Can Western Water Law Become More ‘Relational’? A Survey of Comparative Laws affecting Water across Australasia and the Americas

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dc.contributor.authorMacpherson, Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-19T22:12:26Z
dc.date.available2023-01-19T22:12:26Z
dc.date.issued2022en
dc.date.updated2022-11-28T07:52:47Z
dc.description.abstractThere is increasing support, in international legal theory and advocacy, for water governance approaches that go beyond the technocratic, and recognise the reciprocal relatedness of water peoples and water places. Such an approach may seem logical within certain Indigenous law and belief systems, but can Western legal frameworks become more ‘relational’? How can they evolve to be capable of meaningfully relating with Indigenous systems of law and governance for water? This article draws on a comprehensive survey of comparative legal developments affecting water across seven settler-colonial countries in Australasia and Latin America that attempt (or profess) to be relational. I critically evaluate these attempts against the ‘yardstick’ of relationality. In each jurisdiction there are unresolved calls for a social, cultural and constitutional transformation of some sort, in which Indigenous and environmental justice are key. The analysis here reveals the potential for constitutional law to drive relational water laws, although without place-based specificity and supporting institutions, resources and redistributions of power, constitutional approaches risk having little practical impact.en
dc.identifier.citationMacpherson E (2022). Can Western Water Law Become More ‘Relational’? A Survey of Comparative Laws affecting Water across Australasia and the Americas. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand TNZR. 1-30.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2022.2143383
dc.identifier.issn0303-6758
dc.identifier.issn1175-8899
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/105018
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherInforma UK Limiteden
dc.rightsAll rights reserved unless otherwise stateden
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subjectwater lawen
dc.subjectrelationalityen
dc.subjectindigenous rightsen
dc.subjectconstitutional lawen
dc.subjectAustralasiaen
dc.subjectAmericasen
dc.subjectcomparative lawen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::45 - Indigenous studies::4503 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander environmental knowledges and management::450306 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land and water managementen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::45 - Indigenous studies::4509 - Ngā mātauranga taiao o te Māori (Māori environmental knowledges)::450906 - Te whakahaere whenua me te wai o te Māori (Māori land and water management)en
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::48 - Law and legal studies::4802 - Environmental and resources law::480203 - Environmental lawen
dc.titleCan Western Water Law Become More ‘Relational’? A Survey of Comparative Laws affecting Water across Australasia and the Americasen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
uc.collegeFaculty of Law
uc.departmentFaculty of Law
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