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Federalism Fails Water: A Tale of Two Nations, Two States, and Two Rivers

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Paul Babie · Paul Leadbeter · Kyriaco Nikias
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2020
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en
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The University of Adelaide · University of Vienna

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Documentary abstract — original language

In this Article, we consider the deployment of public power over the water resource. Federalism, like property, fragments control by dividing and separating power. While fragmentation might work to some extent for relatively discrete aspects of public power, such as those with respect to going to war, entering treaties, issuing money, and raising and maintaining armed forces, when applied to water, questions immediately arise: which unit of government gets to decide about the allocation of private power—property. Which unit of government can deal with those challenges that transcend formal boundaries, such as the environment?

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Paul Babie; Paul Leadbeter; Kyriaco Nikias. Federalism Fails Water: A Tale of Two Nations, Two States, and Two Rivers. 2020. https://www.declarationuniverselledesdroitsdelarbre.org/global-rights-of-nature-radar/reference/r-5e19ecd06591ff26d894aa3d3470bfa6/

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Paul Babie; Paul Leadbeter; Kyriaco Nikias. (2020). Federalism Fails Water: A Tale of Two Nations, Two States, and Two Rivers. https://www.declarationuniverselledesdroitsdelarbre.org/global-rights-of-nature-radar/reference/r-5e19ecd06591ff26d894aa3d3470bfa6/
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Paul Babie; Paul Leadbeter; Kyriaco Nikias. Federalism Fails Water: A Tale of Two Nations, Two States, and Two Rivers. 2020. https://www.declarationuniverselledesdroitsdelarbre.org/global-rights-of-nature-radar/reference/r-5e19ecd06591ff26d894aa3d3470bfa6/
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Paul Babie; Paul Leadbeter; Kyriaco Nikias. Federalism Fails Water: A Tale of Two Nations, Two States, and Two Rivers. 2020. https://www.declarationuniverselledesdroitsdelarbre.org/global-rights-of-nature-radar/reference/r-5e19ecd06591ff26d894aa3d3470bfa6/

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The University of Adelaide

University of Vienna

Kyriaco Nikias

Paul Babie

Paul Leadbeter

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Discovery source · https://hdl.handle.net/2440/129197

Institutional bibliographic repository · https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/25370

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