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Water ethics on a human-dominated planet: rationality, context and values in global governance (2014)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J., & Peppard, C. Z. (2014). Water ethics on a human-dominated planet: rationality, context and values in global governance. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 1(6), 533-547. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1043

A discourse on water ethics has emerged as a field linking practical water demands, social practices, and hydrological constraints to philosophic norms. The field arose parallel to growing, global understandings of the interconnected nature of water... Read More about Water ethics on a human-dominated planet: rationality, context and values in global governance.

False Promises: The contours, contexts, and contestation of good water governance in Lao PDR and Alberta, Canada (2014)
Journal Article
Matthews, N., & Schmidt, J. J. (2014). False Promises: The contours, contexts, and contestation of good water governance in Lao PDR and Alberta, Canada. Water governance, 2(2), 21-40. https://doi.org/10.7564/14-ijwg61

‘Good water governance’ in Lao PDR and Alberta, Canada emerged in different political contexts of, respectively, communism and democracy. Yet both espouse similar principles of participation, transparency and accountability. Drawing on multiple metho... Read More about False Promises: The contours, contexts, and contestation of good water governance in Lao PDR and Alberta, Canada.

Water Management and the Procedural Turn: Norms and Transitions in Alberta (2014)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2014). Water Management and the Procedural Turn: Norms and Transitions in Alberta. Water Resources Management, 28(4), 1127-1141. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-014-0544-z

Water management reforms promoting deliberative, decentralized decision making are often accompanied by procedures designed to accommodate a range of stakeholder perspectives. This paper considers the role of political and ethical norms affecting thi... Read More about Water Management and the Procedural Turn: Norms and Transitions in Alberta.

Historicising the hydrosocial cycle (2014)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2014). Historicising the hydrosocial cycle. Water alternatives, 7(1), 220-234

This paper examines the historical claims made in support of the hydrosocial cycle. In particular, it considers how arguments advancing the hydrosocial cycle make historical claims regarding modernist conceptions of what water is (i.e. H2O) and its f... Read More about Historicising the hydrosocial cycle.