The global demand for food and bioenergy changes associated with land use and land
cover change (LULCC) has raised concerns about the environment, global warming, and …

As the scope and scale of Anthropocene environmental challenges intensify, researchers
have underscored accompanying governance demands (Burch et al., 2019; Robinson …

Concerns have been raised regarding the ability of international environmental law to
respond to potentially irreversible earth system transformations in the Anthropocene. We …

Water governance determines “who gets water, when, and how” in most large river basins.
Shifts in water governance regimes from natural to social‐ecological or “hydrosocial” carry …

Nexus governance recognises that sustainability concerns such as water, energy, and food
security are interlinked and provides an alternative to fragmented governance. Although it …

Transboundary assessments of water security typically adopt an 'upstream'perspective,
focusing on hazards and vulnerabilities occurring within a given hydrological basin …

Numerous scientific reports have evidenced the transformation of the earth system due to
human activities. These changes–captured under the term 'Anthropocene'–require a new …

When confronted with global sustainability challenges, we often take recourse to the law to
govern human behaviour and achieve desired regulatory outcomes (Chapron et al., 2017) …

Current groundwater challenges have made evident that national and international
groundwater law needs a thorough revision. In this article, we explore earth system law …

Attention is increasingly focused on the protection of water systems as critical infrastructure,
including subsystems of supply, sanitation, hygiene, and management. Similarly increasing …