Mark Zeitoun Power and Water in the Middle East (London: I B Tauris, 2008)
This book provides a powerful new perspective on the Palestinian-Israeli water conflict. Adopting a new approach to understanding water conflict - hydro-hegemony - the author shows the conflict to be much more deeply entrenched than previously thought and reveals how existing tactics to control water are leading away from peace and towards continued domination and a squandering of this vital resource.
Existing approaches tend to play down the negative effects of non-violent water conflict, and what is presented as co-operation between countries often hides an underlying state of conflict between them. The new analytical framework of hydro-hegemony exposes the hidden dynamics of water conflict around the world and yields critical insights in to the Middle East water problem. This important work will interest researchers, professionals and policy makers involved with the politics of the Middle East and with water conflict more generally.
Falkner, Robert Business Power and Conflict in International Environmental Politics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
How powerful is business in international environmental protection? Modern industrial sectors are often at the root of global environmental problems such as global warming and ozone layer depletion, but are they also the main source of inertia and obstruction that often hold back international efforts to save the environment? Does the limited success of the Kyoto Protocol process suggest that the fossil fuel industry and others can prevent effective climate action? On the other hand, what are we to make of cases such as the Montreal Protocol, which has helped to reverse the manmade trend towards ozone layer depletion?
This book is the result of over ten years of research on international environmental politics. It puts forward a distinctive theoretical approach and analytical framework for studying business as an international actor in the environmental field, and provides detailed case studies of three of the most important environmental challenges in recent years: the protection of the ozone layer; the politics of global climate change; and the regulation of agricultural biotechnology.
Sustainability Cabinet Publications
Dr Michael Mason [Director]
‘Governing out of a crisis: addressing urban deprivation in Vancouver’, Geography Review, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2007, pp. 30-33.
‘Collaborative partnerships for urban development: a study of the Vancouver Agreement’, Environment and Planning A, Vol. 39, No. 10, 2007, pp. 2366-2382.
‘Post-traditional corporate governance’ (with Dr Joan O’Mahony) LSE/Alcoa Foundation Governance and Sustainability Working Paper Series, No. 1, May 2007, 27 pp [ISSN: 1754-9213].
Entries on ‘democracy’, ‘justice’ and ‘World Trade Organization’ in Paul Robbins (ed.) (2007) Encyclopaedia of Environment and Society, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, ISBN: 978-1412927611.
Review of R. Kyriakides The Energy Age [2006], European Environment, Vol. 17 (2007), p. 145.
‘Citizenship beyond national borders? Identifying mechanisms of public access and redress in international environmental regimes’, Global Governance, Vol. 12, No. 3, 2006, pp. 283-303.
Dr Robert Falkner
(Editor) The International Politics of Genetically Modified Food: Diplomacy, Trade and Law, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
‘Introduction: the international politics of genetically modified food’, in: The International Politics of Genetically Modified Food: Diplomacy, Trade and Law, ed. by Robert Falkner. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-11.
‘International cooperation against the hegemon: the Cartagena Protocol’, in: The International Politics of Genetically Modified Food: Diplomacy, Trade and Law, ed. by Robert Falkner. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 15-33.
‘Internationalising biotechnology policy in China’, in: The International Politics of Genetically Modified Food: Diplomacy, Trade and Law, ed. by Robert Falkner. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 174-191.
‘The political economy of ‘normative power’ in Europe: EU environmental leadership in international biotechnology regulation’, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2007.
‘International sources of environmental policy change in China: the case of genetically modified food’, The Pacific Review, Vol. 19, No. 4, 2006, pp. 473-94.
‘Implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Comparing Mexico, China and South Africa’, Global Environmental Politics Vol. 6, No. 4, 2006, pp. 23-55 (with Aarti Gupta).
‘The European Union as a ‘green normative power’? On EU leadership in international biotechnology regulation’ Center for European Studies Working Paper Series #140, Harvard University, November 2006.
‘The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and domestic implementation: comparing Mexico, China and South Africa’, Chatham House Briefing Paper (London: Chatham House, March 2006) (with Aarti Gupta).
Professor Eric Neumayer
‘The gendered nature of natural disasters: the impact of catastrophic events on the gender gap in life expectancy’ (with Thomas Plümper), Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Vol. 97 No. 3, 2007.
‘Implementing multilateral environmental agreements: An analysis of EU directives’, (with Richard Perkins), Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2007.
‘Corruption, the resource curse and genuine saving’ (with Simon Dietz and Indra de Soysa), Environment and Development Economics, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2007, pp. 33-53.
‘Weak and strong Sustainability in the SEEA: concepts and measurement’ (with Simon Dietz), Ecological Economics, Vol. 61, 2006, No. 4, pp. 617-626.
‘The environment: one more reason to keep immigrants out?’ Ecological Economics, Vol. 62, No. 2, 2007, pp. 204-207.
‘An empirical test of the neo-Malthusian theory of fertility change’, Population and Environment, Vol. 27, No. 4, 2006, pp. 327-336.
Dr Richard Perkins
‘Implementing multilateral environmental agreements: An analysis of EU directives’, (with Eric Neumayer), Global Environmental Politics, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2007.
’Do membership benefits buy regulatory compliance? An empirical analysis of EU Directives 1978-1999’ (with Eric Neumayer), European Union Politics, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2007.
Research Fellow Publications
Dr Ladina Caduff
(with Thomas Bernauer) ‘Food safety and the structure of the European food industry’ in D. Vogel and C. Ansell (eds.) Why the Beef? The Contested Governance of European Food Safety Regulation, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2006.
Voice, access and interest alignment with corporate actors: explaining influence, strategy and power of NGOs, LSE/Alcoa Governance and Sustainability Working Paper Series, No. 2, May 2007 [ISSN: 1754-9213].
Dr Elena Lopez-Gunn
Lopez-Gunn, E (in press) 'Chapter 16: Groundwater Institutions in Garrido', A and Llamas, M (eds)Water Policy in Spain to be published by Resources for the Future, Washington, USA.
Lopez-Gunn, E and Jarvis, T (in press) 'Groundwater governance and the Law of the Hidden Sea' (manuscript number WPOL-D-08-00021) Water Policy Journal )
Lopez-Gunn, E and Llamas, R (in press) 'Re-thinking water scarcity: can science and technology solve the global water crisis?' Natural Resources Forum
Lopez-Gunn, E (2007) Groundwater management in Spain: self-regulation as an alternative for the future? Pp 345-350 in Ragone et al (2007) The Global Importance of Groundwater in the 21st century NGWA Press, Westerville.
Lopez-Gunn, E. (2006) 'Collective action and inaction in groundwater management' in Rydin, Y and Falleth, E. Networks and Institutions in natural resource management Edward Elgar Pub., London.
Dr Joan O’ Mahony
Mason, M and O’ Mahony, J (2008, forthcoming October) 'Post Traditional Corporate Governance'. Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 30: pp x
O’ Mahony, J and Ottaway, J (2008, forthcoming) 'Travelling Concepts: EU Governance in the Social Sciences Literature'. In A Decade of Research on EU Multilevel Governance: State of the Art 1995–2005, Edited by B Kohler-Koch and F Larat. Edward Elgar.
O’ Mahony, J (2008) 'The Promises and Pitfalls of Participation: What Voice for the Regional Advisory Councils?' In B Kohler-Koch, D de Bièvre, W Maloney (editors), Opening EU Governance to Civil Society – Gains and Challenges, Mannheim
O’ Mahony, J and Coffey, C (2007) 'From Civic Choice to Civic Voice: The Changing Role of Society in European Fisheries Governance', Journal of Civil Society, 3(3): 239–251. Routledge.
O’ Mahony, J and Mason, M (2007) 'Post-traditional corporate governance', LSE/Alcoa Governance and Sustainability Working Paper Series, No. 1, May 2007 [ISSN: 1754-9213].
O’ Mahony, J (2006) 'Post Traditional Corporate Governance: A Marriage of Convenience'. Risk&Regulation, Magazine of the LSE ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation.
Dr Mark Zeitoun
Power and Water in the Middle East - The Hidden Politics of the Palestinian-Israeli Water Conflict, London, UK: I.B. Tauris, 200pp, 2007.
‘Violations, opportunities and power along the Jordan River: security studies theory applied to water conflict’, in: Shuval, H. and H. Dweik (eds), Water Resources in the Middle East - the Israeli-Palestinian Water Conflict, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag, 2007.
‘Hydro-Hegemony: a framework for analysis of transboundary water conflicts’, Water Policy Vol. 8, 2006, pp. 435-460 (with Jeroen Warner).
‘The conflict vs. cooperation paradox: fighting over or sharing of Palestinian-Israeli groundwater?’ Water International, Vol. 32, 2007.
(with Jeroen Warner) ‘Introduction and updates to the framework of hydro-hegemony’, Water Policy (forthcoming).
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