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  1. (De)centralized Water Futures: Key Dimensions of Infrastructure, Governance, and Operations

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water, September 2025, Wiley

    Dr Leila M Harris

  2. Sweet deal, bitter landscape: gender politics and liminality in Tanzania’s new enclosures

    Article • Environmental Politics, December 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  3. Can household water sharing advance water security? An integrative review of water entitlements and entitlement failures

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, December 2024, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Leila M Harris

  4. Governing Nature

    Article • August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  5. Beyond Material Dimensions of Water Insecurity

    Article • July 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  6. Gendered Intersections in Water and Development

    Article • October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  7. Gender identities, water insecurity, and risk: Re‐theorizing the connections for a gender‐inclusive toolkit for water insecurity research

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water, August 2023, Wiley

    Dr Leila M Harris

  8. Gender and sustainability reporting – Critical analysis of gender approaches in mining

    Article • Resources Policy, March 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Leila M Harris

  9. Learning from Aotearoa: Water governance challenges and debates

    Article • New Zealand Geographer, March 2022, Wiley

    Dr Leila M Harris

  10. Water governance in two urban African contexts: agency and action through participatory video

    Article • Research for All, January 2022, UCL Press

    Dr Leila M Harris

  11. Beyond Local Case Studies in Political Ecology: Spatializing Agricultural Water Infrastructure in Maharashtra Using a Critical, Multimethods, and Multiscalar Approach

    Article • Annals of the American Association of Geographers, September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  12. De-politicising seawater desalination: Environmental Impact Assessments in the Atacama mining Region, Chile

    Article • Environmental Science & Policy, June 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Leila M Harris

  13. Household water insecurity will complicate the ongoing COVID-19 response: Evidence from 29 sites in 23 low- and middle-income countries

    Article • International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, May 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Leila M Harris

  14. Lived experiences of ‘peak water’ in the high mountains of Nepal and Peru

    Article • Climate and Development, April 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  15. Everyday Experiences of Water Insecurity: Insights from Underserved Areas of Accra, Ghana

    Article • Daedalus, January 2021, The MIT Press

    Dr Leila M Harris

  16. From needs to actions: prospects for planned adaptations in high mountain communities

    Article • Climatic Change, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leila M Harris

  17. Exposing the myths of household water insecurity in the global north: A critical review

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water, October 2020, Wiley

    Dr Leila M Harris

  18. Water sharing and the right to water: Refusal, rebellion and everyday resistance

    Article • Political Geography, October 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Leila M Harris

  19. Rural–Urban Water Struggles

    Article • June 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  20. Gender-Sensitive Analysis of Water Governance: Insights for Engendering Energy Transitions

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leila M Harris

  21. Health, environment and colonial legacies: Situating the science of pesticides, bananas and bodies in Ecuador

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, October 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Leila M Harris

  22. Re-Theorizing Politics in Water Governance

    Article • Water, July 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Leila M Harris

  23. Assessing states: Water service delivery and evolving state–society relations in Accra, Ghana and Cape Town, South Africa

    Article • Environment and Planning C Politics and Space, July 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Leila M Harris

  24. The Legal Geographies of Water Claims: Seawater Desalination in Mining Regions in Chile

    Article • Water, April 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Leila M Harris

  25. Water is Medicine: Reimagining Water Security through Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Relationships to Treated and Traditional Water Sources in Yukon, Canada

    Article • Water, March 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Leila M Harris

  26. The rural–urban equity nexus of Metro Manila’s water system

    Article • Water International, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  27. Rural–urban water struggles: urbanizing hydrosocial territories and evolving connections, discourses and identities

    Article • Water International, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  28. Evolving connections, discourses and identities in rural–urban water struggles

    Article • Water International, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  29. Household water sharing: a missing link in international health

    Article • International Health, December 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Leila M Harris

  30. Social Capital, political empowerment and social difference: a mixed-methods study of an ecotourism project in the rural Volta region of Ghana

    Article • Journal of Sustainable Tourism, December 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  31. Small systems, big challenges: review of small drinking water system governance

    Article • Environmental Reviews, December 2018, Canadian Science Publishing

    Dr Leila M Harris

  32. Water Scarcity Beyond Crisis: Spotlight on Accra

    Article • December 2018, Urban Research Publications Ltd

    Dr Leila M Harris

  33. The human right to water and policy change in Cape Town, South Africa, and Accra, Ghana

    Article • World Development, October 2018, Elsevier

    Julian S Yates, Dr Leila M Harris

  34. Developing new urban water supplies: investigating motivations and barriers to groundwater use in Cape Town

    Article • International Journal of Water Resources Development, September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  35. Gender and marine protected areas: a case study of Danajon Bank, Philippines

    Article • Maritime Studies, September 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leila M Harris

  36. Household water sharing: A review of water gifts, exchanges, and transfers across cultures

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water, September 2018, Wiley

    Melissa Beresford, Dr Leila M Harris

  37. Indigenous women respond to fisheries conflict and catalyze change in governance on Canada’s Pacific Coast

    Article • Maritime Studies, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leila M Harris

  38. The antinomies of nature and space

    Article • Environment and Planning E Nature and Space, March 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Leila M Harris

  39. Critical video engagements: Empathy, subjectivity and changing narratives of water resources through participatory video

    Article • Geoforum, March 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Leila M Harris

  40. Advancing methods for research on household water insecurity: Studying entitlements and capabilities, socio-cultural dynamics, and political processes, institutions and governance

    Article • Water Security, November 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Leila M Harris

  41. Water Materialities and Citizen Engagement: Testing the Implications of Water Access and Quality for Community Engagement in Ghana and South Africa

    Article • Society & Natural Resources, October 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  42. Pathways for Participatory Water Governance in Ashaiman, Ghana: Learning from Institutional Bricolage and Hydrosocial Perspectives

    Article • Society & Natural Resources, October 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  43. Worlding the Intangibility of Resilience: The Case of Rice Farmers and Water-Related Risk in the Philippines

    Article • World Development, October 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Leila M Harris

  44. Water justice

    Article • September 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  45. Advancing human capabilities for water security: A relational approach

    Article • Water Security, July 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Leila M Harris

  46. Political Ecologies of Global Health: Pesticide Exposure in Southwestern Ecuador's Banana Industry

    Article • Antipode, June 2017, Wiley

    Dr Leila M Harris

  47. Framing community entitlements to water in Accra, Ghana: A complex reality

    Article • Geoforum, June 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Leila M Harris

  48. Water, equity and resilience in Southern Africa: future directions for research and practice

    Article • Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, June 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Leila M Harris

  49. Political ecologies of the state: Recent interventions and questions going forward

    Article • Political Geography, May 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Leila M Harris

  50. Multiple ontologies of water

    Article • Environment and Planning D Society and Space, March 2017, SAGE Publications

    Julian S Yates, Dr Leila M Harris

  51. Inserting rights and justice into urban resilience: a focus on everyday risk

    Article • Environment and Urbanization, March 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Gina Ziervogel, Dr Leila M Harris, Patricia Zweig, Dr Kavya Michael, Dianne Scott

  52. Whose input counts? Evaluating the process and outcomes of public consultation through the BC Water Act Modernization

    Article • Critical Policy Studies, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  53. Canadian Drinking Water Policy: Jurisdictional Variation in the Context of Decentralized Water Governance

    Article • November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leila M Harris

  54. Navigating the tensions in collaborative watershed governance: Water governance and Indigenous communities in British Columbia, Canada

    Article • Geoforum, July 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Leila M Harris

  55. Intersections of gender and water: comparative approaches to everyday gendered negotiations of water access in underserved areas of Accra, Ghana and Cape Town, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Gender Studies, March 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  56. Considering the human right to water from an environmental justice perspective

    Article • Politics Groups and Identities, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  57. Microbial risk governance: challenges and opportunities in fresh water management in Canada

    Article • Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques, June 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  58. Participation’s limits

    Article • March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  59. Framing the debate on water marketization

    Article • March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  60. Variable histories and geographies of marketization and privatization

    Article • March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  61. Placing hegemony

    Article • March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  62. Introduction

    Article • March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  63. Foreword

    Article • March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  64. Deconstructing the Map after 25 Years: Furthering Engagements with Social Theory

    Article • Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, March 2015, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Dr Leila M Harris

  65. Using Subjectivity and Emotion to Reconsider Participatory Natural Resource Management

    Article • World Development, December 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Leila M Harris

  66. Improving fisheries estimates by including women’s catch in the Central Philippines

    Article • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, May 2014, Canadian Science Publishing

    Dr Leila M Harris

  67. Drinking Water Quality Guidelines across Canadian Provinces and Territories: Jurisdictional Variation in the Context of Decentralized Water Governance

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, April 2014, MDPI AG

    Dr Leila M Harris

  68. Imaginative Geographies of Green: Difference, Postcoloniality, and Affect in Environmental Narratives in Contemporary Turkey

    Article • Annals of the Association of American Geographers, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  69. What are some concerns related to how to communicate issues of water quality risks to the public.

    Article • Journal of Water and Health, February 2014, IWA Publishing

    Dr Leila M Harris

  70. Gender and small‐scale fisheries: a case for counting women and beyond

    Article • Fish and Fisheries, February 2014, Wiley

    Dr Leila M Harris

  71. Performing Scale

    Article • January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  72. A comparative analysis of current microbial water quality risk assessment and management practices in British Columbia and Ontario, Canada

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Leila M Harris

  73. Citizenshit: The Right to Flush and the Urban Sanitation Imaginary

    Article • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space, January 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Leila M Harris

  74. Participation, politics, and panaceas: exploring the possibilities and limits of participatory urban water governance in Accra, Ghana

    Article • Ecology and Society, January 2014, Resilience Alliance, Inc.

    Dr Leila M Harris

  75. Recent waves of water governance: Constitutional reform and resistance to neoliberalization in Latin America (1990–2012)

    Article • Geoforum, December 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Leila M Harris

  76. Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South

    Article • May 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  77. State as Socionatural Effect: Variable and Emergent Geographies of the State in Southeastern Turkey

    Article • Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East, May 2012, Duke University Press

    Dr Leila M Harris

  78. Neo(liberal) citizens of Europe: politics, scales, and visibilities of environmental citizenship in contemporary Turkey

    Article • Citizenship Studies, October 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  79. Human Right to Water: Contemporary Challenges and Contours of a Global Debate

    Article • Antipode, August 2011, Wiley

    Dr Leila M Harris

  80. Negotiating hydro-scales, forging states: Comparison of the upper Tigris/Euphrates and Jordan River basins

    Article • Political Geography, March 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Leila M Harris

  81. Contested sustainabilities: assessing narratives of environmental change in southeastern Turkey

    Article • Local Environment, September 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  82. Gender and emergent water governance: comparative overview of neoliberalized natures and gender dimensions of privatization, devolution and marketization

    Article • Gender Place & Culture, July 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  83. Water Rich, Resource Poor: Intersections of Gender, Poverty, and Vulnerability in Newly Irrigated Areas of Southeastern Turkey

    Article • World Development, December 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Leila M Harris

  84. Modernizing the nation: Postcolonialism, postdevelopmentalism, and ambivalent spaces of difference in southeastern Turkey

    Article • Geoforum, September 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Leila M Harris

  85. Limits of territorially-focused conservation: a critical assessment based on cartographic and geographic approaches

    Article • Environmental Conservation, December 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Leila M Harris

  86. Irrigation, Gender, and Social Geographies of the Changing Waterscapes of Southeastern Anatolia

    Article • Environment and Planning D Society and Space, April 2006, SAGE Publications

    Dr Leila M Harris

  87. Contested Waters: Conflict, Scale, and Sustainability in Aquatic Socioecological Systems

    Article • Society & Natural Resources, September 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  88. Water and Conflict Geographies of the Southeastern Anatolia Project

    Article • Society & Natural Resources, September 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Leila M Harris

  89. Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Dr Leila M Harris

  90. Neoliberalism, Nature, and Changing Modalities of Environmental Governance in Contemporary Turkey

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Leila M Harris

  91. Indigenous Peoples and Water Governance in Canada

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Leila M Harris