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Water-energy-food nexus in international law: a legal analysis

In: Handbook on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus

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  • Paolo Davide Farah
  • Imad Antoine Ibrahim

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The importance of the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus has been recognized in recent decades where the international community has sought to directly establish such connections through official documents and declarations. Nonetheless, from a legal perspective, the WEF nexus has not been sufficiently examined as lawyers and legal scholars have only recently started analyzing this matter. In this context, this chapter is seeking to answer the following questions: is it possible and helpful to regulate the WEF nexus under an international legal perspective? Which kind of rules can be established and how is it possible to strike a balance among diverging values and interests represented within the WEF nexus itself? This chapter will highlight that, although a global regulatory framework is ideal and would be effective, such a system needs to be combined with the inclusion of a specific provision involving transboundary water agreements. An additional legal document will be needed and should be adopted to tackle the WEF Nexus in detail.

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  • Paolo Davide Farah & Imad Antoine Ibrahim, 2022. "Water-energy-food nexus in international law: a legal analysis," Chapters, in: Floor Brouwer (ed.), Handbook on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus, chapter 21, pages 381-397, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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