Research Interests

Cross-border water governance, water-food-energy nexus, governance of common goods, multi-level governance, legal pluralism.

Subjects taught

• Hydropolitics and hydrodiplomacy

Scientific works

• Brethaut, Christian et al. Exploring discursive hydropolitics: a conceptual framework and research agenda. In: International Journal of Water Resources Development, 2021, p. 1−16. doi: 10.1080 / 07900627.2021.1944845

• Brethaut, Christian et al. Power dynamics and integration in the water-energy-food nexus: Learning lessons for transdisciplinary research in Cambodia. In: Environmental Science & Policy, 2019, vol. 94, p. 153−162. doi: 10.1016 / j.envsci.2019.01.010

• Nahrath, Stéphane, Brethaut, Christian. Coordination between institutional resource regimes as a condition for the sustainable management of alpine tourism resources: The case of Crans-Montana (Switzerland). In: Revue de géographie alpine, 2016, vol. 104, no. 3.

• Brethaut, Christian. River Management and Stakeholders' Participation: The case of the Rhone River, a fragmented institutional setting. In: Environmental Policy and Governance, 2016, vol. 26, no. 4, p. 292−305. doi: 10.1002 / eet.1718

• Brethaut, Christian. The operation of the water network of a tourist resort: specificities and local reinterpretation of the rules. In: Flux, 2013, vol. 2, no. 92, p. 36−46.

• Brethaut, Christian. Comparative analysis of institutional regimes for the management of urban water networks in mountain tourist resorts: The cases of Crans-Montana (Switzerland) and Morzine-Avoriaz (France). In: Worlds of tourism, 2012, no. 6, p. 106−108.