TY - BOOK AU - Liu,Yang TI - International Watercourses Law and Multilateral Environmental Agreements: A Case for the Integrated Protection and Preservation of Shared Inland Water Ecosystems T2 - International Law E-Books Online, Collection 2024 SN - 9789004689428 AV - K3498 U1 - 341.4/4 23 PY - 2024/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill | Nijhoff KW - Environmental law, International.  KW - Fresh water KW - Law and legislation.  KW - Freshwater ecology.  KW - Water resources development KW - Water rights (International law)  N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material; Yang Liu -- Abbreviations; Yang Liu -- Chapter 1 Introduction; Yang Liu -- Chapter 2 Normative Coherence: Conceptualizing the Ecosystems of Shared Inland Waters; Yang Liu -- Chapter 3 Normative Coherence of Parallel Substantive Obligations in IWL and MEA s: A Legal Analytical Approach; Yang Liu -- Chapter 4 Implementation Coherence: Bridging Parallel Procedural Obligations in IWL and MEA s; Yang Liu -- Chapter 5 Implementation Coherence through Cooperation between RBO s and Treaty Bodies of the Ramsar and Biodiversity Conventions; Yang Liu -- Chapter 6 Operationalization: Ecosystem Protection and Preservation of the Lancang-Mekong River Basin; Yang Liu -- Chapter 7 Convergence: Cross-Fertilization of IWL and MEA s; Yang Liu N2 - This book anchors its arguments in Article 20 of the Watercourses Convention and explores consistencies and inconsistencies in parallel definitions, substantive and procedural obligations and institutional arrangements in IWL, and the Ramsar and Biodiversity Conventions with respect to the protection and preservation of ecosystems of shared inland waters. Dr. Yang Liu argues that the all-around informed and integrated application of IWL and MEAs is essential for the effective protection and preservation of shared inland water ecosystems. However, the degree of cross-fertilization of parallel provisions should be examined on a case-by-case basis in light of the legal analytical framework deployed in this study UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004689428 ER -