Event: ‘What is Healthy Water?’ Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Water Security
The Peter Wall Institute invites you to attend a public event “What is ‘Healthy’ Water? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Water Security”. This evening is part of a Peter Wall Exploratory Workshop on Water and Innovation organized by Dr. Karen Bakker and Dr. Leila Harris. Wednesday January 29, 2014 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Peter Wall Institute Conference […]
Event: Dialogue with David Groenfeldt on ethics in water governance
Sponsors: EDGES and the Program on Water Governance What: informal student-driven dialogue with David Groenfeldt (by invitation) Date: Thursday January 30th David Groenfeldt Director, Water-Culture Institute; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico An anthropologist, David received his PhD in 1984 from the University of Arizona, based on field research on irrigation development in […]
Event: China’s ‘Upstream Dilemma’ as an Emerging World Power – How does International Law Facilitate Transboundary Water Cooperation?
Sponsor: Institute of Asian Research Place: Conference room #120, C.K. Choi Building, 1855 West Mall By: Patricia Wouters, Professor of International Law, Xiamen University, China Type: Seminar Date: Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 Time: 4:30 pm Patricia Wouters, professor of international law specialises in transboundary water resources and currently heads up the China International Water Law (CIWL) research […]
Fieldwork Update: Crystal Tremblay in Brazil
Dr.Tremblay attended the Better Futures Network in Rio de Janeiro, November 24th-28th, 2013 hosted by the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation (CCCI) of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, in partnership with COEP (Comitê de Entidades no Combate contra a Fome e Pela Vida – the Committee of Entities in the Struggle against Hunger and for Life) based in Brazil. The […]
New Publication: Neoliberalism, Nature, and Changing Modalities of Environmental Governance in Contemporary Turkey
Harris, L. and M. Islar. (2014). Neoliberalism, Nature and Changing Modalities of Environmental Governance in Contemporary Turkey. In: Atasoy, Y., Ed. (2014). Global Economic Crisis and the Politics of Diversity. London and New York, Palgrave MacMillan Chapter abstract: This paper presents an overview of recent environmental governance shifts in Turkey, analyzing these shifts in relation […]