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Annals of American Geography 103(2), 1 March 2013 - Special Issue: Geographies of Water

Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 103, No. 2, 01 Mar 2013 is now available on Taylor & Francis Online. It is a special issue on water.

If you click on the title of each article you will be able to read the abstract. Unless you are a member of AAG or your organizqtion has a subscription to its journal, you will have to pay to download the full article.

Special Issue: Geographies of Water

This new issue contains the following articles:

Introduction 
Geographies of Water
Mark A. Fonstad
Pages: 251-252
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.757159

Water Supply and Management 
Neoliberal Versus Postneoliberal Water: Geographies of Privatization and Resistance
Karen Bakker
Pages: 253-260
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.756246

Into the Sea: Desalination as Hydro-Social Fix in Spain
Erik Swyngedouw
Pages: 261-270
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.754688

Can Participation Change the Geography of Water? Lessons from South Africa
Julia Brown
Pages: 271-279
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.754685

Water Security and Adaptive Management in the Arid Americas
Christopher A. Scott, Francisco J. Meza, Robert G. Varady, Holm Tiessen, Jamie McEvoy, Gregg M. Garfin, Margaret Wilder, Luis M. Farfán, Nicolás Pineda Pablos & Elma Montaña
Pages: 280-289
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.754660

River Federalism
Martin W. Doyle, Rebecca Lave, Morgan M. Robertson & Julia Ferguson
Pages: 290-298
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.754686

The Geographies of Water Quality 
Influence of Latrine Proximity and Type on Tubewell Water Quality and Diarrheal Disease in Bangladesh
Veronica Escamilla, Peter S. K. Knappett, Mohammad Yunus, P. K. Streatfield & Michael Emch
Pages: 299-308
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.756257

Optical Water Quality of Inland Waters: A Landscape Perspective
Jason P. Julian, Robert J. Davies-Colley, Charles L. Gallegos & Trung V. Tran
Pages: 309-318
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.754658

The Link Between Polycentrism and Adaptive Capacity in River Basin Governance Systems: Insights from the River Rhine and the Zhujiang (Pearl River) Basin
André R. da Silveira & Keith S. Richards
Pages: 319-329
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.754687

Hazards, Risks, and Human-Waterscape Interactions 
Explaining Rapid Transitions in the Practice of Flood Risk Management
Stuart N. Lane, Valerie November, Catharina Landström & Sarah Whatmore
Pages: 330-342
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.754689

The Participatory Vulnerability Scoping Diagram: Deliberative Risk Ranking for Community Water Systems
Peter D. Howe, Brent Yarnal, Alex Coletti & Nathan J. Wood
Pages: 343-352
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.754673

Water Resources Science, Policy, and Politics for the Florida Everglades
William L. Graf
Pages: 353-362
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.754684

New Geographies of Water and Climate Change in Peru: Coupled Natural and Social Transformations in the Santa River Watershed
Jeffrey Bury, Bryan G. Mark, Mark Carey, Kenneth R. Young, Jeffrey M. McKenzie, Michel Baraer, Adam French & Molly H. Polk
Pages: 363-374
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.754665

Effects of Land-Use Change on Water in Andean Páramo Grassland Soils
Carol P. Harden, James Hartsig, Kathleen A. Farley, Jaehoon Lee & Leah L. Bremer
Pages: 375-384
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.754655

Agricultural Virtual Water Trade and Water Footprint of U.S. States
Stanley T. Mubako & Christopher L. Lant
Pages: 385-396
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.756267

Farming for Water Quality: Balancing Food Security and Nitrate Pollution in UK River Basins
Nicholas J. K. Howden, Tim P. Burt, Fred Worrall, Simon A. Mathias & Michael J. Whelan
Pages: 397-407
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.754672

Book Review Essay 
Water Resources: Streams of Inquiry
James L. Wescoat Jr.
Pages: 408-415
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.755370 

Thanks to colleague Dawn Wright for sending this my way.

Enjoy!

"Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it." - Terry Pratchett

Mekong River Sunset - Lao PDR

Aaron Wolf's PhD student Jennifer Veilleux just emailed this picture of her first sunset on the Mekong River. The left bank (south) is Thailand and the right bank is the Lao PDR (aka Laos).

Good news from the field: the Lao government has given her permission to conduct field research and offered to send her out with an escort. She is interviewing all week in the capital and feels that she can put together a robust case study here.

Previously she was in Ethiopia and is now writing a paper on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. 

Read about her adventures at her blog, The Way to Water.

"A single rotten fish makes a basketful turn bad." - Lao proverb

Portlandia, Here We Come! Stumptown Hosts 2013 AWRA Annual Conference 4-7 November; Call for Abstracts!

Shill alert!

Brenda Bateman and I will be co-chairing the AWRA Annual Water Resources Conference in Portland, OR, 4-7 November. 

The Call for Abstracts is out; due date is 10 May 2013.

Topics? Anything related to water, but since some people like lists, view this.

Here is the intro blurb:

"In the West, when you touch water, you touch everything." 
- Wayne N. Aspinall

What the late Rep. Aspinall said years ago applies not only to the West, but also to the entire world. Rest assured that we will cover all four compass directions in Portland, Oregon, at AWRA's 48th Annual Water Resources Conference. The Rose City is one of the best conference venues in the USA, with an appropriate hydrologic address: it is located on the Willamette River (19th largest in the USA by mean annual discharge) just south of its confluence with the mighty Columbia River (4th largest). Indeed, the conference hotel, the Red Lion Hotel on the River, sits on the banks of the Columbia just off Interstate 5.

It has been a long time since AWRA convened its annual conference in the Rose City and much has changed. The scenic beauty embodied by the Columbia River and Gorge with the iconic Mt. Hood looming to the east is still there but now metropolitan Portland is well-known for wines, microbreweries, micro-distilleries, restaurants, food carts, coffee culture, 'green' lifestyle, Voodoo Doughnuts, Silicon Forest, and the quirky character that has enhanced the popular television shows Leverage, Grimm, and of course, the inimitable Portlandia.

We will commence the conference with one of Oregon's own, as keynoter Steven L. Stockton, Director of Civil Works, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A civil engineering graduate of Oregon State University, Steve brings a combination of wisdom, insight, congeniality, and wit rarely seen inside (or outside) the Beltway.

Although the Pacific Northwest is globally known for verdant forests, water, coast, salmon, and volcanoes, few people realize that much of the land area of Washington and Oregon is in the rain shadow of the Cascades and residents must cope with water issues characteristic of drier places like Idaho and Nevada. So when you come calling next November, remember that although it might be raining, you'll likely hear presentations that will be on the 'dry' side.

Special sessions are planned for a number of timely issues, among them: integrated water resources management (IWRM); aquatic invasive species; ecosystem services and floodplain management; the Columbia River Treaty; shale gas development; low impact development for stormwater management; watershed scale hydrologic response to climate change; sediment, geomorphology, and society; water scarcity and security; hydrologic ecosystem services across the landscape; water quality modeling in reservoirs; resilience thinking; and more.

In addition, we will feature a first for an AWRA Annual Conference: a one-day symposium embedded within the meeting. It is titled, 2013 Symposium on Collaborative Modeling for Decision Support - Advancing Water Planning for 30 Years. This innovative session will feature a veritable 'Who's Who' of experts and will enhance your conference experience.

We expect about 400-500 multidisciplinary water resources professionals to descend upon our fair city to partake in discussions of science, engineering, Pinot noirs, policy, management, fish, economics, ales vs. lagers, ASR, and other great liquid issues of the day. You will be energized by the location, topics, discourse, and the ability to access and network with an exceptional group of water resources professionals.

"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water." 
- Loren Eiseley

Here's our extraordinary Organizing Committee. Hotel? Go that, too.

Special Sessions?  Download PDX_AWRA_Special_Sessions

Sponsorship information? No problem!  Download PDX_2013_Sponsor_Brochure_Final

Topics? Anything related to water, but since some people like lists, view this.

See you in Portlandia!

'Alis volat propriis.' - Oregon State Motto (translation: 'She Flies With Her Own Wings.')

Film: 'Role of Sanitation in Girl Child Education' and WatSan Reports

A film from Heeals, an Indian NGO.

Here are reports on Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation: Campaign Report 2012 and Survey Report 2012. 

 

“Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.” ― Tahir Shah, Sorcerer's Apprentice

Rainbow Man Todd Jarvis: The Colours of Water Video

Great video from Todd Jarvis over at his Rainbow Water Coalition blog.

If you want to know about the colours of water, Todd's da man!

The 'graywater - greywater - gray water - grey water' kerfuffle makes 'groundwater vs. ground water' issue look like child's play. Will need some serious conflict management!

 

"My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews." ~Starship Enterprise Captain William Shatner