Ken Conca is Professor of International Relations at the School of International Service at American University. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Governing Water and Confronting Consumption.Erika Weinthal is Associate Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. She is the author or editor of three books, including State Making and Environmental Cooperation.

• PrefaceList of Contributors Part 1: Introduction 1. The Political Dimensions of WaterKen Conca and Erika Weinthal Part 2: Poverty, Rights, and Ethics 2. Water and Poverty: Pathways of Escape and DescentBen Crow and Brent M. Swallow 3. Knowing Equity When We See It: Water Equity in Contemporary Global ContextsMargaret Wilder and Helen Ingram 4. Gender and WaterBarbara van Koppen 5. Monitoring the Progressive Realization of the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation: Frontier Analysis as a Basis to Enhance Human Rights AccountabilityBenjamin Mason Meier, Ryan Cronk, Jeanne Luh, Jamie Bartram, and Catarina de Albuquerque 6. Indigenous Peoples and Water Justice in a Globalizing WorldSue Jackson 7. Re-Imagined Communities: A New Ethical Approach to Water Policy Veronica Strang Part 3: Food, Energy, and Water 8. The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Arid Regions: The Politics of ProblemshedsMartin Keulertz, Jeannie Sowers, Eckart Woertz, and Rabi Mohtar 9. The Nexus of Energy and Water QualityErika Weinthal, Avner Vengosh, and Kate Neville 10. What is Food-water and Why Do We not Account for It? Martin Keulertz and Tony Allan 11. Unintended Water Allocation: Gaining Share from Indirect Action and InactionVirginia Hooper and Bruce Lankford Part 4: Water and the Politics of Scale 12. Why Scale Matters: Borderless Water and Bordered ThinkingAlice Cohen 13. Local Water PoliticsSara Hughes and Megan Mullin 14. Rethinking Urban Water (In)formalityMalini Ranganathan Part 5: Law, Economics, and Water Management 15. Innovation and Trends in Water LawPhilippe Cullet 16. The Economics of WaterJeffrey M. Peterson and Nathan Hendricks 17. The Political Economy of Water Markets: Property Rights and Path Dependency in Rivers under PressureDustin Garrick and Jesper Svensson 18. The Business of Water Karen Bakker 19. China's Water Pricing PoliciesZhong Ma, Dunhu Chang, and Fang Zhou Part 6: The Politics of Transboundary Waters 20. Managing Transboundary Rivers to Avert Conflict and Facilitate CooperationNeda Zawahri 21. Transboundary Unbound: Redefining Water Conflict and Cooperation for Contemporary Challenges that Extend Beyond Watersheds, Regions, and WaterJacob D. Petersen-Perlman, Julie E. Watson, and Aaron T. Wolf 22. "Something Has to Yield": Climate Change Transforming Transboundary Water Governance (as We Know It)Joakim Öjendal and Gustav Aldén Rudd 23. River Basin Organizations and the Governance of Transboundary Watercourses Andrea K. Gerlak and Susanne Schmeier 24. The Absence of Water Conflicts in the Developing World: Evidence from AfricaClionadh Raleigh Part 7: The Politics of Water Knowledge 25. Adaptive Governance and Integrated Water Resources ManagementMark Lubell and Carolina Balazs 26. Transfer, Diffusion, Adaptation, and Translation of Water Policy ModelsFarhad Mukhtarov and Katherine A. Daniell 27. Climate Information and Water Management: Building Adaptive Capacity or Business as Usual?Maria Carmen Lemos and Christine Kirchhoff Index