There is increasing support, in international legal theory and advocacy, for water
governance approaches that go beyond the technocratic, and recognise the reciprocal …

In 2007, for the first time in human history, the world's population became more urban than
rural–a trend that is expected to increase in the coming decades, reaching 66% by 2030 …

Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation responds to an unresolved question in
legal scholarship: how are (or how might be) indigenous peoples' rights included in …

Drawing on an analysis of water access and supply in Cape Town (South Africa) and Accra
(Ghana), we illustrate that neoliberal and human right to water-oriented transformations co …

In this article, I examine how hydropower projects in Mapuche territory both form part of
internationally recognized approaches to develop renewable energy and also anchor …

Anthropological thinking on water security and scarcity can be traced through four scholarly
approaches: political ecology of water scarcity, water insecurity, water economics, and …

This is a chapter about the advent and adoption by water scholars of a new term,“water
security.” How did this term appear, how is it defined, in which settings does it apply, what …

ABSTRACT In 2013 the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI)'Right2Water'collected 1.9 million
signatures across Europe against water privatization. It became the first ever successful ECI …

This paper elucidates different forms and modes by which the two State agencies in
Mumbai, India—the High Court and the municipal government—appropriated the human …

This article contributes to the academic debate surrounding the use of the human right to
water in campaigns against neoliberal water policy. It examines overlaps between human …