The Principle of Integration of the Economic, Social and Environmental Dimensions: Analysis of its Recognition and Application in International Watercourse Cooperation Regimes
Bibliographic record
Abstract
[eng] While sustainable development is a broad objective that expresses an idea of intergenerational justice, on a more practical level, it also implies the creation of linkages between sectors and regimes on the basis of concrete measures and instruments. The principle of integration – one of the widely accepted principles on which sustainable development is based – aims to ensure that economic, social and environmental dimensions are given due consideration so that development-related activities are carried out in a sustainable manner. However, despite its relevance as a key element of sustainable development, the principle of integration remains largely uncharacterised, not only in terms of its recognition as a rule of international law but also in terms of the mechanisms through which it is implemented by the States. This research aims to contribute to discussion of the recognition and application of the principle of integration of the economic, social and environmental dimensions by focusing on the specific domain of the law of international watercourses. As the object of study is of a practical nature and focuses on the development and application of the norm, crucial methodological support is provided by the use of study cases. A group of nine international basins have been analysed, on the basis that the characteristics of their cooperation regimes make them particularly valuable for assessing the principle of integration. The basins are those of the Mekong River, Danube River, Dniester River, Sava River, Senegal River, Volta River, Niger basin, Lake Chad, and the combined regime for the watercourses shared by Canada and the United States of America. The study is structured in four chapters. Chapter 1 conceptualises and determines the legal nature and content of the principle of integration and attempts to define the legal contours of this obligation under international law from the theory of sources. Chapter 2 focuses on the field of international watercourse law, determining first the extent to which the principle of integration must govern cooperation on international watercourses and second whether the legal framework established by international watercourse law is sufficiently broad to allow the principle of integration to be applied. The third and fourth chapters analyse the cooperation regimes of a set of international watercourses. Specifically, Chapter 3 analyses how legal integration is operationalised in these cooperation frameworks related to international watercourses. Chapter 4 addresses the issue of institutional integration. After defining what institutional integration entails at a theoretical level, it analyses the practices and instruments that international river basin organisations undertake to operationalise this form of integration. This analysis leads to the conclusion that international watercourse cooperation mechanisms enabling the integration of the economic, social and environmental dimensions are generally under-utilised and represent an opportunity to more effectively pursue sustainable development. It also shows that integration currently relies to a great extent on institutional integration mechanisms, while legal integration remains largely unused and offers the greatest potential for better recognition and application of the principle of integration.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".