The Field of Water Policy

Franck Poupeau is Director of Research at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and he has been the co-director of the joint international unit for Interdisciplinary and Global Environmental Studies (UMI iGLOBES, CNRS/University of Arizona) from 2012 to 2017. He is the co-editor of several books on water policy: Water Bankruptcy in the Land of Plenty (2016), Water Regimes: Beyond the Public and Private Sector Debate (2016), Water Conflicts and Hydrocracy in the Americas: Coalitions, Networks, Policies (2018). Brian F. O’Neill is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, and at the Center for Research and Documentation on the Americas (CREDA, CNRS/Université Paris III La Sorbonne Nouvelle). Joan Cortinas Muñoz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations, Sciences Po Paris, France. Previously, he worked at the UMI iGLOBES, CNRS/University of Arizona. Murielle Coeurdray is a postdoctoral researcher at the UMI iGLOBES, CNRS/University of Arizona. Eliza Benites-Gambirazio is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Arizona, USA, and at the Center for Research and Documentation on the Americas (CREDA, CNRS/Université Paris III La Sorbonne Nouvelle).

Introduction – A Sociological Perspective on Water Policy 1. Engineering Arid Spaces: The Emergence of Western Hydrocracies 2. Supporting the Economic Order: Urban Sprawl and Coalitions for Growth 3. Reinventing Water Conservation: Institutions for Sustainability 4. Sharing Flows: New Professionals with Old Methods 5. Implementing Water Policy: Instruments and their Social Uses in the Colorado River Basin Conclusion – Dealing with Scarcity Annex #1 – Revisiting the Laws of the River Annex #2 – Statistical Analysis