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  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Robert E. Scott is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on topics related to child nutrition and water access, urban and rural development challenges, wastewater treatment and reuse, water governance and infrastructure, fecal contamination and water quality, food waste reduction and sustainability, and global maternal and child health.

Their body of work is reflected across several main fields and subfields of study. The principal field is Nursing, with contributions also spanning Nutrition and Dietetics, Urban Studies, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Political Science and International Relations, and Food Science.

Scott's recent papers include the following publications:

  • "Estimating Safely Managed Sanitation in Urban Areas; Lessons Learned From a Global Implementation of Excreta-Flow Diagrams," 2020, Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • "Access to and factors influencing drinking water and sanitation service levels in informal settlements: Evidence from Kampala, Uganda," 2023, Habitat International
  • "Regulating sanitation services in sub-saharan africa: An overview of the regulation of emptying and transport of faecal sludge in 20 cities and its implementation," 2021, Utilities Policy
  • "Private emptiers' perspectives on the regulation of faecal sludge emptying services in Sub-Saharan Africa," 2021, Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development
  • "Barriers and Enablers to the Regulation of Sanitation Services: A Framework for Emptying and Transport Services in Sub-Saharan African Cities," 2022, Frontiers in Environmental Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Scott include:

  • Sam Kayaga
  • Alix Lerebours
  • Kevin Sansom
  • David Galibourg
  • Katherine V. Gough

Their work has appeared in several publication venues, notably:

  • Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Habitat International
  • Utilities Policy
  • International Development Planning Review

Robert E. Scott was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999.

Best Publications

  • Contracting for Innovation: Vertical Disintegration and Interfirm Collaboration

    Ronald J. Gilson;Charles F. Sabel;Robert E. Scott

  • Contract Theory and the Limits of Contract Law

    Alan Schwartz;Robert E. Scott

  • Braiding: the Interaction of Formal and Informal Contracting in Theory, Practice, and Doctrine

    Ronald J. Gilson;Charles F. Sabel;Robert E. Scott

  • Principles of Relational Contracts

    Charles J. Goetz;Robert E. Scott

  • Liquidated Damages, Penalties and the Just Compensation Principle: Some Notes on an Enforcement Model and a Theory of Efficient Breach

    Charles J. Goetz;Robert E. Scott

  • Anticipating Litigation in Contract Design

    Robert E Scott;George G Triantis

  • Text and Context: Contract Interpretation as Contract Design

    Ronald J. Gilson;Charles F. Sabel;Robert E. Scott

  • Enforcing Promises: An Examination of the Basis of Contract

    Charles J Goetz;Robert E Scott

  • The Limits of Expanded Choice: An Analysis of the Interactions between Express and Implied Contract Terms

    Charles J. Goetz;Robert E. Scott

  • A Theory of Self-Enforcing Indefinite Agreements

    Robert E. Scott

  • Plea Bargaining as Contract

    Robert E. Scott;William J. Stuntz

  • Contract and Innovation: The Limited Role of Generalist Courts in the Evolution of Novel Contractual Forms

    Ronald J. Gilson;Charles F. Sabel;Robert E. Scott

  • Self-Enforcing International Agreements and the Limits of Coercion

    Robert E. Scott;Paul B. Stephan

  • Origin Myths, Contracts, and the Hunt for Pari Passu

    Mark C. Weidemaier;Robert E. Scott;G. Mitu Gulati

  • The Limits of Leviathan: Contract Theory and the Enforcement of International Law

    Robert E. Scott;Paul B. Iii. Stephan

  • A Relational Theory of Secured Financing

    Robert E. Scott

  • The Political Economy of Private Legislatures

    Alan Schwartz;Robert E. Scott

  • The Case for Formalism in Relational Contract

    Robert E. Scott

  • The Three and a Half Minute Transaction: Boilerplate and the Limits of Contract Design

    G. Mitu Gulati;Robert E. Scott

  • Marriage as Relational Contract

    Elizabeth S. Scott;Robert E. Scott

  • Conflict and Cooperation in Long-Term Contracts

    Robert E. Scott

  • Incomplete Contracts and the Theory of Contract Design

    Robert E. Scott;George G. Triantis

  • Corporate bankruptcy: On the nature of bankruptcy: An essay on bankruptcy sharing and the creditors' bargain

    Thomas H. Jackson;Robert E. Scott

  • Precontractual liability and preliminary agreements

    Alan Schwartz;Robert E. Scott

  • A Relational Theory of Default Rules for Commercial Contracts

    Robert E. Scott

  • Parents as Fiduciaries

    Elizabeth S. Scott;Robert E. Scott

  • The Law and Economics of Incomplete Contracts

    Robert E. Scott

  • Rules for Growth: Promoting Innovation and Growth Through Legal Reform

    Robert E. Litan;Yochai Benkler;Henry N. Butler;John Henry Clippinger

  • Contract and Innovation: The Limited Role of Generalist Courts in the Evolution of Novel Contractual Terms

    Ronald J. Gilson;Ronald J. Gilson;Charles F. Sabel;Robert E. Scott

  • The Limits of Leviathan: States, Firms, and the Enforcement of International Law

    Robert E. Scott;Paul B. Stephan

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald J. Gilson
Ronald J. Gilson Columbia University
Alan Schwartz
Alan Schwartz University of Illinois at Chicago
G. Mitu Gulati
G. Mitu Gulati University of Virginia
Charles F. Sabel
Charles F. Sabel Columbia University
Stephen J. Choi
Stephen J. Choi New York University
Alan L. Schwartz
Alan L. Schwartz Washington University in St. Louis
Ariel Porat
Ariel Porat Tel Aviv University
Robert D. Cooter
Robert D. Cooter University of California, Berkeley
Peter H. Schuck
Peter H. Schuck Yale University
Roberta Romano
Roberta Romano Yale University

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