Volume 21, August 2016, Pages 52–57 We explore the relationship between water security (WS) and adaptive capacity (AC); the two concepts are connected because achieving the first may be dependent…
Advancing Metrics: Models for understanding adaptive capacity and water security
ISSC concept note: Water Governance Challenges, Mexico City and Phoenix
Download PDF (287 KB) Mexico City, Phoenix, and other populous cities around the world are caught in a complex of problems concerning the quality and quantity of water, and its…
ISSC concept note: Water, Waste and Sustainable Cities in India
Download PDF (326 KB) Urban areas in India suffer significant challenges associated with water and waste, with direct implications for agriculture, health and food safety. Local innovations, often in informal…
Nexus Nirvana or Nexus Nullity? A dynamic approach to security and sustainability in the water-energy-food nexus
Over the last several years, the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus has emerged as an increasingly prominent global policy, governance and research agenda. Water, energy, and food security are often framed to…
Policy transformations and translations: lessons for sustainable water management in peri-urban Delhi, India
This paper explores the complex interactions that occur as formal policies are interpreted and utilised to develop water management plans in peri-urban Delhi. With an emphasis on people’s participation in…
The Water Cookbook
The Water Cookbook presents ideas from our project on peri-urban sustainability in Ghaziabad, India. It is a short graphic novel combining pictures with some brief stories from daily life in…
Special issue: Water grabbing? Focus on the (re)appropriation of finite water resources
Special issue of the journal Water Alternatives, edited by Lyla Mehta, Gert Jan Veldwisch and Jennifer Franco Recent large-scale land acquisitions for agricultural production (including biofuels), popularly known as ‘land grabbing’,…
Water and Justice: Peri-urban pathways in Delhi
This short film from the STEPS Centre tells the story of three people and their relationship with water in the towns and villages on the edge of Delhi, India. The…
‘It is our dirty little secret’: An ethnographic study of the flying toilets in Kibera slums, Nairobi
Using the case study of the Kibera slums, this paper takes a medical anthropological approach to discuss and explain the untold and common practice among the urban poor in developing…
Reforming water rights: dynamics, discourses and risks
The increasing recognition of water as a vital substance for which demand is spiralling has resulted in scarcity scenarios and tales of a ‘looming water crisis’ becoming staple fare for…