February 2015

Special issue: Critical Thinking on the ‘New Security Convergence’ in Energy, Food, Climate and Water: Is the Nexus Secure … and for Whom?
Guest editors: Jeremy Allouche, Carl Middleton, Dipak Gyawali

Technical veil, hidden politics: Interrogating the power linkages behind the nexus
Jeremy Allouche, Carl Middleton and Dipak Gyawali

Water Alternatives 8(1): 610-626               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

The rise and implications of the water-energy-food nexus in Southeast Asia through an environmental justice lens
Carl Middleton, Jeremy Allouche, Dipak Gyawali and Sarah Allen

Water Alternatives 8(1): 627-654               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Node and regime: Interdisciplinary analysis of water-energy-food nexus in the Mekong region
Tira Foran

Water Alternatives 8(1): 655-674               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

The 'nexus' as a step back towards a more coherent water resource management paradigm
Mike Muller

Water Alternatives 8(1): 675-694               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Securitising sustainability? Questioning the 'water, energy and food-security nexus'
Matthias Leese and Simon Meisch

Water Alternatives 8(1): 695-709               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Tackling complexity: Understanding the food-energy-environment nexus in Ethiopia’s Lake Tana sub-basin
Louise Karlberg, Holger Hoff, Tedasse Amsalu, Kim Andersson, Taylor Binnington, Francisco Flores-López, Annemarieke de Bruin, Solomon Gebreyohannis Gebrehiwot, Birhanu Gedif, Oliver Johnson, Friedrich zur Heide, Maria Osbeck, Chuck Young

Water Alternatives 8(1): 710-734               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

The water-energy-food security nexus through the lenses of the value chain and the Institutional Analysis and Development frameworks
Sergio Villamayor-Tomas, Philipp Grundmann, Graham Epstein, Tom Evans and Christian Kimmich

Water Alternatives 8(1): 735-755               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Water governance in a comparative perspective: From IWRM to a 'nexus' approach?
D. Benson, A. Gain and J. Rouillard

Water Alternatives 8(1): 756-773               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Articles

Understanding the political in groundwater management: Comparing Yemen and Ethiopia
Frank van Steenbergen, Assefa Kumsa and Nasser Al-Awlaki

Water Alternatives 8(1): 774-799               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Competition, conflict, and compromise: Three discourses used by irrigators in England and their implications for the comanagement of water resources
Luke Whaley and Edward K. Weatherhead

Water Alternatives 8(1): 800-819               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Power sharing in the English lowlands? The political economy of farmer participation and cooperation in water governance
Luke Whaley and Edward K. Weatherhead

Water Alternatives 8(1): 820-843               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Social norms in water services: Exploring the fair price of water
Ossi Heino and Annina Takala

Water Alternatives 8(1): 844-858               Abstract | Full Text - PDF

June 2015

Special issue: Information and Knowledge for Water Governance in the Networked Society
Guest editors: Belén Pedregal, Leandro Del Moral and Nuria Hernández-Mora

Information and knowledge for water governance in the networked society
Belén Pedregal, Violeta Cabello, Nuria Hernández-Mora, Natalia Limones and Leandro Del Moral

Water Alternatives 8(2): 1-19                      Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Water and climate data in the Ganges Basin: Assessing access to information regimes and implications for cooperation on transboundary rivers
Sagar Prasai and Mandakini Devasher Surie

Water Alternatives 8(2): 20-35                    Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Spatialising agricultural water governance data in polycentric regimes
Faith Sternlieb and Melinda Laituri

Water Alternatives 8(2): 36-56                    Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Not just a tool. Taking context into account in the development of a mobile App for rural water supply in Tanzania
Anna Wesselink, Robert Hoppe and Rob Lemmens

Water Alternatives 8(2): 57-76                    Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Community knowledge sharing and co-production of water services: Two cases of community aqueduct associations in Colombia
Valeria Llano Arias

Water Alternatives 8(2): 77-98                    Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Networked water citizen organizations in Spain: Potential for transformation of existing power structures in water management
Nuria Hernández-Mora, Violeta Cabello, Lucia De Stefano and Leandro Del Moral

Water Alternatives 8(2): 99-124                  Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Does social media benefit dominant or alternative water discourses?
María Mancilla García

Water Alternatives 8(2): 125-146                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Articles

Water conflicts and entrenched governance problems in Chile’s market model
Carl J. Bauer

Water Alternatives 8(2): 147-172                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Discourses of deflection: The politics of framing China’s South-North Water Transfer Project
Britt Crow-Miller

Water Alternatives 8(2): 173-192                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Pockets of participation: Bureaucratic incentives and participatory irrigation management in Thailand
Jacob I. Ricks

Water Alternatives 8(2): 193-214                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Diesel subsidies and Yemen politics: Post-2011 crises and their impact on groundwater use and agriculture
Adel Al-Weshali, Omar Bamaga, Cecilia Borgia, Frank van Steenbergen, Naser Al-Awlaqi and Abdullah Babaqi

Water Alternatives 8(2): 215-236                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Motor pump revolution in Ethiopia: Promises at a crossroads
Mengistu Dessalegn and Douglas J. Merrey

Water Alternatives 8(2): 237-257                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Misrepresenting the Jordan River Basin
Clemens Messerschmid and Jan Selby

Water Alternatives 8(2): 258-279                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Exploring sustainability through stakeholders’ perspectives and hybrid water in the Swiss Alps
Flurina Schneider

Water Alternatives 8(2): 280-296                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Book Reviews

The social life of water (Wagner, J.R. (Ed). 2013).
Michael Agar
Water Alternatives 8(2): 297-300                Full Text - PDF

October 2015

Articles

Which risks get managed? Addressing climate effects in the context of evolving water-governance institutions
Ken Conca

Water Alternatives 8(3): 301-316                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Upgrading domestic-plus systems in rural Senegal: An incremental Income-Cost (I-C) analysis
Ralph P. Hall, Eric A. Vance and Emily van Houweling

Water Alternatives 8(3): 317-336                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Groundwater as a source of conflict and cooperation: Towards creating mutual gains in a Finnish water supply project
Kurki Vuokko and Katko Tapio

Water Alternatives 8(3): 337-351                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Vernacular knowledge and water management – Towards the integration of expert science and local knowledge in Ontario, Canada
Hugh Simpson, Rob de Loë and Jean Andrey

Water Alternatives 8(3): 352-372                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Brazil’s São Luiz do Tapajós Dam: The art of cosmetic Environmental Impact Assessments
Philip M. Fearnside

Water Alternatives 8(3): 373-396                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Virtual water and water footprints: Overreaching into the discourse on sustainability, efficiency, and equity
Dennis Wichelns

Water Alternatives 8(3): 396-414                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

On the sidelines: Social sciences and interdisciplinarity in an international research centre
Jean-Philippe Venot, Mark Giordano and Douglas J. Merrey

Water Alternatives 8(3): 415-432                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Viewpoints

Viewpoint - Paradigm shift of water services: From production mentality to service mindset
Ossi Heino and Annina Takala

Water Alternatives 8(3): 433-446                Abstract | Full Text - PDF

Book Reviews

Water co-management (Grover, V.I. and Krantzberg, G. (Eds). 2013).
Michael Agar
Water Alternatives 8(3): 447-449                Full Text - PDF