Larry Swatuk

Professor Emeritus
Larry Swatuk

Contact Information
lswatuk@uwaterloo.ca


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Larry Swatuk is a Emeritus Professor at the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development and is also a Faculty Member of the Water Institute, the Balsillie School of International Affairs and is cross-appointed to the School of Planning and the Department of Geography and Environmental Management. Dr. Swatuks research focuses on the political economy of natural resources with a particular focus on freshwater governance and management in the Global South. He teaches courses in global political economy, theories of international development, and water security. Swatuk is also Associate Editor of the open access journal and a founding member of the .

Courses Previously Taught

  • INDEV 200: Political Economy of Development

  • INDEV 602: Theories of Development

  • INDEV 608: Water and Security

  • INDEV 613: Water, Human Security and Development

Selected Publications

  • Larry A. Swatuk, Gregg Brill, Charon Buchner-Marais, Kirsty Carden, Ernst Conradie, Jenny Day, Joanna Fatch, Jessica Fell, Mafaniso Hara, and Bongani Ncube, eds, 2021. (Water Research Commission)
  • Larry A. Swatuk and Lars Wirkus, eds, 2018. , (London and New York: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management Series).
  • Larry A. Swatuk and Corrine Cash, eds, 2018. , (Palgrave: Macmillan).
  • Larry A. Swatuk, 2018. , (Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press)
  • Joanna Fatch and Larry A. Swatuk, 2018. , Water Security Vol. 4-5, pp. 26-36.
  • Larry A. Swatuk, 2018.. In: Ashok Swain and Joakim Öjendal, eds, Routledge Handbook of Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding (Oxford: Routledge), pp.315-328.

Degrees

  • Ph.D - Political Science & International Relations, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
  • M.A. - Political Science & International Relations, University of Windsor
  • B.A. (Hons.) - Political Science, University of Windsor