This book restores water, both fresh and salt, to its central position in human endeavour, ecology and environment. Water access and the environmental and socia

From oceans and rivers to lagoons, billabongs and estuaries, this volume draws on water’s many formations in debating human relationships as a major source of

International organisations such as the World Bank began to intervene in the transboundary water governance of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river basin in the

What happens under international law if a state perishes due to rising sea levels without a successor state being created? Will the state cease to exist? What w

This volume calls upon over a dozen Indus observers to imagine a scenario for the Indus basin in which transboundary cooperation over water resources overcomes