Environmental water markets and regulation: a comparative legal approach

River systems around the world are degraded and are being used unsustainably.

Meeting this challenge requires the development of flexible regimes that have the potential to meet essential consumptive needs while restoring environmental flows.

This book focuses on how water trading frameworks can be repurposed for environmental water recovery and aims to conceptualise the most appropriate role for law in supporting recovery through these frameworks.

The author presents a comprehensive study of the legal frameworks in four jurisdictions: the States of Oregon and Colorado in the western United States; the province of Alberta in Canada; and the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia/Basin State of New South Wales.