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The Politics of Water Science: On Unresolved Water Problems and Biased Research Agendas Unavailable
Joyeeta Gupta,
Joyeeta Gupta
Joyeeta Gupta is Professor of Climate Change Law and Policy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and of Water Law and Policy at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft. She is editor-in-chief of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics and is on the editorial board of Carbon and Climate Law Review, International Journal on Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Policy, and International Community Law Review. She was lead author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that recently shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. She is on the scientific steering committees of, amongst others, the Global Water Systems Project and the Earth System Governance project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change.
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Pieter van der Zaag
Pieter van der Zaag
Pieter van der Zaag teaches integrated water resources management at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, The Netherlands, and holds a Professorship at Delft University of Technology. He has been involved in a number of multidisciplinary research and capacity building projects in Ethiopia, Ghana, Mexico, Mozambique, Peru, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa and Zimbabwe. He sits on the Academic Board of the Water Research Fund for Southern Africa WARFSA, and on the Editorial Board of the international journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. He is member of the IAHS committee on Integrated Water Resources Management and a scientific advisor of the International Foundation for Science.
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Joyeeta Gupta
Joyeeta Gupta is Professor of Climate Change Law and Policy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and of Water Law and Policy at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft. She is editor-in-chief of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics and is on the editorial board of Carbon and Climate Law Review, International Journal on Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Policy, and International Community Law Review. She was lead author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that recently shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. She is on the scientific steering committees of, amongst others, the Global Water Systems Project and the Earth System Governance project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change.
Pieter van der Zaag
Pieter van der Zaag teaches integrated water resources management at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, The Netherlands, and holds a Professorship at Delft University of Technology. He has been involved in a number of multidisciplinary research and capacity building projects in Ethiopia, Ghana, Mexico, Mozambique, Peru, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa and Zimbabwe. He sits on the Academic Board of the Water Research Fund for Southern Africa WARFSA, and on the Editorial Board of the international journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. He is member of the IAHS committee on Integrated Water Resources Management and a scientific advisor of the International Foundation for Science.
*An earlier version of this paper was presented at the European Geophysical Union General Assembly in Vienna, 18 April 2008. We are grateful to Patricia Darvis for comparing the Scopus bibliometric data with the ISI Web of Science database. We are indebted for the valuable comments by two anonymous reviewers. Joyeeta Gupta wishes to acknowledge that her contribution to this paper was undertaken in the context of the “Inter-governmental and private environmental regimes and compatibility with good governance, rule of law and sustainable development” project, which is financially supported by NWO, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (Contract: 452-02-031).
Online ISSN: 1536-0091
Print ISSN: 1526-3800
© 2009 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2009
Global Environmental Politics (2009) 9 (2): 14–23.
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Joyeeta Gupta, Pieter van der Zaag; The Politics of Water Science: On Unresolved Water Problems and Biased Research Agendas. Global Environmental Politics 2009; 9 (2): 14–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/glep.2009.9.2.14
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