公平合理利用原则与不造成重大损害义务之间的冲突--可以调和吗?

Conflict and Its Conciliation between Principle of Equitable and Reasonable Utilization and Obligation Not to Cause Significant Harm

在国际水法发展演变的漫长历史中,公平合理利用原则与不造成重大损害义务之间的关系一直是最具挑战性的问题。讨论关于这两个概念之间关系的争论的起源,介绍不同沿岸国在这一问题上的对立立场,进而阐释1997年《国际水道法公约》是如何处理这一问题并使这两个概念得以调和的。认为,通过国际水道国之间合作可以调和两者之间的冲突。

The relationship between the principle of equitable and reasonable utilization and the obligation against causing significant harm has been the most challenging issue in the long history of the evolution of international water law.This essay discusses the genesis of the debate on the relationship between the two concepts,presents the opposing positions of the different riparians thereon,and clarifies how the UN Watercourses Convention of 1997 has addressed this matter and rendered the two concepts reconcilable.It is believed that the conflict between the two concepts can be reconciled through cooperation among international watercourses States.