Mitigating flash flooding in the city: Drain or harvest?

TV Siphambe, A Aliyu, K Souadji, SA Bayongwa… - Water …, 2024 - iwaponline.com
Rainwater harvesting (RWH) is principally based on collecting, storing, and using rainfall
which would otherwise be lost as surface runoff. Runoff threatens in several ways …

[HTML][HTML] The living legacies of mega water-development projects: Power, politics, and the afterlives of Sri Lanka's Mahaweli Development Project

HM Quealy, K Paranage - Geoforum, 2024 - Elsevier
While the uneven consequences of mega water-development projects are well documented,
less is known about how their legacies continue to evolve over time. This paper offers new …

Capacities for resilience: persisting, adapting and transforming through bricolage

LJ Haider, F Cleaver - Ecosystems and People, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Resilience has become increasingly popular in sustainability research and practice as a
way to describe change. Within this discourse, the notion of resilience as the capacity of …

'Our humanism cannot be captured in the bylaws': How moral ecological rationalities and care shape a smallholder irrigation scheme in Zimbabwe

T Chitata, J Kemerink-Seyoum… - … and Planning E: Nature …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we bring concepts of institutional bricolage, moral ecological rationalities and
care into engagement, to explain the everyday management of an irrigation scheme in …

Socio-Material Bricolage

A Mirhanoğlu, G Özerol, J Hoogesteger… - International Journal of …, 2023 - JSTOR
Drip irrigation is often considered a technological solution to increase water use efficiency
and crop productivity. However, all too often, its social and institutional entanglements are …

[PDF][PDF] Knowing groundwater: embodied encounters with a lively resource

F Cleaver, T Chitata, C de Bont, K Joseph… - Water …, 2023 - water-alternatives.org
This paper is concerned with how water prospectors, well diggers, and irrigation farmers
come to know groundwater. Drawing on cases from Tanzania and Zimbabwe, the paper …

[PDF][PDF] From Divine to Design: Unearthing Groundwater Practices in Tamil Nadu, India

A Verzijl, M Vivek, A Prayag, V Srinivasan… - Water …, 2023 - water-alternatives.org
This paper describes two common groundwater logics in Tamil Nadu: that of dowsing and
that of modelling. Both rely on intimate knowledge and great dedication but have legitimacy …

Caring for groundwater: How care can expand and transform groundwater governance

M Zwarteveen, C Domínguez-Guzmán… - International Journal of …, 2024 - hal.science
Efforts to measure and regulate groundwaters and irrigators are notoriously ineffective. The
starting point of this article, therefore, is to question the continued faith in techno-managerial …

Obliqueness as a feminist mode of analysing waterscapes: Learning to think with overflows

I Leonardelli, J Kemerink-Seyoum… - … and Planning E …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper, we propose obliqueness as a feminist mode to analyse waterscapes,
intersecting feminist political ecology with post-human feminist scholarship. Obliqueness …

Global analysis of social learning's archetypes in natural resource management: understanding pathways of co-creation of knowledge

M Bonatti, M Lana, L Medina, P Chevelev… - Humanities and Social …, 2024 - nature.com
Although social learning (SL) conceptualization and implementation are flourishing in
sustainability sciences, and its non-rigid conceptual fluidity is regarded as an advantage …