La Plata Basin. The Regional Integration Processes

CAPALDO, GRISELDA D.

Environmental Policy and Law

IOS Press (The Netherlands)

Lugar: Bonn; Año: 2013 vol. 43 p. 222 - 225

0378-777X

(Publicación sometida a evaluación de pares a doble ciego. NIVEL 1). La revista "ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY and LAW" is Indexed in: SCOPUS, Compendex Plus, Database WasteInfo, EBSCO´s database, Ei Page One, Elsevier BioBase, EMBASE, The Engineering Index, Environment Abstracts, Fisheries Review, Geobase, Human Geography, IBR, IBZ, International Development Abstracts, Linkages Update; MasterFILE, PAIS International, PaperChem, Pollution Abstracts, Waste & Environment Today, Water Resources Abstracts, Wildlife Review Abstracts) The purpose of this paper is to explore, describe and review the role of trans-boundary basins as vectors for regional cooperation and integration, particularly among MERCOSUR member countries. In this connection a theoretical triangulation is made among International Waters Law, International Environmental Law and Integration Law. From this theoretical triangulation that includes a strong component of Environmental Waters Law emerges a corpus juris aquarum ambientalis that is common to all five coastal nations within the La Plata Basin (four of them are in turn member States of MERCOSUR) that as an homogeneous corpus juris, having a remarkable convergence of legal rules, does constitute a solid platform to feedback the regional integration process based on the multiple shared use of trans-boundary river basins.