Karen Bakker

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Karen Bakker is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, University of Oxford, University of British Columbia, University of Toronto

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#2959

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#435

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#625

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Karen Bakker's Degrees

PhD Geography University of California, Berkeley
Masters Geography University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Geography University of British Columbia

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According to Wikipedia, Karen Bakker was a Canadian author, researcher, and entrepreneur known for her work on digital transformation, environmental governance, and sustainability. A Rhodes Scholar with a DPhil from Oxford, Bakker was a professor at the University of British Columbia. In 2022–2023 she was on sabbatical leave at Harvard, as a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow. She was the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Stanford University's Annenberg Fellowship in Communication, Canada's "Top 40 Under 40", and a Trudeau Foundation Fellowship.

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Karen Bakker's Published Works

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The “Commons” Versus the “Commodity”: Alter‐globalization, Anti‐privatization and the Human Right to Water in the Global South (2007) (704)
Material worlds? Resource geographies and the `matter of nature' (2006) (630)
Neoliberalizing Nature? Market Environmentalism in Water Supply in England and Wales (2005) (595)
Water security: Debating an emerging paradigm (2012) (569)
An Uncooperative Commodity: Privatizing Water in England and Wales (2004) (416)
Water Security: Research Challenges and Opportunities (2012) (391)
The limits of ‘neoliberal natures’: Debating green neoliberalism (2010) (382)
Archipelagos and networks: urbanization and water privatization in the South (2003) (345)
Governance Failure: Rethinking the Institutional Dimensions of Urban Water Supply to Poor Households (2008) (257)
The politics of hydropower: developing the Mekong (1999) (232)
Privatizing Water, Producing Scarcity: The Yorkshire Drought of 1995* (2000) (201)
From State to Market?: Water Mercantilización in Spain (2002) (195)
Water: Political, biopolitical, material (2012) (188)
Transgressing Scales: Water Governance Across the Canada–U.S. Borderland (2009) (187)
Technologies of Government: Constituting Subjectivities, Spaces, and Infrastructures in Colonial and Contemporary Jakarta (2008) (186)
A Political Ecology of Water Privatization (2003) (179)
Water Governance in Canada: Innovation and Fragmentation (2011) (173)
Splintered networks: The colonial and contemporary waters of Jakarta (2008) (166)
The Ambiguity of Community: Debating Alternatives to Private-Sector Provision of Urban Water Supply (2008) (165)
Privatizing Water: Governance Failure and the World's Urban Water Crisis (2010) (159)
Paying for water: water pricing and equity in England and Wales (2001) (150)
Debating the ‘post-neoliberal turn’ in Latin America (2014) (150)
Neoliberal Nature, Ecological Fixes, and the Pitfalls of Comparative Research (2009) (135)
The governance dimensions of water security: a review (2013) (127)
From public to private to ... mutual? Restructuring water supply governance in England and Wales (2003) (118)
The Eco-Scalar Fix: Rescaling Environmental Governance and the Politics of Ecological Boundaries in Alberta, Canada (2014) (114)
Trickle Down? Private sector participation and the pro-poor water supply debate in Jakarta, Indonesia (2007) (110)
Neoliberal Versus Postneoliberal Water: Geographies of Privatization and Resistance (2013) (103)
Smart Earth: A meta-review and implications for environmental governance (2018) (94)
Harmonization Versus Subsidiarity in Water Governance: A Review of Water Governance and Legislation in the Canadian Provinces and Territories (2008) (89)
Water Security Assessment: Integrating Governance and Freshwater Indicators (2012) (87)
Introduction to the Themed Section : Water Governance and the Politics of Scale (2012) (86)
Constructing ‘Public’ Water: The World Bank, Urban Water Supply, and the Biopolitics of Development (2013) (84)
The Business of Water: Market Environmentalism in the Water Sector (2014) (69)
Water Security : Principles, Perspectives and Practices (2013) (66)
Eau Canada: The Future of Canada's Water (2006) (60)
The Contradictions in ‘Alternative’ Service Delivery: Governance, Business Models, and Sustainability in Municipal Water Supply (2010) (58)
Geographies of degrowth: Nowtopias, resurgences and the decolonization of imaginaries and places (2019) (50)
Navigating the tensions in collaborative watershed governance: Water governance and Indigenous communities in British Columbia, Canada (2016) (50)
Water governance and water users in a privatised water industry: participation in policy-making and in water services provision: a case study of England and Wales (2005) (47)
Drinking Water Quality Guidelines across Canadian Provinces and Territories: Jurisdictional Variation in the Context of Decentralized Water Governance (2014) (47)
PRIVATISING WATER: BoTT AND HYDROPOLITICS IN THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA (2000) (41)
Standing on the shoulders of giants: Understanding changes in urban water practice through the lens of complexity science (2017) (39)
Debating Unconventional Energy: Social, Political, and Economic Implications (2017) (37)
The role of science-policy interface in sustainable urban water transitions: lessons from Rotterdam. (2017) (36)
Deconstructing Discourses of Drought (1999) (32)
Fresh Water-Related Indicators in Canada: An Inventory and Analysis (2011) (31)
Commons versus commodities: political ecologies of water privatization (2010) (28)
Global Trends and Water Policy in Spain (2003) (28)
Not-quite-neoliberal natures in Latin America: An introduction (2015) (23)
Regulating Resource Use (2008) (22)
Governance, business models and restructuring water supply utilities: recent developments in Ontario, Canada (2005) (22)
Neoliberalization of Nature (2015) (21)
Recent Developments in Canadian Water Policy: An Emerging Water Security Paradigm (2011) (21)
Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong Region: Hydropower, Livelihoods and Governance (2010) (20)
Governance and Sustainability at a Municipal Scale: The Challenge of Water Conservation (2011) (19)
Environmental Knowledge Cartographies: Evaluating Competing Discourses in U.S. Hydraulic Fracturing Rule-Making (2019) (18)
Can shareholder advocacy shape energy governance? The case of the US antifracking movement (2018) (18)
Do good fences make good neighbours? Canada–United States transboundary water governance, the Boundary Waters Treaty, and twenty-first-century challenges (2015) (17)
Rendering Technical, Rendering Sacred: The Politics of Hydroelectric Development on British Columbia’s Saaghii Naachii/Peace River (2019) (16)
The “Matter of Nature” in Economic Geography (2012) (16)
Engaging Colonial Entanglements: “Treatment as a State” Policy for Indigenous Water Co-Governance (2019) (15)
Contested Knowledges in Hydroelectric Project Assessment: The Case of Canada’s Site C Project (2019) (14)
Introduction: A Battle of Ideas for Water Security (2013) (14)
Large Dam Development: From Trojan Horse to Pandora’s Box (2017) (14)
Water security: critical analysis of emerging trends and definitions (2016) (14)
Water without borders? : Canada, the United States, and shared waters (2013) (13)
Microbial risk governance: challenges and opportunities in fresh water management in Canada (2015) (12)
Indigenous Peoples and Water Governance in Canada: Regulatory Injustice and Prospects for Reform (2016) (11)
Agenda‐Setting at the Energy‐Water Nexus: Constructing and Maintaining a Policy Monopoly in U.S. Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation (2018) (11)
Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground : Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium TC28. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 15-17 June 2005 (2006) (10)
New forms: Anthropocene Festivals and experimental environmental governance (2019) (8)
Debating the Concept of Water Security (2013) (8)
Indigenous Peoples and Water Governance in Canada (2018) (8)
Water governance and the politics of scale: How thinking critically about scale can help create better water governance (2012) (6)
Scenarios as a tool in water management: Considerations of scale and application (2003) (6)
Groundwater governance: explaining regulatory non-compliance. (2010) (5)
Transcending Borders Through Postcolonial Water Governance? Indigenous Water Governance Across the Canada-US Border (2017) (5)
Book Review: Water, environment and society in times of climatic change (2000) (5)
Economic regulation of the water supply industry in the UK: a game theoretic consideration of the implications for responding to drought risk (2005) (4)
(Post)Colonial Pipes: Urban Water Supply in Colonial and Contemporary Jakarta (2015) (4)
Large Dam Development (2017) (4)
Perspectives on the BC Water Sustainability Act : First Nations Respond to Water Governance Reform in British Columbia (2017) (4)
Local Stakeholders Governing Water Across the 49th Parallel (2007) (3)
Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice (2022) (3)
Smart Oceans: Artificial intelligence and marine protected area governance (2022) (3)
4. Citizens without a City: The Techno-Politics of Urban Water Governance (2017) (3)
Expert Stakeholder Participation in the Thames Region (2003) (3)
Canadian Drinking Water Policy: Jurisdictional Variation in the Context of Decentralized Water Governance (2017) (3)
1. Governance Failure: Reframing the Urban Water Supply Crisis (2017) (2)
Cambodia: Genocide, Autocracy, and the Overpoliticized State (2000) (2)
Disclosing Influence: Hydraulic fracturing, interest groups, and state policy processes in the United States (2020) (2)
The Business of Water (2018) (2)
Eight. Water is Life! The Debate over Private Sector Participation in Water Supply (2006) (2)
Drought Risk in a Changing Environment (2000) (2)
Book Review: The meaning of water (2006) (1)
The Water Convention from a North American Perspective (2015) (1)
Conservation acoustics: Animal sounds, audible natures, cheap nature (2021) (1)
Visualizing water‐energy nexus landscapes (2021) (1)
Material worlds redux (2021) (1)
Book review (2005) (0)
6. Commons versus Commodities: The Ambiguous Merits of Community Water-Supply Management (2017) (0)
The Participation of the Private Sector in Water Management: Recent Trends and Debates in Developing Countries (2009) (0)
TRANSBOUNDARY GROUNDWATER GOVERNANCE (2004) (0)
Reviews: A Companion to Economic Geography, Governmentality and the Mastery of Territory in Nineteenth-Century America, Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City, in Amazonia: A Natural History, Being Political: Genealogies of Citizenship (2003) (0)
Conclusion: Beyond Privatization (2017) (0)
3. Watering the Thirsty Poor: The Water Privatization Debate (2017) (0)
2. Material Emblems of Citizenship: Creating Public Water (2017) (0)
7. Politics and Biopolitics: Debating Ecological Governance (2017) (0)
Engaging Colonial Entanglements: “Treatment as a State” Policy for Indigenous Water Co-Governance (2019) (0)
A Review of “Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism” (2012) (0)
Defining “Privatization”: A Note on Terminology (2017) (0)
Digital Technologies and Dynamic Resource Management (2020) (0)
Post-Privatization Failure and a Move toward Customer Corporations (2003) (0)
5. Protesting Privatization: Transnational Struggles over the Human Right to Water (2017) (0)
The World Water Summit (2003) (0)
Confessions of An Accidental Urbanist (2015) (0)
Introduction: Privatization and the Urban Water Crisis (2017) (0)
Monitoring soft soil tunnelling in the Netherlands: an inventory of design aspects Recherches aux tunnels en sol tendre aux Pays-Bas: Un inventaire des aspect de construction (2006) (0)
Rendering Technical, Rendering Sacred: The Politics of Hydroelectric Development on British Columbia’s Saaghii Naachii/Peace River (2019) (0)
Hegemony does not imply homogeneity (2015) (0)
Book Reviews (2002) (0)
List of Figures and Tables (2017) (0)
The Sounds of Life (2022) (0)
Alphabetical Index: Issues 81–90 (2012) (0)
Nature and culture in french guiana (2002) (0)
Sustainability and direct action (1996) (0)
The River Nile in the Age of the British: Political Ecology and the Quest for Economic Power, IB Taurus, London, Terje Tvedt. (2004), 456 pages, £49.50 hardback (2005) (0)

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