After the Floods: The Search for Resilience in Ellicott City - Paperback

Ken Conca is a professor in the Department of Environment, Development, and Health at American University. His research focuses on environment, conflict, and peacebuilding; water politics and governance; and the role of the United Nations in environmental governance. He was a founding member of the UN Environment Programme's Expert Advisory Group on Conflict and Peacebuilding, and is on the Board of Directors of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association. Recent books include the Grawemeyer Award-winning An Unfinished Foundation: The United Nations and Global Environmental Governance and The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy (both with Oxford University Press). Conca earned his Ph.D. from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley.