Issue 23 | December 2018

A Special Feature on Water in Europe and the World.

• Introduction by Peter Debaere and Nicole Shea

Research

• “Seeking a Blue Urbanism: The Paradoxes of Blue Nature” by Timothy Beatley

• “Facing Floods in the Middle Ages” by Ellen Arnold

• “The Governance of Transboundary Rivers Across the World” by Neda Zawahri

• “Water Stress and Pollution in Belgium: The Internationalization and Regionalization of a Policy Problem” by Monica Garcia Quesada and David Aubin

• “Climate Change, Water, and the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic” by Dagomar Degroot

• “Desalination: Water for an Increasingly Thirsty World” by Geoffrey M. Geise

• “A Legal Foundation: Critical to a Realized SDG 6 and Universal Access to Water and Sanitation” by Alexandra Campbell-Ferrari and Luke Wilson

• “Management of European Water Bodies: Approaching a Good Status?” by Ralf B. Schäfer, Mira Kattwinkel, and Elisabeth Berger

• “Sustainable Crop Production and Consumption: The Role of Water Use for Irrigation” by Stefan Siebert

• “Water Quality Law in the United States and European Union: A Comparison of the Clean Water Act and Water Framework Directive” by Robin Kundis Craig

• “Are Water Markets Liquid? Evidence from Southeastern Spain” by Javier D. Donna and José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez

Commentary

• “Reflections on the Soviet Politics of Water in the 1930s” by Cynthiana Ruder

• “How WWF Harnesses Water as Both a Source of Risk and Reward to Mobilize Action” by Alexis Morgan

• “Where Will We Find Tomorrow’s Water” by Fernando Mercé

Interviews

• “The Future of Water Research: An Interview with Paolo D’Odorico” by Peter Debaere

• “Water Advocacy, Philanthropy and Professional Football: An Interview with Chris Long” by Hélène Ducros

Visual Art

• “Beauty and Waste,” an art series curated by Nicole Shea and Kayla Maiuri

Fiction

• Excerpt from Marble by Amalie Smith, translated from the Danish by Jennifer Russell

• “The Birds” by Vladimir Poleganov, translated from the Bulgarian by Peter Bachev

Poetry

• Excerpt from The Wedding Party by Jonida Prifti, translated from the Italian by Diana Thow

Reviews

• Tight Knit Global Families and the Social Life of Fast Fashion, reviewed by Elandre Dedrick

• The Irish Scholarly Presence at St. Gall: Networks of Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages, reviewed by Salvatore Cipriano

• Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700, reviewed by Christopher Gillett

Campus: Water Centers & Institutes: Bridges in Academia Towards Practice

• “The Pacific Institute: A Global Think Tank” by Rebecca Olson

• “Learning from Challenges in the Arid West: Stanford’s Water in the West” by Leon F. Szeptycki and Newsha Ajami

• “Water Footprint Network: Toward Sustainable, Fair and Efficient Fresh Water Use” by Joep Schyns

• “IHE Delft Institute for Water Education: Integrating International Graduate Education as a Legacy of the North Sea Flood of 1953” by Emma Meurs

• “The Columbia Water Center” by Margo Weiss

• “Beyond Capetown’s ‘Day Zero:’ Stellenbosch University Water Institute” by Charon Willem

• “Water-related Activities at the University of Copenhagen, SCIENCE” by Mette Frimodt-Møller

• “University of Virginia Global Water Initiative: Learning from Water Challenges & Solutions Around the Globe” by Peter Debaere, Teresa Culver, and Mike Pace

• “The Oxford Water Network: Securing Water for Sustainable Development” by Dustin Garrick

Campus Spotlight: The Global Water Initiative at the University of Virginia

• Syllabus: Storm Water Management by Teresa Culver (Engineering at UVA)

• Syllabus: Fluid Mechanics by Teresa Culver (Engineering at UVA)

• Syllabus: Sustainable Water and Food Security by Paolo D’Odorico (Hydrology at Berkeley)

• Syllabus: Forest Hydrology by Paolo D’Odorico (Hydrology at Berkeley)

• Syllabus: Global Economics of Water by Peter Debaere (Business/Economic at UVAs)

• Syllabus: Sustainability Policy Design and Evaluations by Molly Lipscomb (Public Policy at UVA)

• Syllabus: Water Seminar I by Christian McMillen (History at UVA)

• Syllabus: Water Seminar II by Christian McMillen (History at UVA)

• Syllabus: Limnology: Inland Water Ecosystems by Mike Pace (Environmental Science at UVA)

• Syllabus: Physical Hydrology by Matt Reidenbach (Environmental Science at UVA)

• Syllabus: The Dynamics of Oceans by Matt Reidenbach (Environmental Science at UVA)

• Syllabus: Water Sustainability by Brian Richter (Environmental Science/Architecture at UVA)

• Syllabus: Water for the World by Jim Smith (Engineering at UVA)

Editor’s Pick

• Twists of Fate by Paco Roca

• Frères Ennemis: The French in American Literature, Americans in French Literature by William Cloonan

• Direct Democracy in the EU: The Myth of a Citizens’ Union Edited by Steven Blockmans and Sophia Russack