Franca, Alessandra Correia Lima Macedo --- "‘Glocal’ water management and regional organizations: multi-level law and transjuridicity" [2018] ELECD 1241; in Tignino, Mara; Bréthaut, Christian (eds), "Research Handbook on Freshwater Law and International Relations" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) 175

Book Title: Research Handbook on Freshwater Law and International Relations

Editor(s): Tignino, Mara; Bréthaut, Christian

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781785360640

Section: Chapter 7

Section Title: ‘Glocal’ water management and regional organizations: multi-level law and transjuridicity

Author(s): Franca, Alessandra Correia Lima Macedo

Number of pages: 22

Abstract/Description:

The multifaceted role of water resources reveals the great complexity of water management and protection, and suggests the need for a global multilevel legal system. It is clear, however, that there exists a wide gap between global needs and local realities. In this sense, regional organizations and regional law may be the ideal point of mediation. By analysing and comparing water management in European Union and Mercosur – as well as national examples from Spain and Brazil – the objective is to evaluate the legal-institutional structures of water management and protection in regional organizations. Aware of the differences between these two regional organizations, it is important to reflect on how these institutions can develop through mutual learning. It may be necessary to seek out ‘transjuridical’ approaches and to promote bigger synergies within the law and perhaps out of it, involving other fields of knowledge to achieve international goals.