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 …

Since the early 1990s, the Mekong basin has been transformed from a largely free-flowing
basin to one that is increasingly impounded by large hydropower dams, impacting river …

The purpose of this article is to begin a discussion of how Indigenous ontologies and
practices might be brought to bear on water policy and management in Europe. Such a …

Forestry plantations on Mapuche lands in southern Chile are a critical socio-environmental
issue. Through the lens of political ecology and using methods based on historical review …

In response to capitalist territorial transformations, humans' predatory subjection of nature,
and worldwide socio-environmental injustices, a diverse set of eco-centric, other-than …

Over the last 150 years or so engineers, farmers, scientists, and many others around the
globe have gained access to the waters that lie underground with drilling technology, pumps …

The advance of electromobility has boosted global demand and interest in lithium. The
consequent expansion of lithium mining puts the sustainability of Chile's Andean salt flats at …

This contribution points out that while the importance of hydrologic, geomorphic, ecological,
temporal, and socio‐cultural connectivity in the functioning of hydrosystems has been …

Over recent decades, hydrosocial scholarship focusing on the plural, often contested
relations of waters and societies has advanced significantly. This article reviews hydrosocial …

The field of water ethics focuses on the judgments affecting water use and decision making,
as well as their normative justification. These justifications can take many forms …