Week 1 (Jan 8) – No readings
Week 2 (Jan 15)
Gleick, P. (2000a.) The changing water paradigm: a look at twenty-first century water resources development. Water International 25(1): 127-138.
Vorosmarty, C. J. et al. (2010) Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity. Nature 467, 555-561.
Sprague, J. (2007) Great Wet North? Canada’s Myth of Water Abundance. In Bakker, K. (ed.) Eau Canada, Vancouver, UBC Press, 23-36.
Week 3 (Jan 22)
SFU (2003). “How to Debate” https://www.sfu.ca/cmns/130d1/HOWTODEBATE.htm
Optional:
Bailey, J., & Molyneaux, G. (2005). The Oxford Union Guide to Schools’ Debating. Read p. 3-21 (examples on pages 12-13, 18-19).
Baxley, K. (2015). Counterclaims
Week 4 (Jan 29)
Dingwerth, K. “The democratic legitimacy of public-private rule making: What can we learn from the World Commission on Dams?.” Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations 11.1 (2005): 65-83.
UNEP. (2000). Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-Making. The Report of the World Commission on Dams. London and Sterling, VA: Earthscan.
You can browse the entire report, but at least read all of Chapter 1.
Week 5 (Feb 5)
Nilsson, C., Reidy, C., Dynesius, M., and Revenga, C. (2005) Fragmentation and Flow Regulation of the World’s Large River Systems. Science 308 (5720): 405-408.
UNDP. (2009). Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis. Human Development Report 2006.
Week 6 (Feb 12)
Bakker, K. (2003) ‘Liquid Assets’ Alternatives 29(2): 17–21.
Budds, J. and G. McGranahan. (2003). Are the Debates on Water Privatization Missing the Point?” Environment and Urbanization 15(2): 87-114.
Davis, J. (2005) Private-Sector Participation in the Water and Sanitation Sector. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 30: 145–163.
Week 7 (Feb 19) Reading week; no class/readings
Week 8 (Feb 25)
Gleick, P. H. (2003). The human right to water. Water Nepal 9(1): 117-125.
Prasad, N. (2006). Privatisation Results: Private Sector Participation in Water Services after 15 Years. Development Policy Review 24(6): 669 – 92.
Week 9 (Mar 1)
Scott, C. A., Pierce, S. A., Pasqualetti, M. J., Jones, A. L., Montz, B. E., & Hoover, J. H. (2011). Policy and institutional dimensions of the water-energy nexus. Energy Policy, 39(10), 6622-6630.
Sovacool, B. K. (2014). Cornucopia or curse? Reviewing the costs and benefits of shale gas hydraulic fracturing (fracking). Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 37, 249-264.
Week 10 (Mar 11)
Jackson, R. B., Vengosh, A., Carey, J. W., Davies, R. J., Darrah, T. H., O’Sullivan, F., & Pétron, G. (2014). The environmental costs and benefits of fracking. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 39(1), 327-362.
Neville, K.J., Baka, J., Gamper-Rabindran, D., Bakker, K., Andreasson, S., Vengosh, A.,…Weinthal, E. (2017). Debating unconventional energy: Social, political, and economic implications. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 42, 241-266.
Mason, C. F., Muehlenbachs, L. A., & Olmstead, S. M. (2015). The economics of shale gas development. Annu. Rev. Resour. Econ., 7(1), 269-289.
Week 11 (Mar 18)
Boyd, D. R. (2011). No taps, no toilets: First Nations and the Constitutional right to water in Canada. McGill LW 57: 81.
Walkem, A. “The land is dry: Indigenous peoples, water, and environmental justice.” In Bakker, K. (ed) Eau Canada: the future of Canada’s water***, 311-329. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.
Week 12 (Mar 25)
Simms, R. et al. (2016). Navigating the tensions in collaborative watershed governance: Water governance and Indigenous communities in British Columbia, Canada. Geoforum 73: 6-16.
Phare, M. S. (2013). “Indigenous Peoples and Water: Governing Across Borders.” In Norman, E., Cohen, A. and Bakker, K. (eds.) Water Without Borders***. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.
***Books are available at the GIC (Geography Department Library)
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Further Reading (Optional):
Khagram, S. 2005. Dams and Development: Transnational struggles for water and power. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Chapters 1 and 6)
Pielou, E. C. 1998. Fresh Water. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 205 – 213.
Postel, S. and Richter, B. (2003). Rivers for Life: Managing Water for People and Nature. Washington: Island Press, pp. 1 – 41
Simms, R. (2015). Indigenous water governance in British Columbia and Canada: Annotated bibliography. Vancouver, BC: UBC Program on Water Governance.
