This article reviews and contrasts two approaches that water security researchers employ to
advance understanding of the complexity of water-society policy challenges. A prevailing …

This book addresses two major issues in natural resource management and political
ecology: the complex conflicting relationship between communities managing water on the …

CONTEXT Worldwide farmer managed irrigation systems have provided crops for food, feed
and the market for centuries. From high mountain environments to river valleys and deltas, in …

Contemporary socio-economic transformations in South Asia are creating increasingly
serious water problems (scarcity, flooding, pollution) and conflicts. Conflicts over water …

For decades, researchers have sought to document injustices, highlight activism, and
identify pathways in moving toward environmental justice (EJ). EJ research regarding water …

This article examines the historical evolution of participatory water management in coastal
Bangladesh. Three major shifts are identified: first, from indigenous local systems managed …

In this paper we assess the impact of Franz von Benda-Beckmann's work in the field of water
rights. We argue that his contributions to understanding water, a field dominated by …

Drawing on the adaptation, justice, and resettlement literatures, this study explores the
prospects for procedural (who is involved, how they are selected) and distributive justice …

Rural residential environment governance (RRE), as the first tough battle of China's rural
revitalization strategy, relies on farmers' participation since farmers are the main laborers …

This paper presents an analytical framework to identify and understand grassroots water
governance practices, which we call 'rooted water collectives'(RWC). RWCs can be multi …