Publications: Elevating Water Rights to Human Rights

Forthcoming

• J. Dugard. (forthcoming March 2023). Water segregation, water disconnection and human rights litigation: An examination of the use of law to challenge structural racism in Detroit and Johannesburg. In “A Research Agenda for Human Rights and the Environment”, edited by Dina Lupin. Edward Elgar Publishing.

2022

• J. Dugard. (2022). Water rights struggles in Johannesburg and Detroit revisited – Looking beyond courts at the politics and power of rights-based legal mobilization in a neoliberal global order: A ‘powerpack’ analysis’. Journal of Human Rights Practice. doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huac011.
• E. Villarreal F. and N. Sibaja. (2022). Blog Limitaciones y alcances de la judicialización del derecho humano al agua. En Blog Programa Estado de la Nación www.estadonacion.or.cr/blog
• E. Villarreal F. and B. M. Wilson (2022). El agua como derecho humano: reconocimientos y disputas en Costa Rica.  San José, C.R.: PEN-CONARE. p. 223.
• B. M. Wilson & E. Villarreal (2022). Introducción. In E. Villarreal and B. M. Wilson (Eds). El agua como derecho humano: Reconocimientos y disputas en Costa Rica. PEN- CONARE, San José, Costa Rica. P. 29-45.
• News: Lanzamiento del libro “El agua como derecho humano: reconocimientos y disputas.
• E. Villarreal F. (2022). El desigual acceso al agua: El acceso mínimo al agua no es suficiente para decir que se goza de un derecho humano. La Nacion. 
• R. Schiel, B. M. Wilson, M. Langford, and C. Faulkner. 2022. Democracy and Public Goods Revisited: Local Institutions, Development, and Access to Water. British Journal of Politics and International Relation. (IF 2.422, Scopus 4.600).

2021

• G. Tezcur, R. Schiel, and B. M. Wilson. 2021. The Effectiveness of Harnessing Human Rights: The Struggle over the Ilısu Dam in Turkey.” Development and Change. Vol. 52(6): 1343-1369. doi/10.1111/dech.12690. (IF 2.920)
• B. M. Wilson, O. Rodriguez, and S. Morales. 2021. Costa Rica. 2020 Global Review of Constitutional Law. In R. Albert, D. Landau, P. Faraguna, and S. Drugda. ICON and the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy. ISBN: 978-0-692-15916-3. Pp. 65-69.
• B. M. Wilson, A. Singh, D. Brinks. 2021. Special issue editors. Water and Sanitation as Human Rights: Have they strengthened Marginalized Peoples’ Claim for Access? 2073-4441.
• Hardcopy print book version, Water and Sanitation as Human Rights: Have they strengthened Marginalized Peoples’ Claim for Access?  ISBN 978-3-0365-5397-9 (Hbk); ISBN 978-3-0365-5398-6 (PDF) https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-0365-5398-6
  • B. M. Wilson, D. Brinks, A. Singh. Preface to ”Water and Sanitation as Human Rights: Have They Strengthened Marginalized Peoples’ Claim for Access?”.
  • N. Wahi. The Evolution of the Right to Water in India. Water 2022, 14(3), 398.
  • A. Singh. 2022. The Right to Water, Law and Municipal Practice: Case Studies from India. Water 2022, 14(1), 73.
  • M. Loen, S. Gloppen. 2021. Constitutionalising the Right to Water in Kenya and Slovenia: Domestic Drivers, Opportunity Structures, and Transnational Norm Entrepreneurs. Water 2021, 13(24), 3548.
  • S. Kozikis and I. T. Winkler. 2021. Between Confrontation and Cooperation: Right to Water Advocacy in the Courts, on the Streets, and at the Capitols in the United States Water 2021, 13(24), 3541.
  • L. Côrtes, C. Gianella, A. M. Páez and C. V. Piedrahíta. 2021. Comparing Experiences of Constitutional Reforms to Enshrine the Right to Water in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru: Opportunities and Limitations. Water 2021, 13(24), 3519.
  • C. Faulkner, J. Lambert, B. M. Wilson, M. Faulkner. 2021. The Human Right to Water and Sanitation: Using Natural Language Processing to Uncover Patterns in Academic Publishing. Water 2021, 13(24), 3501. doi.org/10.3390/w13243501. (IF 3.103, Scopus 3.7).
  • L. Côrtes and A. Côrtes. 2021. Right to Water and Courts in Brazil: How Do Brazilian Courts Rule When They Frame Water as a Right? Water 2021, 13(23), 3362.
  • J. Dugard. 2021. Water Rights in a Time of Fragility: An Exploration of Contestation and Discourse around Cape Town’s “Day Zero” Water Crisis. Water 2021, 13(22), 3247.
• B. M. Wilson, M. Langford, R. Shiel. 2021. Special issue editors. The Politics of the Human Right to Water. 2073-4441.
  • R. Schiel, B. M. Wilson, M. Langford. 2021. The Determinants of Access to Sanitation: The Role of Human Rights and the Challenges of Measurement. Water 2021, 13(12), 1676. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13121676 (IF 3.103, Scopus 3.7).
  • L. Viaene. 2021. Indigenous Water Ontologies, Hydro-Development and the Human/More-Than-Human Right to Water: A Call for Critical Engagement with Plurilegal Water Realities. Water 2021, 13(12), 1660. 10.3390/ w13121660.
  • A. M. Paez Murcia, C. Vallejo. 2021. Channeling Water Conflicts through the Legislative Branch in Colombia. Water 2021, 13(9), 1214. 10.3390/ w13091214.
  • A. Jegede, P. Shikwambane. 2021. Water ?Apartheid? and the Significance of Human Rights Principles of Affirmative Action in South Africa, Water 2021. 10.3390/ w13081104.
  • S. Wingfield, A. Martínez-Moscoso, D. Quiroga, V. Ochoa-Herrera. 2021. Challenges to Water Management in Ecuador: Legal Authorization, Quality Parameters, and Socio-Political Responses. Water 2021. 10.3390/ w13081017.
  • M. Prieto. 2021. Equity vs. Efficiency and the Human Right to Water. Water 2021. 10.3390/ w13030278.
  • D. M. Victral, L. Heller. 2021. The Human Rights to Water and Sanitation in Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of Brazilian States. Water 2021. 10.3390/ w13020228

2020

• M. Loen. 2020. Master Thesis. Constitutionalising Rights to Water and Sanitation: International Norm Diffusion or Local Politics? University of Bergen.
• R. Schiel, B. M. Wilson, M. Langford. 2020. The Human Right to Water in a Pandemic. London School of Economics Human Rights Blog.
• S. Kozikis, I. T. Winkler. 2020. The paradox of framing water as a human right in the United States: An analysis of power and resistance. Journal of Human Rights.
• R. Schiel, M. Langford, B. M. Wilson. 2020. Does it matter? Constitutionalisation, Democratic Governance, and the Right to Water. Water 2020, 12(2), 350. 10.3390/ w12020350. 350-350.

2019

• L. Côrtes, C. Yamaji. 2019. Homeless in São Paulo fight for drinking water. CMI-UiB Centre on Law and Social Transformation.
• S. Kozikis. 2019. Master thesis. Water is a Human Right – Exploring the Paradox of Framing Water as a Human Right in a Hostile Political Climate. Columbia University.
• J. Dugard. 2019. Sanitation in South Africa: Policy, Practice and Contestation. In P. Cullet, S. Koonan, & L. Bhullar. Right to Sanitation in India: Critical Perspectives. 9780199489855. Oxford University Press.  
• I. Winkler and JoAnn Kamuf Ward. (2019). The United States’ Global Water Strategy must recognize these rights at home. Open Global Rights, June 26, 2019. 
• D. Brinks, S. Levitsky, M. Victoria Murillo. (2019). Understanding Institutional Weakness: Power and Design in Latin American Institutions. Cambridge University Press, Elements Series. 97811087722.

2018

• S. Ekblom. 2018. Master thesis. Recognised but not protected? The human right to safe drinking water and protection of foreign investments in water utility. University of Bergen.
• M. Thorsen. 2018. Master thesis. Water & Power: Has the elevation of the right to water to an independent human right strengthened opportunities for those that have their rights violated in India? University of Bergen.
• M. Thorsen. 2018. Vannmangel er vårt problem. Bergens Tidende.
• M. Thorsen. 2018. Hvem har ansvaret for å sikre folk vann? Bergens Tidende.
• J. Dugard. 2018. Chapter. Basic Services. Public Interest Litigation in South Africa. 9781485128168. Claremont, Cape Town: Juta.

2017

• J. Dugard, M. Langford, E. Anderson. (2017). Determining Progress on Access to Water and Sanitation: The Case Study of South Africa. In “The Human Right to Water. Theory, Practice and Prospects”. Cambridge University Press. 9780511862601.