Riverflow - Softcover

Kibel, Paul Stanton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108927769 ISBN 13: 9781108927765

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

There are many people and places connected to rivers: fishermen whose livelihood depends on river ecosystems, farms that need irrigation, indigenous groups whose cultures rely on fish and flowing waters, cities whose electricity comes from hydroelectric dams, and citizens who seek wild nature. For all of these people, instream flow is vitally important to where and how they live and work. Riverflow reveals the diverse and creative ways people are using the law to restore rivers, from the Columbia, Colorado, Klamath and Sacramento–San Joaquin watersheds in America, to the watersheds of the Tweed in England and Scotland, the Fraser in Canada, the Saru in Japan, the Nile in North Africa, and the Tigris–Euphrates in the Middle East. Riverflow documents that we already have the legal tools to preserve the ecological integrity of our waterways; the question is whether we have the political will to deploy these tools effectively.

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About the Author

Paul Stanton Kibel is Professor at Golden Gate University School of Law and Director of its Center on Urban Environmental Law. He has also taught Water Policy in the West at Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, and water law at Berkeley Law School. He is natural resource counsel to the Water and Power Law Group, and his previous books include The Earth on Trial: Environmental Law on the International Stage (1998) and Rivertown: Rethinking Urban Rivers (2007).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108927769
• ISBN 13: 9781108927765
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312