The Politics of Water Science: On Unresolved Water Problems and Biased Research Agendas
Joyeeta Gupta and
Pieter van der Zaag Additional contact information Joyeeta Gupta: Joyeeta Gupta is Professor of Climate Change Law and Policy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and of Water Law and Policy at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft. She is editor-in-chief of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics and is on the editorial board of Carbon and Climate Law Review, International Journal on Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Policy, and International Community Law Review. She was lead author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that recently shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. She is on the scientific steering committees of, amongst others, the Global Water Systems Project and the Earth System Governance project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change.
Pieter van der Zaag: Pieter van der Zaag teaches integrated water resources management at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, The Netherlands, and holds a Professorship at Delft University of Technology. He has been involved in a number of multidisciplinary research and capacity building projects in Ethiopia, Ghana, Mexico, Mozambique, Peru, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa and Zimbabwe. He sits on the Academic Board of the Water Research Fund for Southern Africa WARFSA, and on the Editorial Board of the international journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. He is member of the IAHS committee on Integrated Water Resources Management and a scientific advisor of the International Foundation for Science.
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