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PROFESSOR KAREN J BAKKER ~ CV of 28

DR KAREN J. BAKKER Professor and Canada Research Chair

Director, Program on Water Governance University of British Columbia

217-1984 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2 karenbakker.org | www.watergovernance.ca | [email protected]

AC A D E M I C EM P L O Y M E N T Current

• Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia (2011 – present) • Director, Program on Water Governance, Institute for Resources, Environment, and

Sustainability (2005 – present) Previous

o Associate Professor, University of British Columbia (2006 – 2011) o Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia (2002 – 2006) o Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Water Research, Oxford University (1999 – 2002) o Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Oxford University (1999 – 2002) o Doctoral Research Fellow, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University (1996 – 1999)

ED U C A T I O N

PhD, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University (1999) Thesis title: Privatizing the Environment Bachelor of Arts & Science (Honours), McMaster University (1995) Honors thesis title: Urban waterfront redevelopment in Hamilton’s North End

HO N O U R S A N D AW A R D S

• Rik Davidson Award (2013)

• Canada Research Chair (2011)

• Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 (2011)

• Urban Affairs Association Annual Book Award (2011; honorary mention)

• Peter Wall Institute Distinguished Scholar Award (2006)

• Glenda Laws Award, Association of American Geographers (2005)

• St. Catherine’s College Graduate Scholar, Oxford University (1996)

• Rhodes Scholar (1995)


HI G H L I G H T S

• RESEARCH o H-Index: 25 and i10 index: 39 o Interdisciplinary research in urban studies, environmental science, development studies o Articles in Science, Global Environmental Change, Water Resources Management, Environment and

Planning, World Development, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research o Citation profile: http://bit.ly/wVViEu

Areas of research interest include: urban water infrastructure; urban political ecology; water technology and infrastructure management; water conservation; water security; water and development in mega-cities; public-private partnerships for urban development; integrated water and land use planning; water and landscape; socio-hydrology and the hydro-social cycle; drought hazard mitigation/response; cultures of infrastructure; interrelationships between natural and built environments; environmental equity; environmental politics, governance and management.

• LEADERSHIP

o Member of 7 editorial boards, including the journal Environnement Urbain and UCL’s Urban Lab o Founding Director of UBC’s Program on Water Governance (www.watergovernanee.ca) In my role as Director of the Program on Water Governance, I work closely with practitioners; our network has over 2000 members. This has provided me with extensive experience in fostering innovation, and navigating between pragmatic “solutions” and “blue skies”-inspired ideals. To give a practical example: building on an interdisciplinary re-definition of the concept of water security, I led a team of practitioners (including urban planners, engineers, hydro-geologists and water managers) to design visualization and governance tools embedding groundwater protection in landscape management and land use decision-making. The results were featured at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting (2012).

• GRANT FUNDING o $12+ million (2.4 million as lead/co-PI) from natural, social and medical sciences funding agencies Examples of current grant topics include: (re)designing drinking water systems for small, vulnerable urban communities: (www.reseauwaternet.ca); designing new genomics-based techniques for drinking water protection through linking landscape processes, land use governance, bioinformatics, and contaminante detection technologies. (www.watersheddiscovery.ca). Past projects include collaboration with an OECD-led team designing alternative water governance strategies for Venice; GIS-supported analysis of interrelationship between architecture and access to water supply in Jakarta; analysis of political, economic, ecological impacts of urban water privatization in London, England.

• TEACHING, INVITED LECTURES o 3 courses (250 students/year) to students in Engineering, Science, Environmental Sciences, Arts o Invited lectures at Berkeley, Harvard, Oxford, CNRS, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées o Featured plenary speaker: AAAS 2012 (www.aaas.org/meetings/2012/program/topicals/)

I am currently developing Coursera’s first MOOC on water issues. A demo video can be accessed at: (https://vimeo.com/78599521); password: mooc.


TEACHING

My approach to teaching combines commitments to scholarly excellence and public engagement. I have taught, on average, 250 students per year and three courses per year over the past 10 years. My courses have ranged in size from small seminars to large classes (200+ students), with the majority of my courses being seminars. This has enabled me to develop a broad range of teaching skills, suited to different class sizes and contexts. As I am particularly interested in fostering critical thinking skills and contributions to public debate, I use a range of pedagogical techniques, including problem-based learning and inquiry methods. My interdisciplinary training—I hold dual BA and BSc undergraduate degrees, and was jointly supervised by natural and social scientists for my PhD—has enabled me to create interdisciplinary courses, drawing on a range of subjects (such as ecology, engineering, geography, history, law, and philosophy) to provide a rich, intense experience for students in the classroom. Accordingly, my courses attract students from several schools and faculties at UBC: Science, Arts, Engineering, the School of Urban and Regional Planning, and UBC’s graduate Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability. I also have a strong interest in flexible and online learning, and am currently developing Coursera’s first MOOC on water issues: https://vimeo.com/78599521 (password: mooc). Although I’m sympathetic to the (many valid) criticisms of MOOCs, I believe that strategic innovation with online learning can enable greater inclusion and equity for students (and indeed faculty). Accordingly, I have created a team dedicated to experimenting with alternative formats that promote interdisciplinarity and inclusive access to education. Our experimental course platform will make intensive use of visualization and social media tools to heighten student engagement and enrich the learning experience. All of my graduate students (listed below) have successfully completed their degrees, and have moved on to successful careers with government departments, non-governmental organizations, and universities. Supervising graduate students has become one of the most rewarding aspects of my career, not least because it enables teaching and research roles to be productively combined. I work closely with my students to provide a range of experiences as academics and practitioners, working with a range of actors (from international organizations to municipalities, to community groups). I have a particular interest in public and policy engagement—and work with my students to translate their research for these audiences. Courses taught at UBC include: Environmental and Resource Management, Environment and Sustainability, Environment and Society; Water Management and Policy; Social Theory.


GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POST-DOCTORAL ADVISING

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*Primary Supervisor

Marc Tadaki PhD 2013 In progress

Corin de Freitas* PhD 2012 In progress

Christina Cook* Post-doc 2011 2012

Julian Yates* PhD 2010 ABD

Corin de Freitas* MA 2010 2012

Andrea Marston* MA 2010 2012

Sam Walker MA 2010 2013

Emilia Kennedy PhD 2010 ABD

Max Ritts PhD 2010 ABD

Cynthia Morinville MA 2010 2012

Emma Norman* Post-doc 2009 2011

Noah Quastel PhD 2009 ABD

Alice Cohen* PhD 2008 2011

Kathryn Furlong* Post-doc 2007 2009

Christina Cook* PhD 2007 2011

Alice Cohen* MA 2005 2007

Sue Moccia* MA 2005 2007

Alex Aylett PhD 2005 2011

Joanna Reid PhD 2004 2010

Sayeed Ahmed PhD 2004 2009

Emma Norman* PhD 2003 2009

Taina Utto MA 2003 2006

Kathryn Furlong* PhD 2002 2007

Michelle Kooy * PhD 2002 2007

Estelle Levin MA 2002 2005


RESEARCH GRANTS (Past 10 years) The interdisciplinary nature of my research is reflected in the fact that I currently hold grants from natural science, social science, and medical research funding councils.

Granting Agency Title Total ($) Year Peter Wall Institute for

Advanced Studies Water Security and Innovation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

23,097 2013

UBC VPRO (PI) Water Security 10,000 2013 NSERC (co-PI) RESEau-WaterNet:

Drinking Water Solutions for Small Communities 5,000,000 2013

SSHRC WEPGN (co-PI) Water, Economics and Policy 2,300,000 2012 Genome Canada/BC (co-PI) Drinking Water Quality and Meta-Genomics of

the Watershed Biome 3,100,000 2011

SSHRC (PI) Delegated Water Governance in Latin America 98,020 2011 Gordon Foundation (PI) Transboundary Canada-US Water Governance 64,962 2010

SSHRC (PI) Canadian Fresh Water Governance 80,000 2009 Gordon Foundation (PI) Water Security: A Risk-Based Paradigm 67,390 2008

Canadian Water Network (PI) Water Security for Source Water Protection 834,000 2008 SSHRC (PI) Transboundary Water Governance 93,000 2007

Fraser Basin Council (PI) Freshwater Governance in British Columbia 33,500 2007 B.C. Ministry of Environment

(PI) Groundwater Governance (Workshop Grant) 4,000 2007

Real Estate Foundation (PI) Groundwater Governance 9,000 2007 BC Min. of Environment (PI) Water Security Index 20,000 2007 Canadian Water Network (PI) Water Security 10,000 2007

Gordon Foundation (PI) Water Governance in Canada 128,000 2006 Canadian Water Network (PI) Demand Management and Water Conservation 47,800 2006

Hampton Fund (UBC) (PI) Alternative Water Governance Models 22,150 2006 BC Min. Environment (PI) Transboundary Groundwater Management 2,500 2006

HSS Large Grants (PI) Transboundary Groundwater Management 5,050 2006 Gordon Foundation (PI) The Future of Canadian Water Governance 21,065 2006 Peter Wall Institute (PI) Exploratory Workshop ~ Water Governance 13,500 2006

Weyerhaeuser Program (PI) Managing Transboundary Resources 40,000 2005 Infrastructure Canada (PI) Municipal Water Supply Infrastructure

Governance 192,540 2005

SSHRC (PI) Urbanisation and Water Supply in Jakarta 122,914 2003

TOTAL $12,342,488


PUBLICATIONS (Student/Trainee names underlined)

BOOKS (sole-authored)

Bakker, K. (2010) Privatizing Water: Governance failure and the world’s urban water crisis.

Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Based on over a decade of fieldwork on four continents, this book explores the nexus between

privatization, urbanization, and the global water crisis. o Recipient of:

o Urban Affairs Association Annual Book Award (2011; honorary mention) o Rik Davidson Studies in Political Economy Book Prize (2012)

o Reviewed in Foreign Affairs, Economic & Political Weekly, Human Rights Quarterly, Environmental Politics, Water Alternatives, Environment & Planning C (Government & Policy), Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Antipode; Progress in Human Geography.

o Republished (2010) Singapore: Singapore University Press and (2011) New Delhi: Orient/Black Swan Press)

o Review symposium in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (in press) Bakker, K. (2004) An Uncooperative Commodity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Based on my doctoral thesis, this book explores the conceptual and practical difficulties of privatizing water--a ‘final frontier’ for capitalism—and analyses the impacts of urban water privatization.

BOOKS (edited) Norman, E., Cohen, A., and K. Bakker (Eds.) (2013) Water Without Borders? Canada, the United States, and shared waters. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. This book brought together academics and practitioners working across North America on transboundary issues. The book royalties will be donated to the WaterKeeper Alliance, and the book has been endorsed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (www.waterwithoutborders.info). Lankford, B., Bakker, K., Zeitoun, M., and Conway, D., (Eds.) (2013) Water Security: Principles, perspectives, and practices. London: Routledge. Co-edited with colleagues at the University of East Anglia’s Water Security Center, this book explores interdisciplinary perspectives on water security, and queries the securitization and sustainability discourses mobilized in water debates. Bakker, K. (ed.) (2006) Eau Canada: The future of water governance in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press. This book brought together scholars in a range of disciplines--urban studies, environmental studies, engineering, environmental science, political science, law, indigenous studies—in an interdisciplinary examination of some of Canada’s most pressing water issues.


PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Dunn, G., Harris, L., and K. Bakker. (under review) Water governance challenges: Comparative

assessment of approaches. Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering. Cohen, A. and K. Bakker. (in press) The eco-scalar fix: Rescaling environmental governance and

the politics of ecological boundaries. Environment and Planning D. Bakker, K. and C. Morinville (2013) ‘The Governance Dimensions of Water Security: A review.’

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. 371 (2002), 20130116; doi:10.1098/rsta.2013.0116.

Norman, E., Dunn, G., and K. Bakker (2013) "Water security assessment: integrating governance

and freshwater indicators." Water Resources Management 27.2 (2013): 535-551. Bakker, K. (2013) Constructing "public" water: The World Bank and water as an object of

development. Environment & Planning D. 31(2), 280-300. Yates, J. and K. Bakker (2013) Neoliberalism and post-neoliberalism in Latin America. Progress in

Human Geography. doi:10.1177/0309132513500372 Bakker, K. (2013) Neoliberal Water: Geographies of Privatization and Resistance. Annals of the

Association of American Geographers, 253-260. Bakker, K. (2012) Water Security: Research challenges and opportunities. Science. 337, 914. Cook, C. and K. Bakker (2012) Water Security: Debating an emerging paradigm. Global

Environmental Change. 22(1), 94-102. Furlong, K. and K. Bakker (2011) Municipal water governance and sustainability: Recent

developments and current debates. Canadian Public Policy 37(2), 219-237. Dunn, G. and K. Bakker (2011) Assessing water security in Canada: An inventory and analysis of

indices and indicators. Canadian Water Resources Association Journal, 36(2), 135-148. Bakker, K. and C. Cook. (2011) Water Governance in Canada: Innovation in the context of

jurisdictional fragmentation. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 27(2), 275-289.

Norman, E. and K. Bakker. (2010) Recent Developments in Canadian Water Policy: An

emerging water security paradigm. Canadian Water Resources Association Journal. 36(1), 53-66.

Bakker, K. (2010) The limits of “neoliberal natures”: Debating ‘green neoliberalism’. Progress in

Human Geography. 34(6), 715 – 735.


Furlong, K. and Bakker, K. (2010) The contradictions of ‘good’ governance: Business Models, Alternative Service Delivery, and Sustainability in Municipal Water Supply. Environment and Planning C, 28(2), 349 – 368.

Bakker, K. (2010) Participation du secteur privé à la gestion des services des eaux : Tendances

récentes et débats dans les pays en voie de développement. Espaces et Societés 139, 91-105. Cohen, A. and Bakker, K. (2010) Comparing groundwater regulation and enforcement across the

Canada-US border. International Journal of Water, 5(3), 246-266. Norman, E. and Bakker, K. (2009) Transgressing scales: Transboundary water governance

between Canada and the US. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 99(1), 99-117.

Bakker, K. (2008) The ambiguity of community: Debating alternatives to water supply

privatization. Water Alternatives, 1(2), 236-252. Bakker, K., Kooy, M., Shofiani, E., and Martijn, E.J. (2008) Governance failure: Rethinking the

institutional dimensions of urban water supply to poor households. World Development, 36(10), 1891-1915.

Hill, C., Furlong, K., Bakker, K., and Cohen, A. (2008) Harmonization versus Subsidiarity:

Emerging Trends in Water Governance in Canada. Canadian Water Resources Association Journal 33(4), 1 – 18.

Kooy, M. and Bakker, K. (2008a) Splintered networks? Urban water governance in Jakarta.

Geoforum. 39(6), 1843-1858. Kooy, M. and Bakker, K. (2008b) Technologies of Government: Constituting Subjectivities,

Spaces, and Infrastructures in Colonial and Contemporary Jakarta. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 32(2), 375-391.

Bakker, K. (2007) The commons versus the commodity: ‘Alter’-globalization, privatization, and

the human right to water in the global South. Antipode, 39(3), 430-455. Bakker, K. (2007) Trickle down? Private sector participation and the pro-poor water supply

debate in Jakarta, Indonesia. Geoforum, 38(5), 855-868 Bakker, K. and Bridge, G. (2006) Material Worlds: Materiality and the ‘matter of nature’ Progress

in Human Geography, 30(1), 1-23. Bakker, K. (2005) Neoliberalizing nature? Market environmentalism in water supply in England

and Wales. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 95(3), 542–565. Bakker, K. and Cameron, D. (2005) Changing patterns of water governance: Liberalization and

de-regulation in Ontario, Canada. Water Policy, 7(5), 485-508.


Page, B. and Bakker, K. (2005) Water governance and water users in a privatized water industry: Participation in policy-making and in water services provision-a case study of England and Wales. International Journal of Water, 3(1), 38-60.

Lise, W. and Bakker, K. (2005) Economic Regulation of the Water Supply Industry in the UK: A

Game Theoretic Consideration of the Implications for Managing Drought Risk. International Journal of Water, 3(1), 18-37.

Bakker, K. (2003) From archipelago to network: Urbanization and water privatization in the

South. The Geographical Journal, 169(4), 328-341. Bakker. K. (2003) Beyond the privatization debate. Alternatives, 29(2), 17-21. Bakker, K. (2003) From public to private to…mutual? Restructuring water supply governance in

England and Wales. Geoforum, 34(3), 359-374. (Republished as Bakker, K. (2003) Du public au privé au … mutuel? La restructuration de la gouvernance du secteur de l’approvisionnement en eau en Angleterre et au Pays de Galles. Flux, 52/53, 87-99.)

Bakker, K. (2003) A political ecology of water privatization. Studies in Political Economy, 70, 35-

58. Del Moral, L., van de Werff, P., Bakker, K., and Handmer, J. (2003) Global trends and water

policy in Spain. Water International, 28(3), 358-366. Bakker, K. (2002) From state to market: Water mercantilización in Spain. Environment and

Planning A, 34, 767-790. Bakker, K. (2001) Paying for Water: Water charging and equity in England and Wales.

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 26(2), 143-164. Bakker, K. (2000) Privatizing water, producing scarcity: The Yorkshire drought of 1995.

Economic Geography, 76 (1), 4-27. (Reprinted in Anderson, K. and Braun, B. (Eds.) (2008) Environment: Critical Essays in Human Geography. London: Ashgate Publishing.

Bakker, K. and Hemson, D. (2000) Privatizing water: Hydropolitics in the new South Africa.

South African Journal of Geography, 82 (1), 3-12. Bakker, K. (1999) The politics of hydropower: Developing the Mekong. Political Geography,

18(2), 209-232. o Reprinted as Bakker, K. (2003) “The politics of hydropower: Developing the Mekong” in

Preston, P W (ed.) Political Change in East Asia International Library of Social Change in Asia Pacific. Vol II. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 381-404.

Wilson, C. and Bakker, K. (1996) Testing an Identification Algorithm for Extragalactic OB

Associations using a Galactic Sample. Astronomical Journal, 112 (4), 1588-1594.


EDITOR - JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES De Freitas, C., Marston, A., and K. Bakker. (2014 in press) Debating Post-Neoliberalism in Latin America. Special Issue of Geoforum. Norman, E., Cook, C., and K. Bakker. (eds.) (2012) “Water Governance and the Politics of Scale.” Special Issue of Water Alternatives. 5(1), 52-190.

BOOK CHAPTERS Bakker, K. (2013) 'From a 'state hydraulic' to 'market environmentalist' paradigm: Changing

paradigms of urban water supply in developing countries in the 20th century. In V. Scarborough (Ed.) The UNESCO Water Book Project Volume 7: Water and Humanity: Historical Overview. Paris: UNESCO, 197 – 217.

Cook, C. and K. Bakker (2013) Debating the Concept of Water Security. In Lankford, B. et. al.

(eds.) Water Security: Principles and Practice London: Earthscan, 49 – 63. Bakker, K. (2013) Hegemony does not imply homogeneity: Thoughts on the marketization and

privatization of water. In. L. Harris, J. Goldin, C. Sneddon. Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South: Scarcity, Marketization and Participation. London: Routledge, 173 – 176.

Bakker, K. (2012) “The “matter of nature” in economic geography.” In Barnes, T., Peck, J. and E.

Sheppard (eds.) The New Companion to Economic Geography. Wiley-Blackwell. (Feb) Kooy, M. and Bakker, K. (2011) (Post)Colonial pipes urban water supply in colonial and

contemporary Jakarta. In Khusyairi, J., and Rabani, L. (eds.) Kampung Perkotaan: Kajian Historis-Antropologis atas Kesenjangan Sosial dan Ruang Kota. Jakarta: Universitas Airlangga and New Elmatera Publishers, 43-84.

Bakker, K. (2011) Splintered Urbanisms: Water, urban infrastructure, and the modern social

imaginary. In Gandy, M. (ed.) Urban Constellations Matthew Gandy. Berlin: Jovis, 62 - 64. Bakker, K. and M. Kooy (2012) Conflicts over water supply in Jakarta, Indonesia. In Barraque, B.

(Ed.), Urban Water Conflicts, Paris: UNESCO, 195-217. Bakker, K. (2011) The human right to water revisited. In Sultana, F., Budds, J. and Loftus, A.

(eds) The Right to Water. London: Earthscan, 19 – 44. Bakker, K. (2010) Commons versus Commodities: Political ecologies of water privatization. In

Peet, R., Robbins, P., and Watts, M. (Eds.) Global Political Ecology Routledge, 345-368. Norman, E. and K. Bakker (2010) Governing Water across the Canada – U.S. Borderland

Borders and Bridges: Navigating Canada’s International Policy Relations in a North America Context (eds.) G. Hale and M. Gattinger (eds.), Oxford U. Press, 194-212.


Bakker, K. (2009) Water. In Castree, N., Demeritt, D., Liverman, D., and Rhoads, B. (eds) Companion to Environmental Geography Oxford: Blackwell, 515-532.

Bakker, K. (2008) Privatizing water, producing scarcity: The Yorkshire drought of 1995. In

Anderson, K. and Braun, B. (Eds.) Environment: Critical Essays in Human Geography (2008) Series: Contemporary Foundations of Space and Place. London: Ashgate Publishing. Original article published in 2000: Economic Geography 76 (1), 4 – 27.

Bakker, K. (2007) The commons versus the commodity: ‘Alter’-globalization, privatization, and

the human right to water in the global South’ in Mansfield, B. (ed.) Privatization: property and the remaking of nature-society relations. Oxford: Blackwell, 430 – 455.

Bakker, K. (2007) Neoliberalising Nature? In Heynen, N., Robbins, P., Prudham, S., and

McCarthy, C. (Eds.), Unnatural Consequences: The False Promise of Neoliberal Environments (pp. 101-113) London: Routledge.

Bakker, K., Babiano, L., and Giansante, C. (2007) La mercantilización del agua. In Spronk, S.,

and Crespo, C. (Eds.), Después de las Guerras del Agua (pp. 25-70) Bolivia: Plural Press. Bakker, K. (2007) Conflicts over water supply in Jakarta, Indonesia. In Barraque, B. (Ed.), Urban

Water Conflicts (pp. 113-139) London: Taylor and Francis. Bakker, K. (2006) Water is Life. In Laxer, G. (Ed.), Not for Sale Toronto, Broadview, 69-91. Bakker, K. (2003) Gouvernance urbaine et service de l’eau: La participation du secteur privé à

Djakarta. In G. Schneier-Madanes (Ed.), Gestion urbaine, gestion sociale (pp. 165-182) Paris : Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle.

Warwick, C., Bakker, K., Downing T. and Lonsdale, K. (2003) Scenarios as a tool in water

management: considerations of scale and application. In Alsarhan, A. S. and Wood, W. W. (Eds.), Water Resources Perspectives: Evaluation, Management and Policy (pp. 1-20) Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Downing, T. and Bakker, K. (2000) Drought Discourse and Vulnerability. In D. A. Wilhite

(Ed.), Drought Hazards and Disasters (pp. 213-230) London: Routledge. Downing, T. and Bakker, K. (2000) Drought risk in a changing environment. In Vogt, J. and

Somma, F. (Eds.), Drought and drought mitigation in Europe (pp. 70-92) Amsterdam: Kluwer.

Downing, T. and Bakker, K. (1999) Drought. In J. Ingleton (Ed.), Natural Disaster Management:

A presentation to commemorate the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (pp.41-43) Leicester: Tudor Rose.


COMMENTARIES, EDITORIALS, POPULAR PRESS (selected examples)

Bakker, K. (2013 in press) Reinventing the Commons: Urbanization as socio-natural process.

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Special review symposium on Bakker, K. Privatizing Water (Cornell University Press).

Bakker, K. (2012) Water: Political, Biopolitical, Material. Social Studies of Science. 42(4), 616 –

623. doi:10.1177/0306312712441396 Bakker, K. (2012) ‘Prêt à Manger.” Dissent April. Bakker, K. (2009) Commentary: Neoliberal nature, ecological fixes, and the pitfalls of

comparative research. Environment and Planning A, 41, 1781-1787. Bakker, K. (2009) Water Security: Canada’s Challenge Policy Options Montreal: Institute for

Research on Public Policy. June/July. Bakker, K. (2007) ‘’ New land use curbs to protect water security” Toronto Star. January 26th. Bakker, K. and Kooy, M. (2006) L’eau et la modernité. Courrier de la Planète, 77, 58-61. Bakker, K. (2005) Katrina: The public transcript of disaster. Environment and Planning D: 23,

795-809. Bakker, K. (2003) Le sens de l’événement: Le Sommet Mondial de L’Eau. Flux 52/53, 111-116. Bakker, K. (1999) Deconstructing discourses of drought. Transactions of the Institute of British

Geographers, 24, 367-378. Bakker, K. (1998) (multiple contributors) Lost and found in the posts. Katz, C. (Ed.),

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 16(3), 253-277. Bakker, K. (1996) On the ‘rurban’ fringe. City, 3/4, 147-149.


MONOGRAPHS AND REPORTS

Dunn, G., Cook, C., Allen, D., Bakker, K. (2012) Water Security: Guidance Document. Report

to the Canadian Water Network, University of Waterloo. Bakker, K., and A. Cohen (2011) Collaborative Water Governance and Sustainable Water

Management for Canada’s Natural Resource Sectors. Report to the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy.

Bakker, K. and K. Martin (2010) The Water Dialogues: An International Summary. London:

The Water Dialogues: Multistakeholder Dialogues on Water and the Private Sector. Dunn, G. and Bakker, K. (2010) Assessing Water Security. Vancouver: Program on Water

Governance, University of British Columbia. Nowlan, L. and K. Bakker (2010) Practising Shared Water Governance in Canada: A Primer

Vancouver: Program on Water Governance, University of British Columbia. Norman, E. and Bakker, K. (2010) Water Security: A Primer. Vancouver: Program on Water

Governance, University of British Columbia. Bakker, K. (2009) Water governance in the Venice city-region: A background paper. Prepared for

the Urban Secretariat of the OECD, as part of the Venice Territorial Review. Bakker, K. (2009) Integrated urban water governance, with an emphasis on multi-level

governance. Discussion paper prepared for the Urban Secretariat of the OECD, as part of the Venice Territorial Review.

Bakker, K. (2009) Local control and management of our water commons: Stories of rising to the

challenge. Ottawa, Council of Canadians and Our Water Commons. Furlong, K., and Bakker, K. (2008) Good governance for water conservation: A primer. Program

on Water Governance, University of British Columbia. Furlong, K., and Bakker, K. (2008) Achieving water conservation: Strategies for good governance.

Report to Infrastructure Canada. Nowlan, L., and Bakker, K. (2007) Debating distributed water governance in British Columbia:

Issues and challenges. Report to BC Ministry of Environment. Furlong, K., and Bakker, K. (2007) Water Governance in Transition: Utility restructuring and

water efficiency in Ontario. Report to Infrastructure Canada. Cohen, A., and Bakker, K. (2006) Transboundary groundwater governance in the San Juan and

Gulf Islands. Report to the British Columbia Ministry of the Environment.


Bakker, K., Hill, C., Furlong, K., Cohen, A., MacDonald, J., Schendel, K., Daborn, G., Conant, B., Schreier, H. (2006) The water imperative: Safeguarding Canada’s resources for the future Report commissioned by the Canadian Water Network and Natural Resources Canada.

Bakker, K., Kooy, M., Shofiani, E., and Martijn, E. (2006) Poverty, water supply and

development in Jakarta, Indonesia Background paper for 2006 Human Development Report. New York: United Nations Development Program.

Bakker, K. (2006) ‘Conflicts over water supply in Jakarta’ in Barraqué, B. and Vlachos, E (eds)

Urban Water Conflicts, an analysis on the origins and nature of water-related un rest and conflicts in the urban context. Paris: UNESCO Working paper series SC-2006/WS/19.

Bakker, K. and E. Norman (2005) Conflict or Cooperation: Transboundary water governance

along the Canada-US border. Report commissioned by the Gordon Foundation. Bakker, K. (2004) Canada and the New American Empire: Private Sector Participation in Water

Supply. Briefing Note commissioned by the University of Victoria’s Centre for Global Studies.

Bakker, K., with D. Cameron and A. Hurley (2004) Public Private Partnership: An Instrument

for Sustainable Water Management? Report commissioned by Environment Canada, April. Bakker, K. (2003) Good governance in municipal restructuring of water supply. Federation of

Canadian Municipalities and Program on Water Issues, Munk Centre for International Studies.

Bakker, K. with D. Cameron (2002) Setting a Direction in Hamilton: Good governance in

municipal restructuring of water and wastewater services in Canada. Program on Water Issues, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto.

Bakker, K. (ed.) (1999) A framework for institutional analysis: managing changing flood and

drought risk Environmental Change Institute, Oxford. Bakker, K. (1999) Societal and Institutional Responses to Climatic Change and Climatic

Hazards: Managing Changing Flood and Drought Risk: A Framework for Institutional Analysis. Oxford: Environmental Change Unit.


BOOK REVIEWS

Bakker, K. (2010) Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong Region: Hydropower, Livelihoods

and Governance. Ed. F. Molle (London: Earthscan) Mountain Research and Development. 30(4), 407-408.

Bakker, K. (2006) The Meaning of Water By. V. Strang (Oxford: Berg Press) Progress in

Human Geography 30(5), 37 - 40. Bakker, K. (2006) The Age of Commodity McDonald, D. and Ruiters, G. (London:

Earthscan). Natural Resources Forum 20, 78 –79. Bakker, K. (2004) Water Wars: Privatization, pollution and profit By V. Shiva (London: Pluto

Press). Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. 6 (3/4), 315 - 317. Bakker, K. (2004) Just Sustainabilities. (Eds.) Agyeman, Buller and Evans (London:

Earthscan) Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 22(1), 153 – 154. Bakker, K. (2003) Siting Environmentally Unwanted Facilities: Risks, Trade-offs and Choices

by E. Quah, and K C Tan. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar) 21(5).

Bakker, K. (2003) Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City by M Gandy

(Cambridge, MIT Press). Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 21(3), 377 – 378.

Bakker, K. (2002) Montréal: The Quest for a Metropolis by Annick Germain and Damaris

Rose (Chichester, John Wiley). European Planning Studies 10 (8), 1047 – 1048. Bakker, K. (2002) The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World. By

B. Lomberg (Cambridge University Press). Reviewed in Survival. Summer: 168 – 169. Bakker, K. (2001) Regulating pollution: A UK and EC perspective. By Chris Hilson (Portland,

Oregon: Hart Publishing). Reviewed in Environment and Planning C: Government & Policy. 19(6), 934 – 935.

Bakker, K. (2000) Water, Environment and Society in Times of Climate Change by A. S. Issar

and N. Brown (eds.) Reviewed in Progress in Physical Geography. 24(2), 299 – 300. Bakker, K. (1999) Environmental Management by Geoff Wilson and Raymond Bryant

(London: UCL Press). Reviewed in European Planning Studies, 7(3), 373 – 374. Bakker, K. (1998) City – Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy and Action

Reviewed in European Planning Studies 6(1), 108 – 109.


MEMBERSHIP OF EDITORIAL BOARDS AND SCHOLARLY NETWORKS Member of Editorial Boards • Senior Editor, Wiley WIRES journal (new interdisciplinary water journal) (2012 – present) • Annals of the AAG (2011 – present) • Geoforum (2011 – present) • Advisory Board, Urban Lab (University College London) (2009 – present) • Environnement Urbain (2006 – present) • Studies in Political Economy (2004 – present) • Water Alternatives (2008 – present) Member of Scholarly Networks, Boards, Societies • American Association of Geographers • Canadian Association of Geographers • Institute of British Geographers/Royal Geographical Society • Canadian Water Resources Association • American Association for the Advancement of Science • Justicía Hídrica research network (Wageningen University) • Universitas 21 Water research network • Res-Eau-Ville research network (CNRS, France) • Studies in Political Economy research network

REVIEWER

I have acted as a reviewer for several dozen journals in several fields, including: Environmental Management Environment and Planning Environment and Society Environnement Urbain Global Environmental Change Global Environmental Politics Global Policy Integrated Assessment International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Natural Resources Forum Journal of Rural Studies New Political Economy Oxford Review of Development Studies Studies in Political Economy Science Urban Studies Utilities Policy Water Alternatives Water International Water Policy Water Resources Research World Development


Reviewer for book proposals/manuscripts for:

o Imperial College Press (2001) o Oxford University Press (2010) o Routledge (2003) o Sage (2006) o Stockholm University Press (2006) o UBC Press (2005) o University of Arizona (2007) o Wiley-Blackwell (2010)

Reviewer of grant applications for:

o Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (multiple years) o ESRC (2009) o French National Research Agency (ANR) (2008) o Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (2004, 2006) o Academy of Finland (2004, 2005, 2006, 2010) o Fondation IDDRI (France) (2008) o Swiss National Science Foundation (2013) o National Science Foundation (various years)

External examiner:

o University of Sydney o Université Laval o Stockholm University o McGill University

Reviewer for tenure and promotion for:

o Yale/NUS (2012) o UC Berkeley (2012) o University of California-Santa Cruz (2012) o Rutgers (2012) o Ohio State University (2012) o University of Syracuse (2011) o University of Waterloo (2011) o University of Wisconsin-Madison (2010)


INVITED LECTURER (SELECTED EXAMPLES) Bakker, K. (2013) Commons versus Commodities: Water Privatization and the Global Water

‘Crisis’. Rik Davidson/Studies in Political Economy Book Prize Lecture. University of Victoria.

Bakker, K. (2013) Transboundary water governance in North America: Opportunities and

Challenges. Visiting delegation of the International Joint Commission, UBC. Bakker, K. (2012) Water security and the global water ‘crisis’. Department of Geography and

Development/Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona, October. Bakker, K. (2012) Water security and the global water ‘crisis’. Department of Geography.

University of Oregon, October. Bakker, K. (2012) Political ecology and the marketization of water: Privatization, water grabbing,

and alternatives to neoliberalism. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Invited keynote speaker: Launch of European Network on Political Ecology/European Summer School on Political Ecology. Barcelona, Spain.

Bakker, K. (2012) The future of water governance. UNESCO-IHE. Delft, The Netherlands. Bakker, K. (2012) Water Security and the Global Water Crisis. University of Montpellier (Paul-

Valery 3)/CNRS ART-DEV. Montpellier, France. Bakker, K. (2012) ‘Water Privatization and Global Water Security: Critical Issues’. Topical

Lecture (one of only 12 selected speakers) at the annual conference of the American Association for Advancement of Science, Vancouver.

Bakker, K. and C. Cook (2011) Critical Perspectives on Water Security. Presented at the

University of East Anglia Water Security Workshop, London (UK). Bakker, K. and D. Allen (2011) ‘Water Security: Developing a Research Agenda.’ Presented to

the Canadian Water Network meeting, Toronto. Bakker, K. (2011) Collaborative Water Governance in Canada: Emerging Trends and Challenges.

National Round Table on Environment and Economy joint workshop, Edmonton. Bakker, K. (2011) ‘Water Security: Key issues for Canada.” Presented to the Council of Canadian

Ministers on the Environment (WADC), Whitehorse. Bakker, K. and E. Norman (2011) ‘Water Security: Risk and Governance Issues.’ Presented at the

Canadian Water Network national conference, Ottawa. Bakker, K. (2009) ‘The ambiguity of community: Debating the governance of the commons.’

Presented at the Environmental Politics Colloquium, University of California-Berkeley.


Bakker, K. (2009) ‘Water Security: Policy dimensions of a global challenge.’ Presented at the University of Saskatchewan, School of Environment and Sustainability/School of Public Policy.

Bakker, K. (2009) ‘The limits to neoliberal natures.’ Presented in the Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture Series,

University of Wisconsin-Madison. Bakker K. (2009) ‘Debating Neoliberal Nature.’ Presented at the Antipode Summer Institute.

University of Manchester, School of Environment and Development. Manchester. Bakker, K. (2008) ‘Writing from the diaspora: Strategies for publishing in Anglo-Saxon journals.’

presented at the LATTS/CNRS RIT seminar, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris.

Bakker, K. (2006) ‘Public or Private? The commercial challenge to water governance.’ Presented at

the Royal Society of Canada National Symposium on Water. Ottawa. Bakker, K. (2004) Invited panellist ‘Canada and the New American Empire’ conference, Centre for

Global Studies, University of Victoria. Bakker, K. (2002) ‘A la frontière du marché? La privatization de l’eau potable en Angleterre.’

LATTS/Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussés. Paris. Bakker, K. (2001) ‘La mercantilización del agua’ presented at the Centro de Estudios de

Planificación y Gestión, University of San Simon, Cochabamba, Bolivia. Bakker, K. (2001) ‘At the frontier of the market? Privatizing Water in England and Wales’

presented at Nuffield College Social and Political History Seminar Series, Oxford University. Bakker, K. (2001) ‘Water privatization and globalization’ presented at the York University

International Political Economy-Ecology Summer School, hosted by the Department of Political Science and Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto.

Bakker, K. (2000) ‘Privatizing water in England and Wales’ presented at the Department of

Geography colloquium series, University College London. Bakker, K. (1997) ‘Using Water Wisely? Resource Management in the Thames Region’,

presented at SOAS, University College London.


CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Dunn, G., Harris, L., and K. Bakker. (2013) Factors that facilitate and constrain microbial risk

governance in watersheds. Water Quality Technology Conference, American Water Works Association. Los Angeles.

Bakker, K. and A. Cohen (2013) The socio-ecological fix. Annual conference of the Association

of American Geographers. Los Angeles. Bakker, K. and L. Harris (2013) Debating Water Equity: Views on community, citizenship, and

belonging from political ecology to political economy and beyond. Water Equity Workshop. University of California-Santa Cruz.

Bakker, K. (2012) Critiquing the human right to water. Human Right to Water Workshop,

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University. Bakker, K. (2012) Privatizing Water: The Global Debate. Reimagining Water Conference, Emily

Carr University. Bakker, K. (2012) Panarchy, post-humanism, and environmental politics. Annual conference of

the Association of American Geographers. New York. Bakker, K. (2012) Water Security: Competing Perspectives, Multidisciplinary Challenges. Annual

Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Vancouver. Cook, C. and K. Bakker (2011) Water Security: Critiquing an Emerging Paradigm. University of

East Anglia, Water Security Workshop. Bakker, K. (2011) Thoughts on the agency of nature. International Critical Geography

conference, Goethe University, Frankfurt. Bakker, K. (2011) The biopolitics of water: The case of the World Bank. Royal Geographical

Society. Institute of British Geographers annual conference, London. Allen D.M., K. Bakker, G. Dunn, E. Norman, M.W. Simpson and R. Cavalcanti de

Albuquerque (2011) Risk and Status Assessment for Water Security. Presented at the Canadian Water Resources Association annual conference, St John’s.

Bakker, K. “Rethinking neoliberalism, rethinking nature.” (2011) Presented at the Annual

Association of American Geographers conference, Seattle. Norman, E., Dunn, G., Bakker, K., Allen, D., Calvacanti, R., (2011) Water Security.

Presentation at the national Canadian Water Network annual conference, Ottawa. Norman, E., Dunn, G., Bakker, K., Allen, D., Calvacanti, R., (2011) Water Security: Status,

Risk, Governance. Poster presentation to the national Canadian Water Network annual conference, Ottawa.


Bakker, K. (2011) “Shared Water Governance in Transition.” Presented to the National Round

Table on the Environment and the Economy. Workshop on the North Saskatchewan. Bakker, K. (2011) “Shared Water Governance in Transition.” Presented at the National Round

Table on the Environment and the Economy. Workshop on the Okanagan Basin. Allen D.M., K. Bakker, G. Dunn, E. Norman, M.W. Simpson and R. Cavalcanti de

Albuquerque (2011) A Water Security Framework for Community-Level Assessment. Presented at the Canadian Water Resources Association annual conference, Vancouver.

Allen, D., Bakker, K., Simpson, M., Dunn, G., and Norman, E. (2010) Incorporating Risk and

Indicators into a Water Security Framework. Presented at the American Geophysical Union annual conference, San Francisco.

Bakker, K and Allen, D. (2010) ‘Water Security: The case for an integrated approach.’ Canadian

Water Resources Association annual conference, Vancouver. Cook, C. and Bakker, K. (2010) ‘Water Security: A meta-analysis.’ Canadian Water Resources

Association annual conference, Vancouver. Bakker, K. (2010) ‘The Limits of Neoliberal Nature: Reflections on post-neoliberalism and the

end of nature.’ Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington. Cook, C. and K. Bakker (2010) ‘Water Security.’ Annual Meeting of the Association of American

Geographers, Washington. Bakker, K. (2010) ‘Water Security: Canada’s challenge.’ Canadian Water: Towards a New

Strategy. McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, McGill University. Bakker, K. (2010) ‘Splintering urbanism? Debating the urban infrastructure question in the global

South.’ Urban Affairs Association annual conference. Kooy, M. and Bakker, K. (2010) ‘(Post)Colonial pipes: urban water supply in colonial and

contemporary Jakarta.’ Presented at the International Conference on the Urban Kampong, Surabaya, Indonesia.

Bakker, K. (2009) ‘Pathways to good water governance.’ Presented at the 5th World Water Forum,

Istanbul. UNESCO and World Water Council. Bakker, K. (2009) ‘Urban water partnerships and private sector participation: An update on recent

trends.’ Presented at the 5th World Water Forum, Istanbul. UNESCO and World Water Council.

Bakker, K. (2009) ‘The challenge of liberal environmentalism.’ Presented at the conference on

Water Law Reforms and the Right to Water. Geneva: International Environmental Law Research Centre, and London: SOAS.


Bakker, K. (2009) ‘North-South experiences of privatization in dialogue.’ Presented at the

conference on Water Law Reforms and the Right to Water. Geneva (International Environmental Law Research Centre) and London (SOAS).

Bakker, K. (2008) ‘Meeting the Challenge of Water Security.’ Canadian Water Network Annual

Conference. Victoria. Norman, E. and K. Bakker (2008) ‘Transgressing Scales: Water Governance across the Canada-

US border.’ Canadian Association of Political Science Conference, Vancouver. Bakker, K. (2008) ‘Private Sector Participation in Public Services Provision: The Case of

Networked Water Supply.’ Paper presented at the Canadian Association for Studies in Development Conference, Vancouver.

Cohen, A. and K. Bakker (2007) ‘Straddling the border: Transboundary groundwater

management in the Gulf Islands (BC) and the San Juan Islands (Washington).’ Canadian Water Resources Association Annual Conference.

Bakker, K. (2007) ‘The commons versus the commodity: ‘Alter’-globalization, privatization, and

water in the global South’ Session: The Socioecological Nature of Water II: Water Rights and Privatization. Organizers: J. Budds, F. Sultana. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco.

Norman, E. and K. Bakker (2007) ‘Transgressing Scales: Water Governance across the Canada-

US Borderland. Session: More Than a Line on a Map: Border Geographies across the Globe.’ Organizer: L. Dennis. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco.

Bakker, K. (2007) ‘The future of Canada’s water: Threats, myths, and the (false) spectre of the

thirsty United States’. Presented at the Peter Wall Institute., UBC. Bakker, K. (2006) ‘Water Governance in Canada: Critical Issues.’ Water in the City conference,

University of Victoria. Furlong, K. and K. Bakker (2006) ‘Good Governance for Water Conservation.’ Poster

presentation. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Water Network, Montreal. Norman, E. and K. Bakker (2006) ‘Transboundary water governance across the Canada-US

borderlands’. Paper presentation at the Annual Association of American Geographers meeting. Chicago.

Bakker, K. (2006) Commercialization, Corporatization, and Private Sector Participation: The

water governance challenge. Presented at the National Water Sustainable Strategy Workshop. Winnipeg.


Bakker, K. and M. Kooy (2005) Urbanization and water supply in developing countries: From a ‘state hydraulic’ to ‘market environmentalist’ water control paradigm?’ Presented at the International Water History Association conference. UNESCO, Paris.

Bakker, K. and M. Kooy (2005) ‘Splintered Networks? Water, Power, and Knowledge in Jakarta:

1870 – 1945’ Placing Splintering Urbanism: Changing Network Service Provision and Urban Dynamics in Cross-National Perspective. Workshop. Laboratoire Techniques Territoires Sociétés/Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.

Bakker, K. (2005) ‘Neoliberalising Nature’ Paper presented in session on Privatization: Property,

Nature, and Subjectivities. Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers. Denver.

Bakker, K. (2003) ‘Good governance in municipal water supply’ Presented at the Water Utilities

in British Columbia: Industry Challenges and P3 Experiences conference, British Columbia Water & Waste Association, Vancouver.

Bakker, K. (2003) ‘Privatizing and re-regulating the British water supply industry.’ Presented at

the annual meeting of the International Geographical Union’s Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Space, Vancouver.

Bakker, K. (2003) ‘The global water supply challenge’ Presented at the ‘Mutual vulnerability,

mutual dependence’ Exploratory Workshop, Peter Wall Institute, UBC. Bakker, K. (2002) ‘From commons to commodity? Privatizing and commercialising water supply.’

Presented at the Water and the Future of Life on Earth Conference Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Bakker, K. (2002) ‘From public to private to…public? Privatization, commercialisation, and recent

proposals for mutualisation of water supply in England and Wales’ presented at the Municipal Services Project conference, University of the Witwatersrand and Queen’s University, Johannesburg.

Bakker, K. (2002) ‘From public to private to…public? Privatization, commercialisation, and recent

proposals for mutualisation of urban water supply’ presented at the PRINWASS conference, Oxford University.

Bakker. K. (2002) ‘A political ecology of water privatization’ presented at the Social and Political

Ecology conference, Carleton University, Ottawa. Bakker, K. (2002) ‘Urbanisation and water privatization: Megacities and urban nature’ presented

at the Annual Conference of the Institute of British Geographers. Belfast. Bakker, K. (2001) ‘Privatizing Water in England and Wales: Equity, efficiency, and ownership ‘

presented at the International History of Water Association conference, Bergen.


Bakker, K. (2001) ‘Evolving approaches to equity in water pricing’ presented at the American Water Resources Association ‘Water and Law’ conference, Dundee.

Bakker, K. (2001) ‘From state to market: Water mercantilización in Spain’ presented at the

Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, New York. Bakker, K. (2000) 'Theorizing urban water ecology' presented at Political Ecologies of Water and

Cities conference, York University, Toronto. Bakker, K. (2000) 'The greening of capitalism? The industrialisation of urban water in England

and Wales' presented at the conference of the American Association of Geographers Pittsburgh.

Bakker, K. (1999) ‘Privatizing Water? Hydropolitics in contemporary South Africa’, presented at

the Institute of British Geographers annual conference, Leicester. Bakker, K. (1999) ‘The politics of hydropower: developing the Mekong’, presented at Cambodia:

Towards a Better Future, Oxford University. Bakker, K. (1999) ‘Understanding responses to extreme hydrological events: an institutional

analysis perspective’, presented at the Erasmus/Socrates network conference on ‘Water Conflicts in the Mediterranean’, University of Cagliari, Sardinia.

Bakker, K. (1998) ‘Privatizing Water, Producing Scarcity’, presented at the Institute of British

Geographers’ annual conference, Guildford. Bakker, K. (1998) ‘Hydropower and Hydropolitics: Developing the Greater Mekong Sub-region’,

presented at the American Association of Geographer’s annual conference, Boston. Bakker, K. (1998) ‘Think globally, sell locally: Thames Water plc’, presented at Technological

Futures – Urban Futures workshop, University of Newcastle, Durham.


CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP LEADERSHIP ROLES

2012 Facilitator Conference: Women in Academic Leadership, UBC 2012 Co-organizer Session. The Biopolitics of Resilience. Annual Conference of the Association of

American Geographers, New York. 2012 Co-organizer Session. Post-Neoliberal Natures. Annual Conference of the Association of

American Geographers, New York, February. Co-organized with L. Harris. 2012 Co-organizer Panel. Neoliberal Natures in Latin America. Annual Conference of the

Association of American Geographers, New York, February. 2012 Co-organizer Session: Water Security in Canada. Public Panel Session, co-hosted by the

AAAS and the Royal Society of Canada. Vancouver. 2011 Co-organizer Session: Imagining Water: Politics, Bio-politics, and Post-politics (paper session).

Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers. London.

2011 Co-organizer and Chair Session: The Agency of Nature International Critical Geography

Conference, Frankfurt. 2011 Co-organizer Workshop: Water Without Borders? Debating US-Canada Transboundary Water

Governance. UBC. 2011 Co-organizer and Chair Session: The Limits of Neoliberal Natures. Annual Conference of the

Association of American Geographers. 2011 Co-organizer Session: Water governance and the politics of scale Annual Conference of the

Association of American Geographers. 2011 Co-organizer Workshop: Gender Pay Equity for Women Faculty. UBC. 2010 Co-organizer Session: Beyond Neoliberal Nature: Non-human natures and a (post?)neoliberal

world. Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Washington.

2010 Panelist Workshop: Theorizing the Hydro-social Cycle. Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Washington.

2010 Organizer Panel: Making UBC Work for Women Faculty, UBC. 2009 Co-organizer and Chair Workshop: Water Security in Canada, Canadian Water

Network/Program on Water Governance, Vancouver.


2008 Co-organizer Workshop: Privatization and Urban Public Services, Peter Wall Institute Distinguished Scholar in Residence Workshop, Vancouver.

2007 Co-organizer Workshop: The ‘Nature’ of Urban Political Ecology. Annual Conference of the

Association of American Geographers, San Francisco. 2007 Co-organiser, Panel: Post-metabolism: theoretical contestations in the urban arena. Annual

Conference of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco. 2007 Co-organizer Workshop: Changing Patterns of Municipal Water Governance, Peter Wall

Institute, UBC, April 13. 2006 Organizer Workshop: Watersheds and Source Protection: Governance, Science, Health. Peter

Wall Institute, UBC, November. 2006 Organizer Panel: Water and the City conference, University of Victoria. 2006 Co-organizer Session: ‘Relations of Rule: Nature, (post)colonialism, governmentality,

infrastructure.’ Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago. 2005 Organizer Workshop: ‘Water, Governance, and Health’ Peter Wall Institute, UBC. 2005 Co-organizer Workshop: ‘Water and Citizenship’, University of Indonesia. 2004 Organizer of Workshop: ‘Re-naturing the Urban’, University of Oxford. 2003 Co-organizer Panel: ‘Material Worlds’ Annual Conference of the American Association of

Geographers, New Orleans. 2002 Co-organizer Workshop: Whither Water in England and Wales? Oxford. 2000 Co-organizer Conference: Political Ecologies of Water and Cities, York University.


SERVICE (selected examples)

University • Member, PWIAS Communications Committee (2013 – ) • Member, Provost’s Flexible Distance Learning Committee (2012 – ) • Member, Killam Post-doctoral Awards Committee, IRES (2012— ) • Member, Canada Research Chair in Food Security Search Committee(2012) • Member, Promotion & Tenure Review Committee, Faculty of Arts, UBC (2012 –) • Member, UBC Status of Women Faculty Committee (2011 – 2012 ) • Member, Dean of Arts Committee: Environment and Society Minor (2010 – 2012) • Co-Chair, UBC Structural Measures Working Group (2010 – 2011) • Co-Chair, Joint Working Group on Pay Equity (2010 – 2011) • Member, Dean’s Search Committee, Faculty of Arts (2009 – 2010) • Member, Faculty Association Executive (2009 – 2011) • Chair, Status of Women Committee, Faculty Association (2009 – 2011) • Member, Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) Review Committee (2008) • Member, Search Committee (Assistant Professor, IRES) (2007) • Member, Search Committee (Head, Office of Research Services) (2007) • Member, Faculty of Graduate Studies Search Committee for the Director of IRES (2006) • Member, Selection Committee, O’Riordan Doctoral Fellowship, FoGS (2005) • Member, Faculty of Graduate Studies Search Committee, CRC Aquatic Sciences (2005) Department • Chair, Environment and Sustainability Review Committee (2013) • Chair, Curriculum Committee (2011 - 2013) • Member, Awards Committee (2012) • Member, Head Search Committee (2011/2012) • Member, CRC Sustainability Search Committee (2011/2012) • Chair, Biogeography Search Committee (2011/2012) • Co-Chair, Colloquium Committee, Department of Geography (2010/2011) • Member, Search Committee (teaching post-doctoral fellowship), Geography (2010) • Co-Chair, Colloquium Committee, Department of Geography (2009/2010) • Member, Awards Committee, Department of Geography (2009/2010) • Member, Search Committee (Climatology), Department of Geography (2005/06) • Member, Department of Geography Graduate Committee (2005 – 2008) • Member, Faculty of Arts Search Committee, Head of Department of Geography (2005) Community • Class Leader, Rhodes Trust community (2013 –) • Member, Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee (2003 – 2006, 2009) • Member, National SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships Selection Committee (2006-2007) • Member, Water Advisory Group, Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation (2005 - 2007)


PO L I C Y EX P E R I E N C E (Selected Examples)

o UK Department for International Development (2012) Member, stakeholder group, research on effectiveness of water institutions

o OECD Urban Secretariat (2009) Territorial review of water-related aspects of Venice city-region

o UNESCO (2009) Research network on urban water conflicts

o United Nations Development Program (2005) Background paper for Human Development Report on urban water in Jakarta

o Federation of Canadian Municipalities (2003) Advisor on municipal infrastructure governance

FI E L D W O R K EX P E R I E N C E

Fieldwork in Argentina, Bolivia, Canada, Cambodia, France, India, Indonesia, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

LANGUAGES English (native); French (bilingual); Spanish (functional).

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