The Power of Constitutional Rights in Resource Conflicts: Water, Oil and Gold

Water is essential to all life and yet never has anthropogenic activity posed a greater risk to our water resources. This book explores legal mechanisms utilized by communities to protect water resources within the context of protracted mining conflicts, focusing on oil sands development in the Canadian boreal forest and gold mining in ecologically sensitive, glacier-rich areas of Argentina. This book highlights constitutional approaches to environmental rights protection in such conflicts....