The IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy Science (under the auspices of UNESCO) and WWF are together organizing a symposium on the 1997 UN Watercourses Convention in June 2012. The aim of the symposium is to collect many and different viewpoints from academia, government, international organizations, and civil society, to debate the existing and potential relevance of this global framework instrument.
For this attempt the member of the symposium are inviting papers on a range of topics related to the UNWC. The organizers would be particularly keen to receive abstracts that explore-
- The value of a global framework/regime for the governance of international watercourses,
- The lessons that could be learnt from the experiences of entry into force and implementation of other global or regional treaty regimes (e.g. Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Wetlands), a nd
- The mechanisms that should be in place to ensure that watercourse conventions are implemented and complied with at the national level.
Date: The symposium will start on 5th June 2012 and will end on 8th June 2012 and
Venue: The symposium will be hosted at University of Dundee, UK.
A call for papers has been issued for this symposium and the deadline for submission is 29 February 2012.
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