Includes bibliographical references and index.

Remarks on the Drafting History of the Convention / Alistair Rieu-Clarke -- From a Regional towards a Global Instrument - The 2003 Amendment to the UNECE Water Convention / Iulia Trombitcaia and Sonja Koeppel -- The Normative and Institutional Evolution of the Convention / Francesca Bernardini -- The 1997 UN Convention: Compatibility and Complementarity / Stephen Mccaffrey -- The UNECE Water Convention and Multilateral Environmental Agreements / Laurence Boisson De Charzournes , Christina Leb and Mara Tignino -- The Water Convention and other UNECE Environmental Treaties / Owen Mcintyre -- The Water Convention and the European Union: The Benefits of the Convention for EU Member States / Gábor Baranyai -- Scope of the UNECE Water Convention / Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Panos Merkouris -- Normative Features of the UNECE Water Convention / Attila Tanzi , Alexandros Kolliopoulos and Nataliya Nikiforova -- The No-Harm Rule / Attila Tanzi and Alexandros Kolliopoulos -- The Principle of Equitable and Reasonable Utilisation / Owen Mcintyre -- The Role of the Precautionary Principle in the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes / Nicolas De Sadeleer and Mehdy Abbas Khayli -- The Polluter-Pays Principle in the 1992 UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes / Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli and Pierre-Marie Dupuy -- The Sustainability Principle / Alistair Rieu-Clarke -- The Development of Legal Provisions and Measures for Preventing and Reducing Pollution to Transboundary Water Resources under the UNECE Water Convention / Rémy Kinna -- Integrated Water Resources Management as a Tool to Prevent or Mitigate Transboundary Impact / Heide Jekel -- Monitoring and Assessment and the duty of cooperation under the Water Convention: Exchange of Information Among the Riparian Parties / Annukka Lipponen and Lea Kauppi -- Public Information and Participation under the Water Convention / Serhiy Vykhryst -- The Duty to Cooperation in International Water Law - Examining the Contribution of the UN Water Conventions to Facilitating Transboundary Water Cooperation / Patricia Wouters and Christina Leb -- The Contribution of the UNECE Water Regime to Transboundary Cooperation in the Danube River Basin / Ruby Moynihan -- Cooperation between Finland and the Russian Federation / Antti Belinskij -- Dispute Prevention, Dispute Settlement and Implementation Facilitation in International Water Law: The Added Value of the Establishment of an Implementation Mechanism under the Water Convention / Attila Tanzi and Cristina Contartese -- The 2003 Kiev Protocol on Civil Liability and Compensation for Damage Caused by the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents on Transboundary Waters / Phani Dascalopoulou-Livada and Alexandros Kolliopoulos -- The UNECE Water Convention and the Human Right to Access to Water: The Protocol on Water and Health / Owen Mcintyre -- The UNECE Model Provisions on Transboundary Flood Management / Alexandros Kolliopoulos.

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