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- Title
Legal geographies of water.
- Authors
Vineyard, Noel; Berry, Kate; Ormerod, Kerri Jean
- Abstract
Legal geography seeks to understand the complex interactions between people, law, and space. It exists as an interdisciplinary endeavor, incorporating intellectual threads from critical legal studies, political geography, sociology, and related work. The purpose of this focus article is to introduce legal geography to water scholars as practical means to study law and space to human–water relationships (i.e., hydrosocial relations). We start by tracing a history of legal geography's development as a field and highlight important works in legal geography past and present. We then focus on ways legal geography has been utilized to explore four broad topics within the scope of human water: rights to water, water governance, water as imagined and represented, and value of water. We conclude that legal geography frameworks applied to water research may be useful for furthering the understanding of many of the issues important to WIRES Water readers. This article is categorized under:Human Water > Water as Imagined and RepresentedHuman Water > Rights to WaterHuman Water > Water Governance
- Subjects
RIGHT to water; HISTORY of geography; LEGAL education; POLITICAL geography; WATER rights; GEOGRAPHY
- Publication
WIRES Water, 2023, Vol 10, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
2049-1948
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/wat2.1652