The Protocol on Water and Health as a Strategy for Global Water Governance Integration
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Authors
Viñuales, JE
Publication Date
2019-01-01Journal Title
International and Comparative Law Quarterly
ISSN
0020-5893
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Volume
68
Issue
1
Pages
175-192
Type
Article
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Viñuales, J. (2019). The Protocol on Water and Health as a Strategy for Global Water Governance Integration. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 68 (1), 175-192. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589318000362
Abstract
The 2018 report issued by a High-Level Panel on Water convened by the UN Secretary-General and the President of the World Bank, and consisting of 11 sitting heads of State and government, concluded that one of the main challenges facing global water governance is integration. Finding ways of integrating the different layers and areas of global water governance will, in turn, require institutional innovation. This article explores the potential of a well-tested yet largely under-studied approach to integration, namely that provided by the UNECE/WHO-Europe Protocol on Water and Health. It proposes that the Protocol be relied on both as an instrument and as a model that can be harnessed in four main ways: accession by a State or a regional organization (eg the EU) to the Protocol; amendment to give the Protocol a global scope; as a model framework for development, cooperation and foreign policy; as a model framework for the adoption of a contextualized instrument in another regional context.
Sponsorship
Newton Fund (ESRC grant no ES/N013174/1, BRIDGE Project)
Funder references
Economic and Social Research Council (ES/N013174/1)
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020589318000362
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/279568
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