Research of Water Resources Management
Our overall mission is to improve water and food securities, by paying particular attention to water-based forms of social vulnerability. We ask questions about how technologies, policies and realities about water are constructed and contested, we embed our research in collaborative networks of multiple water actors at different scales, and actively link our research to capacity building and policy initiatives to generate societal impact.
Principles
Our research reflects a combination of the following principles:
- Commitment to contribute to equity, democracy, and sustainability of water management
- A socio-technical approach to study how water management practices, policies, and discourses are shaped by the interplay of socio-political, technological and physical processes
- Diverse spatial, temporal and organizational scales of analysis to study how water issues are shaped and linked across scales.
Research themes
Agricultural water management
Agricultural Water Management encompasses the research field of water resources use efficiency and productivity of agricultural systems from plot, scheme, system to landscape level.
Water governance
We study how different societies organise the extraction, provision, financing, use and disposal of water for different uses and users, as well as the protection of water sources.
Contested knowledges
Contested Knowledges focuses on how knowledge interrelates with power and politics to shape water governance, control and use.