Karen Bakker, University of British Columbia

Research

Read how they describe their research on their University of British Columbia profile.

Latest papers

Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice.
The Journal of peasant studies · 2023
Drinking Water Quality Guidelines across Canadian provinces and territories: jurisdictional variation in the context of decentralized water governance.
International journal of environmental research and public health · 2014
The governance dimensions of water security: a review.
Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2013 · first author

All 4 publications

Latest funding

Mobile Biodiversity Conservation: Dynamic digital management of protected areas
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$48,633
Mobile Biodiversity Conservation: Dynamic digital management of protected areas
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$25,590
Impact Award: Connection
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$50,000

All 17 grants and awards

4 publications.

01

Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice.

Boelens R, Escobar A, Bakker K, Hommes L, Swyngedouw E, Hogenboom B, Huijbens EH, Jackson S, Vos J, Harris LM, Joy KJ, de Castro F, Duarte-Abadía B, Tubino de Souza D, Lotz-Sisitka H, Hernández-Mora N, Martínez-Alier J, Roca-Servat D, Perreault T, Sanchis-Ibor C, Suhardiman D, Ulloa A, Wals A, Hoogesteger J, Hidalgo-Bastidas JP, Roa-Avendaño T, Veldwisch GJ, Woodhouse P, Wantzen KM

The Journal of peasant studies2023

DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2120810 PMID: 39165309

02

Drinking Water Quality Guidelines across Canadian provinces and territories: jurisdictional variation in the context of decentralized water governance.

Dunn G, Bakker K, Harris L

International journal of environmental research and public health2014

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph110504634 PMID: 24776725

03

The governance dimensions of water security: a review.

Bakker K, Morinville C

Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences2013First author

DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0116 PMID: 24080629

04

Water management. Water security: research challenges and opportunities.

Bakker K

Science (New York, N.Y.)2012First author

DOI: 10.1126/science.1226337 PMID: 22923564

Mobile Biodiversity Conservation: Dynamic digital management of protected areas

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Bakker, Karen J.

Keywords: environmental; governance; biodiversity; conservation; dynamic; management; mobile; protected areas; digital technology

$48,633

Mobile Biodiversity Conservation: Dynamic digital management of protected areas

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Bakker, Karen J.

Keywords: environmental; governance; biodiversity; conservation; dynamic; management; mobile; protected areas; digital technology

$25,590

Impact Award: Connection

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Connection Award

Principal investigators: Bakker, Karen J.

Keywords: water governance; water resources and supply management; water regulation; water privatization; transboundary water management; utility privatization; resource economics; water resources and climate change; environmental policy and politics

$50,000

ABORIGINAL - Between law and action: assessing the state of knowledge on Indigenous law and international legal norms with reference to fresh water resources

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Knowledge Synthesis Grants

Principal investigators: Bakker, Karen J.

$24,997

Indigenous law and water governance: approaches, methods and practice

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Bakker, Karen J.

Keywords: Indigenous peoples; water governance; geography; research ethics

$9,800

Sustainable water governance and indigenous law

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Partnership Grants

Keywords: community-based research; water governance; indigenous law; political ecology; resource governance; Northern Canada; Western Canada

$2,492,346

Environmental governance at the water-energy nexus: water governance and hydraulic fracturing in Canada and the United States

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Bakker, Karen J.

Keywords: environment; governance; water; energy; hydraulic fracturing; British Columbia; Alberta; Colorado; New Mexico

$236,474

Indigenous water circles: an interdisciplinary conference and knowledge dissemination project

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Bakker, Karen J.

Keywords: sustainability; environment; governance; Indigenous; law; community-based research

$25,000

Political Ecology

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Bakker, Karen

Keywords: fresh water, environment, governance, environmental security, sustainability, resource management

$500,000

International WaTERS Research and Training Network - Water-related Training, Education and Research in the global South

Co-investigatorSSHRC2013

Principal investigators: Harris, Leila M.

Keywords: water governance; global South; collaborative and interdisciplinary research; training; water security; resilience; equity

$200,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Leila Harris

Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice

1 shared papers, latest 2014

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Bakker, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice." (2023), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Mobile Biodiversity Conservation: Dynamic digital management of protected areas" (2021), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]