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Why infrastructure still matters: unravelling water reform processes in an uneven waterscape in rural Kenya

International Journal of the Commons, 2016
Since the 1980s, a major change took place in public policies for water resources management. Whereas before governments primarily invested in the development, operation and maintenance of water infrastructure and were mainly concerned with the ...
Jeltsje Sanne Kemerink, Stephen Ngao Munyao, Klaas Schwartz, Rhodante Ahlers, Pieter van der Zaag   +4 more
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Socio-hydrological spaces in the Jamuna River floodplain in Bangladesh [PDF]

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2018
Socio-hydrology aims to understand the dynamics and co-evolution of coupled human–water systems, with research consisting of generic models as well as specific case studies.
M. R. Ferdous, M. R. Ferdous, A. Wesselink, L. Brandimarte, K. Slager, M. Zwarteveen, M. Zwarteveen, G. Di Baldassarre, G. Di Baldassarre, G. Di Baldassarre   +9 more
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Degrees of change toward polycentric transboundary water governance: exploring the Columbia River and the Lesotho Highlands Water Project

Ecology and Society, 2019
Complex challenges emerging in transboundary river basins reveal a need to include a range of interests and actors in governance processes. Polycentric governance is one framework that can address this need and inform adaptive and resilient governance ...
William Jesse Baltutis, Michele-Lee Moore   +1 more
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COVID-19 in Rural India, Algeria, and Morocco: A Feminist Analysis of Small-Scale Farmers' and Agricultural Laborers' Experiences and Inventive Practices

Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 2021
In this paper we present a situated analysis of the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the life of small-scale farmers and agricultural laborers in India, Algeria, and Morocco.
Irene Leonardelli, Irene Leonardelli, Lisa Bossenbroek, Hind Ftouhi, Zakaria Kadiri, Sneha Bhat, Seema Kulkarni, Meriem Farah Hamamouche, Meriem Farah Hamamouche, Mohamed Amine Saidani, Mohamed Amine Saidani, Mohamed Amine Saidani, Mohamed Amine Saidani, Margreet Zwarteveen, Margreet Zwarteveen, Jeltsje Sanne Kemerink-Seyoum, Jeltsje Sanne Kemerink-Seyoum   +16 more
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The effects of low levels of trivalent ions on a standard strain of Escherichia coli (ATCC 11775) in aqueous solutions

MicrobiologyOpen, 2018
Considering the ever‐growing usage of trivalent salts in water treatment, for example, lanthanum salts in rare earth, AlCl3 and FeCl3, the effects of different trivalent cations on the bacterium Escherichia coli (E.
Can Deng, Xinpeng Li, Xinkai Xue, Richard M. Pashley   +3 more
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Analytical note: Seventeen questions of water governance [PDF]

آب و توسعه پایدار, 2023
Nowadays, the term governance has become one of the most used terms in policy making. Part of its attractiveness is that the concept of governance in a way shows the weakening of the state-centered views of power and the direction of policies towards ...
Mehdi Fasihi Harandi
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Realising the Human Right to Water in Costa Rica through Social Movements

Utrecht Law Review, 2020
This article examines human rights from the perspective of social constructions and as the result of historical processes. This means that human rights, as we know them today, are the result of dynamic and historical struggles.
Gabriela Cuadrado-Quesada
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Predicting the salt water intrusion in the Shatt al-Arab estuary using an analytical approach [PDF]

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2016
Longitudinal and vertical salinity measurements are used in this study to predict the extent of inland seawater intrusion in a deltaic river estuary. A predictive model is constructed to apply to the specific tidal, seasonal, and discharge variability
A. D. Abdullah, A. D. Abdullah, A. D. Abdullah, J. I. A. Gisen, J. I. A. Gisen, P. van der Zaag, P. van der Zaag, H. H. G. Savenije, U. F. A. Karim, I. Masih, I. Popescu, I. Popescu   +11 more
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An Overview on Research and Innovation in Water Sector of Iran: the Necessity of Paradigm Shifts [PDF]

علوم و مهندسی آب و فاضلاب, 2020
As illustrated by World Economic Forum, the developed and developing countries are differentiated by the relevance of their economy to Innovation. Innovation is the engagement of many different individual and institutional actors and one of its key ...
Mojtaba Shafiei, Maysam Majidi, Mohammad Gharesifard, Samaneh Tavakoli Aminian, Fariba Ghanbari   +4 more
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On Water Governance: Reforming Governance to Solve India’s Water Crisis

Ecology, Economy and Society – The INSEE Journal, 2018
Mihir Shah
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