As attention increasingly turns to the sustainability of rural water supplies-and not simply
overall levels of coverage or access-water point functionality has become a core concern for …

Water governance research is confronted with a messy world that is difficult to make sense
of. Mainstream policy approaches tend to simplify and standardise this messiness in ways …

Building new space for institutional theory, we propose how the severity of formal and
informal institutional voids shapes the productivity of entrepreneurial activities within society …

This special issue furthers the study of natural resource management from a critical
institutional perspective. Critical institutionalism (CI) is a contemporary body of thought that …

Highlights•Groundwater sustainability requires challenging water-intensive forms of
agriculture.•There is a need for pluralizing ways of understanding and doing groundwater …

Over the past two decades, scholars have invoked EP Thompson's and James Scott's
concept of a “moral economy” to explain how people mobilize notions of justice to make …

After independence, and in accordance with global environmental policies, the government
of Namibia partly transferred the responsibility for managing wildlife and water to local …

In recent years,'critical institutionalism'has emerged as a school of thought in its own right.
Among its strengths is a focus on institutions as both complex and embedded, where …

Water problems due to scarcity, inaccessibility, or poor quality are a major barrier to
household functioning, livelihood, and health globally. Household-to-household water …

Water sharing offers insight into the everyday and, at times, invisible ties that bind people
and households with water and to one another. Water sharing can take many forms …