: water is a commodity that can be bought and sold; states, or other centralized entitles, should control access to water. This book criticizes these assumptions from a socio-legal perspective. Eleven case studies examine laws and distribution in regions around the world.