Introduction

Additional reading


Loures F and Rieu-Clarke A (eds), The UN Watercourses Convention in Force – Strengthening International Law
for Transboundary Water Management (Earthscan 2012).

Loures F, Rieu-Clarke A and Vercambre, M-L, Everything You Need to Know About the UN Watercourses Convention (WWF 2009).

McCaffrey S and Sinjela M, ‘The 1997 United Nations Convention on International Watercourses’ (1998) 92 American Journal of International Law 97.

Rieu-Clarke A, ‘Entry Into Force of the 1997 UN Watercourses Convention: Barriers, Benefits and Prospects’ (2007) Water 21, 12.

Rieu-Clarke A and Loures FR, ‘Still Not in Force: Should State Support the 1997 UN Watercourses Convention? (2009) 18(2) Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 185.

Salman, SMA ‘The United Nations Watercourses Convention Ten Years Later: Why Has its Entry into Force Proven Difficult?’ (2007) 22 Water International 1.

Tanzi A and Arcari M, The United Nations Convention on the Law of International Watercourses: A Framework for Sharing (Kluwer Law International 2001).

Wouters P, ‘The Legal Response to International Water Conflicts: The UN Watercourses and Beyond’ (1999) 42 German Yearbook of International Law 293.

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