Frontiers in páramo water resources research: A multidisciplinary assessment

GM Mosquera, R Hofstede, LL Bremer… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Interdisciplinary knowledge is necessary to achieve sustainable management of natural
resources. However, research is still often developed in an exclusively disciplinary manner …

Gold mining as a potential driver of development in Colombia: Challenges and opportunities

B Betancur-Corredor, JC Loaiza-Usuga… - Journal of cleaner …, 2018 - Elsevier
The Colombian government included gold mining as one of the drivers of development for
the period 2014–2018. Large-scale gold mining is expanding due mainly to international …

Hydrosocial territories: a political ecology perspective

R Boelens, J Hoogesteger, E Swyngedouw… - Water …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
We define and explore hydrosocial territories as spatial configurations of people, institutions,
water flows, hydraulic technology and the biophysical environment that revolve around the …

Waterscapes and hydrosocial territories: Thinking space in political ecologies of water

S Flaminio, G Rouillé-Kielo… - Progress in …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Over the past two decades,'waterscape'and 'hydrosocial territory'have gained momentum in
political ecologies of water. These concepts explore the material outcomes of the interplay of …

Contested hydrosocial territories and disputed water governance: Struggles and competing claims over the Ilisu Dam development in southeastern Turkey

L Hommes, R Boelens, H Maat - Geoforum, 2016 - Elsevier
Dam development in southeastern Turkey is a highly-disputed issue, fanned by the Turkish–
Kurdish conflict, socio-environmental and historical–cultural concerns, and international …

[KNIHA][B] Water, power and identity: The cultural politics of water in the Andes

R Boelens - 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
This book addresses two major issues in natural resource management and political
ecology: the complex conflicting relationship between communities managing water on the …

Territorial pluralism: water users' multi-scalar struggles against state ordering in Ecuador's highlands

J Hoogesteger, R Boelens, M Baud - Hydrosocial Territories and …, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Ecuadorian state policies and institutional reforms have territorialized water since the 1960s.
Peasant and indigenous communities have challenged this ordering locally since the 1990s …

[HTML][HTML] Contested knowledges: Large dams and mega-hydraulic development

R Boelens, E Shah, B Bruins - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
Locally and globally, mega-hydraulic projects have become deeply controversial. Recently,
despite widespread critique, they have regained a new impetus worldwide. The …

Socio-hydrology with hydrosocial theory: two sides of the same coin?

A Ross, H Chang - Hydrological Sciences Journal, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This paper reviews socio-hydrology and hydrosocial research, finding a sophisticated
relationship with emergent syntheses. We examined 419 papers by topic, region of study …

Hydrosocial territories, agro-export and water scarcity: capitalist territorial transformations and water governance in Peru's coastal valleys

G Damonte, R Boelens - Rural–Urban Water Struggles, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
In recent decades, an agro-export boom has deeply transformed Peru's coastal valleys,
resulting in dramatic territorial changes and social inequality in the Ica Valley. This article …