Globalization and Governance

Major themes:

  • Non-traditional mechanisms of global environmental governance
  • Stakeholder governance models
  • Transnational social movements

Publications:

Ken Conca, Governing Water ( Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005).
 
Virginia Haufler, A Public Role for the Private Sector: Industry Self-Regulation in a Global Economy (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2001).
A. Claire Cutler , Virginia Haufler, and Tony Porter, eds., Private Authority and International Affairs (SUNY Press, 1999).
 

Virginia Haufler, Dangerous Commerce: Insurance and the Management of International Risk (Cornell University Press, 1997).

 
   
  Is There a Global Rivers Regime? The Principled Content of International River Agreements. A Harrison Research Report by Ken Conca and Fengshi Wu, and Joanne Neukirchen. September 2003.

 

Harrison Symposium I (March 2002):
The World Commission on Dams: A Model for Global Environmental Governance?  

with contributors Ken Conca, Navroz Dubash, Mairi Dupar, Minu Hemmati, Smitu Kothari and Tundu Lissu
 

 

 

Harrison Symposium II (September 2002):
A Decade Since Rio : What Legacy for the Earth Summit ?

 with contributors Frank Biermann, Ken Conca, Matthias Finger, Helen Ingram, Pedro Jacobi, Yasuko Kameyama, Bryan McDonald, and Adil Najam

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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