The United States and International Water Policy

@article{Conca2008TheUS,
  title={The United States and International Water Policy},
  author={Ken Conca},
  journal={The Journal of Environment & Development},
  year={2008},
  volume={17},
  pages={215 - 237}
}
  • Ken Conca
  • Published 2008
  • Business
  • The Journal of Environment & Development
    • This article examines the role of the United States in international institutions and practices for governing water. Water is a critical global challenge of environmental protection and human security. Water is also characteristic of a set of “translocal” environmental issues for which international institution building has emerged along several different fronts: development assistance initiatives, efforts to manage ongoing controversies over water privatization and large dams, the campaign to… CONTINUE READING
    View on SAGE
    16 Citations
    Highly Influencial Citations
    2
    Background Citations
    7
    Methods Citations
    1

    Tables from this paper

    Tables

    16 Citations
    Citation Type

    Citation Type

    Tracking political climate change: US policy and the human right to water
    • 3
    • Highly Influenced
    • PDF
    International Development Cooperation in the Fields of Water and Sanitation: A Comparative Study of the United States and the Spanish Approaches in Latin America and the Caribbean
    • PDF
    Human Rights and Privatization of Water in the European Union and Beyond
    • 1
    Water, People, and Sustainability—A Systems Framework for Analyzing and Assessing Water Governance Regimes
    • 138
    • Highly Influenced
    Recent waves of water governance: Constitutional reform and resistance to neoliberalization in Latin America (1990–2012)
    • 66
    Social Drivers of Water Utility Privatization in the United States: An Examination of the Presence of Variegated Neoliberal Strategies in the Water Utility Sector
    • 7
    Reconciling global aspirations and local realities: Challenges facing the Sustainable Development Goals for water and sanitation
    • 14
    A More Perfect Commodity: Bottled Water, Global Accumulation, and Local Contestation
    • 28
    • PDF
    Sustainable use of water from natural and social science perspectives
    • 1
    A Bottle Half Empty
    • 16
    • PDF

    References

    SHOWING 1-10 OF 72 REFERENCES
    Federalism and U.S. Water Policy: Lessons for the Twenty-First Century
    • 58
    Institutions for the Earth. Sources of Effective International Environmental Protection.
    • 674
    The Dublin Statement on Water and Sustainable Development
    • 302
    • PDF
    Post-Sovereign Environmental Governance
    • 116
    Global Regime Formation or Complex Institution Building? The Principled Content of International River Agreements
    • 102
    Human right to water
    • 387
    • PDF
    Developing Countries and Global Environmental Governance: From Contestation to Participation to Engagement
    • 155
    Pilot analysis of global ecosystems : freshwater systems
    • 352
    The Commission for Environmental Cooperation and Environmental Management in the Americas
    • 15
    Social Rights Jurisprudence: Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
    • 456