June 2012

Special Issue: Water grabbing? Focus on the (re)appropriation of finite water resources
Guest editors: Lyla Mehta, Gert Jan Veldwisch and Jennifer Franco

Introduction to the Special Issue: Water grabbing? Focus on the (re)appropriation of finite water resources
Lyla Mehta, Gert Jan Veldwisch and Jennifer Franco
Water Alternatives 5(2): 193-207              Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

Foreign agricultural land acquisition and the visibility of water resource impacts in sub-Saharan Africa
Philip Woodhouse
Water Alternatives 5(2): 208-222               Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

Water implications of foreign direct investment in Ethiopia’s agricultural sector
Deborah Bossio, Teklu Erkossa, Yihun Dile, Matthew McCartney, Franziska Killiches and Holger Hoff
Water Alternatives 5(2): 223-242              Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

Water implications of large-scale land acquisitions in Ghana
Timothy O. Williams, Benjamin Gyampoh, Fred Kizito and Regassa Namara
Water Alternatives 5(2): 243-265              Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

Water grabbing and the role of power: Shifting water governance in the light of agricultural foreign direct investment
Andrea Bues and Insa Theesfeld
Water Alternatives 5(2): 266-283              Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

The water connection: Irrigation, water grabbing and politics in southern Morocco
Annabelle Houdret
Water Alternatives 5(2): 284-303              Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

Ostrich-like strategies in Sahelian sands? Land and water grabbing in the Office du Niger, Mali
Thomas Hertzog, Amandine Adamczewski, François Molle, Jean-Christophe Poussin and Jean-Yves Jamin
Water Alternatives 5(2): 304-321              Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

Land and water grabbing in an East African coastal wetland: The case of the Tana delta
Stéphanie Duvail, Claire Médard, Olivier Hamerlynck and Dorothy Wanja Nyingi
Water Alternatives 5(2): 322-343               Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

Contamination of community potable water from land grabbing: A case study from rural Tanzania
Serena Arduino, Giorgio Colombo, Ofelia Maria Ocampo and Luca Panzeri
Water Alternatives 5(2): 344-359                Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

Exploring the politics of water grabbing: The case of large mining operations in the Peruvian Andes
Milagros Sosa and Margreet Zwarteveen
Water Alternatives 5(1): 360-375               Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

Privatised hydropower development in Turkey: A case of water grabbing?
Mine Islar
Water Alternatives 5(2): 376-391               Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

Water grabbing in the Mekong basin – An analysis of the winners and losers of Thailand’s hydropower development in Lao PDR
Nathanial Matthews
Water Alternatives 5(2): 392-411               Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

Exploiting policy obscurity for legalising water grabbing in the era of economic reform: The case of Maharashtra, India
Subodh Wagle, Sachin Warghade and Mandar Sathe
Water Alternatives 5(2): 412-430               Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

Water grabbing in the Cauca basin: The capitalist exploitation of water and dispossession of afro-descendant communities
Irene Vélez Torres
Water Alternatives 5(2): 421-449               Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

Water grabbing in colonial perspective: Land and water in Israel/Palestine
Stephen Gasteyer, Jad Isaac, Jane Hillal, Sean Walsh, and Katie Hodali
Water Alternatives 5(2): 450-468               Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

Articles

How the Second Delta Committee set the agenda for climate adaptation policy: A Dutch case study on framing strategies for policy change
Simon H. Verduijn, Sander V. Meijerink and Pieter Leroy
Water Alternatives 5(2): 469-484               Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

Environmental injustice in the Onondaga lake waterscape, New York State (USA)
Thomas Perreault, Sarah Wraight and Meredith Perreault
Water Alternatives 5(2): 485-506               Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

Seeing like a subaltern - Historical ethnography of pre-modern and modern tank irrigation technology in Karnataka, India
Esha Shah
Water Alternatives 5(2): 507-528               Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

Large dams and changes in an agrarian society: Gendering the impacts of Damodar Valley Corporation in eastern India
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Water Alternatives 5(2): 529-542               Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

October 2012

With the financial support of WWF, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and German Technical Cooperation (GIZ)

Special issue: Open for business or opening Pandora’s box? A constructive critique of corporate engagement in water policy
Guest editors: Nick Hepworth, Jason Morrison and Upmanu Lall

Open for business or opening Pandora’s Box? A constructive critique of corporate engagement in water policy: An introduction
Nick Hepworth
Water Alternatives 5(3): 543-562              Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

Water footprint: Help or hindrance?
Ashok Kumar Chapagain and David Tickner
Water Alternatives 5(3): 563-581              Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

Mitigating corporate water risk: Financial market tools and supply management
Wendy M. Larson, Paul L. Freedman, Viktor Passinsky, Edward Grubb and Peter Adriaens
Water Alternatives 5(3): 582-602              Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

The private sector’s contribution to water management: Re-examining corporate purposes and company roles
Peter Newborne and Nathaniel Mason
Water Alternatives 5(3): 603-618              Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

Investigating food and agribusiness corporations as global water security, management and governance agents: The case of Nestlé, Bunge and Cargill
Suvi Sojamo and Elizabeth Archer Larson
Water Alternatives 5(3): 619-635              Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

From risks to shared value? Corporate strategies in building a global water accounting and disclosure regime
Marco Daniel and Suvi Sojamo
Water Alternatives 5(3): 636-657              Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

Articles

The role of productive water use in women's livelihoods. Evidence from rural Senegal
Emily van Houweling, Ralph Hall, Aissatou Sakho Diop, Jennifer Davis and Mark Seiss
Water Alternatives 5(3): 658-677              Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

Digging, damming or diverting? Small-scale irrigation in the Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia
Irit Eguavoen, Sisay Demeku Derib, Tilaye Teklewold Deneke, Matthew McCartney, Ben Adol Otto and Saeed Seidu Billa
Water Alternatives 5(3): 678-699             Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

The last will be first: Water transfers from agriculture to cities in the Pangani river basin, Tanzania
Hans C. Komakech, Pieter van der Zaag and Barbara van Koppen
Water Alternatives 5(3): 700-720             Abstract   |  Full Text - PDF

Book Reviews

Water fountains in the worldscape (Hynynen et al.; 2012).
Terje Oestigaard
Water Alternatives 5(3): 721-722             Full Text - PDF