Ending Aqua Nullius: Sustainable and Legitimate Water Law in Settler States

该项目旨在调查条约和协议的签订如何导致殖民者殖民地国家的水法改革。该项目将使用澳大利亚、新西兰奥蒂亚罗亚、加拿大和美国的跨学科方法，发展土著主权如何影响水法的新知识。该项目的预期成果包括加强研究人员与土著人民之间的合作，为伦理、多元化的水资源法制定循证的法律和政策指导方针，以及作为缔结条约的一部分，与土著人民合作制定针对具体情况的水资源法改革路径。这应该会带来显著的好处，例如提高澳大利亚水法的合法性和生态可持续性。

This project aims to investigate how treaty and agreement making can lead to water law reform in settler colonial states. This project will use interdisciplinary approaches in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada and the US to develop new knowledge of how Indigenous sovereignty shapes water law. Expected outcomes of this project include enhanced collaborations between researchers and Indigenous Peoples, evidence-based law and policy guidelines for ethical, pluralist water laws, and context-specific pathways for water law reform developed in partnership with Indigenous Peoples as part of Treaty-making. This should provide significant benefits, such as improving both the legitimacy and ecological sustainability of water law in Australia.