Ken Conca
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1130064 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ken Conca |
| NOMBRES | Ken |
| APELLIDO | Conca |
| FIRMA | CONCA K |
| AFILIACIONES | American University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9746-5290 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 169 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 10 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Environmental Peacebuilding
The field of environmental peacebuilding emerged as a counter to the idea that violent conflict was an inevitable byproduct of environmental change. Two decades ago, my colleague Geoffrey Dabelko and I published a book, Environmental Peacemaking, sketching the argument that ecological interdependencies could be instrumentalized as a force for peace (Conca & Dabelko, 2002). Other early works from this period focused on the peace opportunities in b…
Climate Politics and the Power of Religion
Solar geoengineering
Solar geoengineering is gaining prominence in climate change debates as an issue worth studying; for some it is even a potential future policy option. We argue here against this increasing normalization of solar geoengineering as a speculative part of the climate policy portfolio. We contend, in particular, that solar geoengineering at planetary scale is not governable in a globally inclusive and just manner within the current international polit…
The past and future(s) of environmental peacebuilding
Environmental peacebuilding is a rapidly growing field of research and practice at the intersection of environment, conflict, peace and security. Focusing on these linkages is crucial in a time when the environment is a core issue of international politics and the number of armed conflicts remains high. This article introduces a special issue with a particular emphasis on environmental opportunities for building and sustaining peace. We first det…
Addressing knowledge gaps for transboundary environmental governance
Green Planet Blues
Revised and updated throughout, this unique anthology examines global environmental politics from a range of perspectives and captures the voices of both the powerless and the powerful. Paradigms of sustainability, environmental security, and ecological justice illustrate the many ways environmental challenges and their solutions are framed in contemporary international debates about climate, water, forests, toxics, energy, food, and biodiversity…
Prospects for a multi-stakeholder dialogue on climate engineering
Lessons from the literature on multi-stakeholder dialogue (MSD) that are relevant to the debate on climate engineering (CE) are examined. MSDs have been used to prod slow-to-develop intergovernmental regulatory processes on a range of transnational and global controversies. A CEMSD might push forward anticipatory governance of CE by promoting social learning, sharpening and legitimizing governance norms, and starting to arrange the political spac…
Why Scale Matters
Water is a flow resource managed along political boundaries. As such, decisions about water governance are complicated by the plurality of actors and institutions that affect and govern water as it moves through the hydrologic cycle. Drawing on scale theory and on concrete examples from Canada, this chapter makes several interrelated arguments: first, that political boundaries render more complicated the effective governance of water, both by add…
Transboundary Unbound
This chapter calls for a new examination of the water conflict‒cooperation dialogue, beyond the traditional areas of water allocation and utilization. It calls for dialogue to incorporate two critical dimensions: (1) variability linked to climate change and the water-food-energy-environment nexus when framing parameters of water-related conflict; and (2) “unbounding” of analysis beyond political and geographical borders to include internal, regio…
“Something Has to Yield”
As estimations and predictability of water supply in basins around the globe become difficult under a changing global climate, the need for new transboundary water management arises. To avoid international tensions related to water, traditional water agreements between states need to be transformed into more sophisticated and flexible arrangements of water governance. Designing and implementing such arrangements is a huge challenge since they mus…
The Absence of Water Conflicts in the Developing World
The debate concerning how water access, availability, and change will impact conflict is bolstered by growing evidence that some influence exists, however inconsistent. Clear conclusions are obscured by the variety of water issues in developing countries, the difference between direct and indirect effects on conflict, and the additional uncertainty of what future climate changes may do to water availability and rights. This chapter summarizes how…
Monitoring the Progressive Realization of the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation
The human rights to water and sanitation have developed dramatically under international human rights law over the past forty years, with international political declarations leading to specific state obligations. Yet despite this evolution of human rights under international law, there are few mechanisms to monitor the progressive realization of those rights in national practice. The Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WaSH) Performance Index employ…
Climate Change and the UN Security Council
Although claims about climate/conflict links remain contested, concerns that climate change will affect peace and security have gained traction in academic, activist, and policy circles. One set of pressures for responsive action has centered on the UN Security Council, which has held several often-contentious debates on the topic. Whether the Council should address climate change is a highly politicized question, tied to controversies about the …
The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy
This handbook gathers a diverse group of leading scholars of water politics and policy. Authors were tasked to present forward-looking chapters in their areas of expertise, flagging key trends in both research and practice. The volume is organized into six sections: poverty, rights, and ethics; food, energy, and water; water and the politics of scale; law, economics, and water management; the politics of transboundary water; and the politics of w…
River Basin Organizations and the Governance of Transboundary Watercourses
This chapter defines transboundary waters and sheds light on the collective action problems they pose. It chronicles the rise of river basin organizations as the key regional institutions to manage and implement international water treaties and address collective action problems in transboundary waters. In examining questions of effectiveness, two important institutional design features of transboundary water governance are outlined: the role of …
Managing Transboundary Rivers to Avert Conflict and Facilitate Cooperation
Increasing populations, climate change, and industrialization are challenging states’ ability to meet domestic demands for scarce freshwater resources. In fact, world leaders and international organizations are warning of the increasing potential for interstate conflict and tension over transboundary rivers. Relying on qualitative and quantitative analysis, experts have analyzed means by which states can peacefully manage their transboundary basi…
Environmental Priorities in Post-Conflict Recovery
Donors have converged upon an increasingly institutionalised process of promoting post-conflict recovery. The hallmarks of this process are a Post-Conflict Needs Assessment (PCNA), a Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), and a UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF). This paper examines the ability of this multi-stage process to address environmental issues. While research demonstrates that environmental governance and natural resource man…
An Unfinished Foundation
This book examines the origins, effectiveness, and limitations of the United Nations system's approach to global environmental governance. The UN Charter mandates the global organization to seek four noble aspirations: international peace and security, rule of law among nations, human rights for all people, and social progress through development. On environmental issues, however, the UN has understood its charge much more narrowly. It works for …
Complex Landscapes and Oil Curse Research
Missing Links in Global Water Governance
Pahl-Wostl, C., K. Conca, A. Kramer, J. Maestu, and F. Schmidt. 2013. Missing links in global water governance: a processes-oriented analysis. Ecology and Society 18(2): 33. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05554-180233
The Rise of the Region in Global Environmental Politics
This essay examines some of the reasons for the upsurge in interest in regional approaches to global environmental challenges. One reason is a growing sense of obstruction and drift at the global level. With the rate of formation of new global environmental agreements lagging, with many existing agreements seemingly stalled, and with the momentum of global summitry having faded, regions may seem a more pragmatic scale at which to promote the diff…
Entries
Environment and Peacebuilding in War-torn Societies
Environmental challenges create high-stakes choices in war-torn societies. Handled well, they may create a solid foundation for peace and sustainable development; handled poorly, they risk undercutting an already tenuous peace. In this article, we identify patterns and lessons from the work of the UN Environment Programme's Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch, which has conducted postconflict assessments in several war-torn societies ove…
The Harrison Symposia
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When the Rivers Run Dry
Global Regime Formation or Complex Institution Building? The Principled Content of International River Agreements
This paper analyzes the principled content of 62 international river agreements for the period 1980–2000. We ask two questions: whether governments are converging on common principles for governing shared river basins and whether the effort to create a global normative framework for shared rivers has shaped the principled content of basin-level international accords. The data reveal a complex process of normative development. A few core principle…
Solar geoengineering
Solar geoengineering is gaining prominence in climate change debates as an issue worth studying; for some it is even a potential future policy option. We argue here against this increasing normalization of solar geoengineering as a speculative part of the climate policy portfolio. We contend, in particular, that solar geoengineering at planetary scale is not governable in a globally inclusive and just manner within the current international polit…
The past and future(s) of environmental peacebuilding
Environmental peacebuilding is a rapidly growing field of research and practice at the intersection of environment, conflict, peace and security. Focusing on these linkages is crucial in a time when the environment is a core issue of international politics and the number of armed conflicts remains high. This article introduces a special issue with a particular emphasis on environmental opportunities for building and sustaining peace. We first det…
The WTO and the undermining of global environmental governance
Environmentalists have not always been of the same mind regarding the World Trade Organization (WTO) or the aggressive liberalization of trade. While many have warned about accelerating distorted and unsustainable growth pattems, others have seen opportunities to improve the efficiency of global resource use or to ratchet up national environmental standards where they are weak. But in the wake of the battle in Seattle and five years of experience…
Confronting Consumption
In affluent societies, evidence suggests that public concern and activism about “the consumption problem” is growing in many corners of everyday life—even in the paragon of the consumer society, the United States. These emerging concerns have an environmental dimension, but also embrace issues of community, work, meaning, freedom, and the overall quality of life. Yet the efforts of individuals, groups, and communities to confront consumption find…
Rethinking the Ecology-Sovereignty Debate
Addressing knowledge gaps for transboundary environmental governance
Consumption and Environment in a Global Economy
Economic globalization demands two important adjustments in how we understand and undertake efforts to protect the global environment. One critical but overlooked effect of globalization is its impact on the “sustaining middle”—the large but fragile stratum of the Earth's population that lives, works, and consumes in ways most closely approximating genuine sustainability. Although we tend to view the world in dichotomous North/South terms, perhap…
The Rise of the Region in Global Environmental Politics
This essay examines some of the reasons for the upsurge in interest in regional approaches to global environmental challenges. One reason is a growing sense of obstruction and drift at the global level. With the rate of formation of new global environmental agreements lagging, with many existing agreements seemingly stalled, and with the momentum of global summitry having faded, regions may seem a more pragmatic scale at which to promote the diff…
Climate Change and the UN Security Council
Although claims about climate/conflict links remain contested, concerns that climate change will affect peace and security have gained traction in academic, activist, and policy circles. One set of pressures for responsive action has centered on the UN Security Council, which has held several often-contentious debates on the topic. Whether the Council should address climate change is a highly politicized question, tied to controversies about the …
Environment and Peacebuilding in War-torn Societies
Environmental challenges create high-stakes choices in war-torn societies. Handled well, they may create a solid foundation for peace and sustainable development; handled poorly, they risk undercutting an already tenuous peace. In this article, we identify patterns and lessons from the work of the UN Environment Programme's Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch, which has conducted postconflict assessments in several war-torn societies ove…
When the Rivers Run Dry
Ecology in an Age of Empire
If we are to think imperially about global environmental politics we must be clear about what we mean by empire, as use of the term often conflates two distinct trends. If “empire” means the resurgence of muscular American unilateralism, then the principal ramification is the need to understand international environmental cooperation not simply “after hegemony” but in the face of it, with American domestic politics a central consideration. If the…
Greening the United Nations
(1995). Greening the United Nations: Environmental organisations and the UN system. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 441-458
Technology, the Military, and Democracy in Brazil
Brazil Entered the 1990s with its transition from authoritarian rule incomplete. The gradual withdrawal of the armed forces from power brought an end to over two decades of direct military rule in 1985, paving the way for a new constitution and the first presidential election in nearly 30 years. These formal democratizing changes were erected, however, on a foundation of socio-economic structures and political institutions with some decidedly non…
Green Planet Blues
Prospects for a multi-stakeholder dialogue on climate engineering
Lessons from the literature on multi-stakeholder dialogue (MSD) that are relevant to the debate on climate engineering (CE) are examined. MSDs have been used to prod slow-to-develop intergovernmental regulatory processes on a range of transnational and global controversies. A CEMSD might push forward anticipatory governance of CE by promoting social learning, sharpening and legitimizing governance norms, and starting to arrange the political spac…
Missing Links in Global Water Governance
Pahl-Wostl, C., K. Conca, A. Kramer, J. Maestu, and F. Schmidt. 2013. Missing links in global water governance: a processes-oriented analysis. Ecology and Society 18(2): 33. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05554-180233
The World Commission on Dams and trends in global environmental governance
The World Commission on Dams marks a moment of real progress in the large-dams controversy. It does so in at least two ways: as a statement of the norms that should govern dam-related decision-making and as a process of dialogue between dam proponents and critics. Whether this progress translates into consistently better dam-related decisionmaking is a question that remains to be answered. Also unanswered is the larger question of whether the WCD…
Environmental Priorities in Post-Conflict Recovery
Donors have converged upon an increasingly institutionalised process of promoting post-conflict recovery. The hallmarks of this process are a Post-Conflict Needs Assessment (PCNA), a Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), and a UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF). This paper examines the ability of this multi-stage process to address environmental issues. While research demonstrates that environmental governance and natural resource man…
The Puzzle of Brazilian Arms Production
Patrice M. Franko, The Puzzle of Brazilian Arms Production, Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Vol. 40, No. 4, Special Issue: Brazil: The Challenge of Constitutional Reform (Winter, 1998), pp. 137-143
Peace, justice, and sustainability
Efforts to promote ecological sustainability face a formidable challenge of institutional design, especially when pursued transnation‐ally. Can attempts to render key international practices sustainable be made consistent with promoting a more peaceful and just world? The answer may lie in how we respond to the classical dilemma of designing institutions that simultaneously concentrate and limit political power. Many of our most deeply entrenched…
Technology, the Military, and Democracy in Brazil
Brazil Entered the 1990s with its transition from authoritarian rule incomplete. The gradual withdrawal of the armed forces from power brought an end to over two decades of direct military rule in 1985, paving the way for a new constitution and the first presidential election in nearly 30 years. These formal democratizing changes were erected, however, on a foundation of socio-economic structures and political institutions with some decidedly non…
Peace, justice, and sustainability
Efforts to promote ecological sustainability face a formidable challenge of institutional design, especially when pursued transnation‐ally. Can attempts to render key international practices sustainable be made consistent with promoting a more peaceful and just world? The answer may lie in how we respond to the classical dilemma of designing institutions that simultaneously concentrate and limit political power. Many of our most deeply entrenched…
Rethinking the Ecology-Sovereignty Debate
In the Name of Sustainability
Environmental problem have emerged as a major analytic theme in peace studies. Peace scholars are increasingly inclined to apply and extend concepts such as sustainable development, global change, and ecological security. Not all paths to ecological sustainability are equally peaceful or just, however; environmental discourse often masks widely varying assumptions about order, hierarchy, justice, conflict, and other fundamental concerns. As peace…
Greening the United Nations
(1995). Greening the United Nations: Environmental organisations and the UN system. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 441-458
Green Planet Blues
Between global markets and domestic politics
Concerns about Third World military industrialization, which animate a broad range of international security debates, often take for granted the South's capacity for sustained military-industrial development. A convergence of favourable conditions spurred rapid defence-sector growth in much of the South beginning in the late 1970s. But the increasingly competitive character of the global arms economy and the turbulent political situations of most…
The Puzzle of Brazilian Arms Production
Patrice M. Franko, The Puzzle of Brazilian Arms Production, Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Vol. 40, No. 4, Special Issue: Brazil: The Challenge of Constitutional Reform (Winter, 1998), pp. 137-143
The WTO and the undermining of global environmental governance
Environmentalists have not always been of the same mind regarding the World Trade Organization (WTO) or the aggressive liberalization of trade. While many have warned about accelerating distorted and unsustainable growth pattems, others have seen opportunities to improve the efficiency of global resource use or to ratchet up national environmental standards where they are weak. But in the wake of the battle in Seattle and five years of experience…
Confronting Consumption
In affluent societies, evidence suggests that public concern and activism about “the consumption problem” is growing in many corners of everyday life—even in the paragon of the consumer society, the United States. These emerging concerns have an environmental dimension, but also embrace issues of community, work, meaning, freedom, and the overall quality of life. Yet the efforts of individuals, groups, and communities to confront consumption find…
Consumption and Environment in a Global Economy
Economic globalization demands two important adjustments in how we understand and undertake efforts to protect the global environment. One critical but overlooked effect of globalization is its impact on the “sustaining middle”—the large but fragile stratum of the Earth's population that lives, works, and consumes in ways most closely approximating genuine sustainability. Although we tend to view the world in dichotomous North/South terms, perhap…
Confronting Consumption
Environmental Peacemaking
The World Commission on Dams and trends in global environmental governance
The World Commission on Dams marks a moment of real progress in the large-dams controversy. It does so in at least two ways: as a statement of the norms that should govern dam-related decision-making and as a process of dialogue between dam proponents and critics. Whether this progress translates into consistently better dam-related decisionmaking is a question that remains to be answered. Also unanswered is the larger question of whether the WCD…
Ecology in an Age of Empire
If we are to think imperially about global environmental politics we must be clear about what we mean by empire, as use of the term often conflates two distinct trends. If “empire” means the resurgence of muscular American unilateralism, then the principal ramification is the need to understand international environmental cooperation not simply “after hegemony” but in the face of it, with American domestic politics a central consideration. If the…
The Harrison Symposia
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Harrison Symposia
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
When the Rivers Run Dry
Global Regime Formation or Complex Institution Building? The Principled Content of International River Agreements
This paper analyzes the principled content of 62 international river agreements for the period 1980–2000. We ask two questions: whether governments are converging on common principles for governing shared river basins and whether the effort to create a global normative framework for shared rivers has shaped the principled content of basin-level international accords. The data reveal a complex process of normative development. A few core principle…
Entries
Environment and Peacebuilding in War-torn Societies
Environmental challenges create high-stakes choices in war-torn societies. Handled well, they may create a solid foundation for peace and sustainable development; handled poorly, they risk undercutting an already tenuous peace. In this article, we identify patterns and lessons from the work of the UN Environment Programme's Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch, which has conducted postconflict assessments in several war-torn societies ove…
The Rise of the Region in Global Environmental Politics
This essay examines some of the reasons for the upsurge in interest in regional approaches to global environmental challenges. One reason is a growing sense of obstruction and drift at the global level. With the rate of formation of new global environmental agreements lagging, with many existing agreements seemingly stalled, and with the momentum of global summitry having faded, regions may seem a more pragmatic scale at which to promote the diff…
Complex Landscapes and Oil Curse Research
Missing Links in Global Water Governance
Pahl-Wostl, C., K. Conca, A. Kramer, J. Maestu, and F. Schmidt. 2013. Missing links in global water governance: a processes-oriented analysis. Ecology and Society 18(2): 33. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05554-180233
An Unfinished Foundation
This book examines the origins, effectiveness, and limitations of the United Nations system's approach to global environmental governance. The UN Charter mandates the global organization to seek four noble aspirations: international peace and security, rule of law among nations, human rights for all people, and social progress through development. On environmental issues, however, the UN has understood its charge much more narrowly. It works for …
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