Doctoral publications by NEWAVE Early Stage Researchers:

2025

Bilalova, S., Villamayor‑Tomas, S., & Newig, J. (2025). Water‑related problématiques: Five archetypical contexts of water governance. Ecology and Society, 30(1), 10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES‑15681‑300110

Gilson, G. G., & Garrick, D. (2025). Co‑producing water service delivery: A scoping review and typology of informal water vending in Sub‑Saharan Africa. Environmental Research Letters, 20(1), 013004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748‑9326/ad8cf1

Motta, S., & Koehler, J. (2025). Fractured hegemony and Vietnamese pragmatism in the Red River basin. Geoforum, 161, 104269. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718525000697

Motta, S., Böck, I., Koehler, J., Wolf, A. T., & Pattberg, P. (2025). The financialization of rivers: Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) subsidized hydropower in the Mekong Region’s basins at risk. Global Environmental Change, 90, 102962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102962

Valin, N., & Huitema, D. (2025). Lost in translation: Questioning the role of European evaluations in environmental policy change. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 68(11), 2545–2565. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2024.2317899

Wagner, J., Koehler, J. K. L., & Hope, R. A. (2025). Managing contractual uncertainty for drinking water services in rural Mali. Ecology and Society, 30(1), 28. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES‑15825‑300128

Wagner, J., Merner, S., Innocenti, S., Geling, A., & Hope, R. (2025). Can solar water kiosks generate sustainable revenue streams for rural water services? World Development, 185, 106787. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X23003549

2024

Dona Geagea, & De Tullio, M. F. (2024). Commons‑oriented, but embodied enough? De‑constructing knowledge, experiences, and institutions in Naples’ Water Commons Project. International Journal of the Commons, 18(1). https://thecommonsjournal.org/articles/10.5334/ijc.1325

Hao, W., Cominola, A., & Castelletti, A. (2024). Combining wavelet‑enhanced feature selection and deep learning techniques for multi‑step forecasting of urban water demand. Environmental Research: Infrastructures & Sustainability, 4, 035005. https://doi.org/10.1088/2634‑4505/ad5e1d

Porada, H., Boelens, R., & Vos, J. (2024). Gas extraction governmentality: The depoliticization of Groningen's extractive territorialization. Political Geography, 108, 103001. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629824000332

Porada, H., Boelens, R., & Hogenboom, B. (2024). Entangled territorial controversies: Contesting mining, territorial ordering, and authority in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Geoforum, 155, 104110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104110

Porada, H., Boelens, R., & Vos, J. (2024). Bridging justice struggles: A political ecology of translocal alliance building against extractive industries. Alternautas, 11(2), 1–34. https://doi.org/10.31273/n9gkhy06

Wagner, J., Koehler, J., Dupuis, M., et al. (2024). Is volumetric pricing for drinking water an effective revenue strategy in rural Mali? npj Clean Water, 7, 57. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41545‑024‑00341‑6

2023

Belland, M., Kooy, M., & Zwarteveen, M. (2023). Destabilizing the science of soils: Geoscientists as spokespersons for land subsidence in Semarang, Indonesia. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231161962

Bilalova, S., Newig, J., Tremblay‑Lévesque, L.‑C., Roux, J., Herron, C., & Crane, S. (2023). Pathways to water sustainability? A global study assessing the benefits of integrated water resources management. Journal of Environmental Management, 343, 118179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118179

Dhar, P. (2023). Water security, conflict and cooperation in peri‑urban South Asia: Flows across boundaries. Springer. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783031159732

Geagea, D., Kaika, M., & Dell’Angelo, J. (2023). Recommoning water: Crossing thresholds under citizen‑driven remunicipalisation. Urban Studies, 0(0), 1. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231169612

Motta, S., Wolf, A. T., & Schipper, E. L. F. (2023). Immaterial infrastructures and conflict in the Salween River Basin. Water Alternatives, 16(3), 793–820. https://www.water‑alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol16/v16issue3/793‑a16‑3‑12

Singh, R., Dell’Angelo, J., Oguge, N., & Odote, C. (2023). The role of livelihoods in agrifood sustainability transitions. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2023.01.001

Valin, N., & Huitema, D. (2023). Experts as policy entrepreneurs: How knowledge can lead to radical environmental change. Environmental Science & Policy, 142, 21–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.01.005

Wolde, S. G., D’Odorico, P., & Rulli, M. C. (2023). Environmental drivers of human migration in Sub‑Saharan Africa. Global Sustainability, 6. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2023.17

Zuluaga‑Guerra, P. A., Martinez‑Fernandez, J., Esteve‑Selma, M. A., & Dell’Angelo, J. (2023). A socio‑ecological model of the Segura River basin, Spain. Ecological Modelling, 478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2023.110007

2022

Hao, W., Cominola, A., & Castelletti, A. (2022). Comparing predictive machine learning models for short‑ and long‑term urban water demand forecasting in Milan, Italy. IFAC‑PapersOnLine, 55(33), 92–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.11.015

Publications by other NEWAVE members:

2026

Raniecka, P., Galli, N., Govoni, C., Rulli, M. C., & Dell’Angelo, J. (2026). On the global water crisis: A taxonomy of human–water challenges. Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/on-the-global-water-crisis/

2025

Garrick, D., Gilson, G., Hope, R., Wagner, J., Epstein, G., Okoth, E. O., & Silas, F. (2025). [Title not provided]. Environmental Research: Water, 1, 013001. https://doi.org/10.1088/3033-4942/adcb64

2024

D’Odorico, P., Dell’Angelo, J., & Rulli, M. C. (2024). Water commons grabbing and (in)justice. Nature Water, 2, 300–302. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-024-00231-8

D’Odorico, P., Dell’Angelo, J., & Rulli, M. C. (2024). Appropriation pathways of water grabbing. World Development, 181. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X24003671 

2023

Sardo, M., Epifani, I., D’Odorico, P., et al. (2023). Exploring the water–food nexus reveals the interlinkages with urban human conflicts in Central America. Nature Water, 1, 348–358. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-023-00053-0

Davis, K. F., Müller, M. F., Rulli, M. C., Tatlhego, M., Ali, S., Baggio, J. A., Dell’Angelo, J., Jung, S., Kehoe, L., & Niles, M. T. (2023). Transnational agricultural land acquisitions threaten biodiversity in the Global South. Environmental Research Letters, 18, 024014. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acb2de

Hoogesteger, J., Bolding, A., Sanchis‑Ibor, C., Veldwisch, G. J., Venot, J. P., Vos, J., & Boelens, R. (2023). Communality in farmer managed irrigation systems: Insights from Spain, Ecuador, Cambodia and Mozambique. Agricultural Systems, 204, 103552. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2022.103552

Dell’Angelo, Rulli & D’Odorico. (2023). Will war in Ukraine escalate the global land rush? Science, 379(6634), 752–755. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf6836 

2022

Davis, K. F., Koo, H. I., Dell’Angelo, J., et al. (2020). Tropical forest loss enhanced by large‑scale land acquisitions. Nature Geoscience, 13, 482–488. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0592-3  

Batubara, B., Kooy, M., Leynseele, Y. V., Zwarteveen, M., & Ujianto, A. (2022). Urbanization in (post‑)New Order Indonesia: Connecting unevenness in the city with that in the countryside. The Journal of Peasant Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2088415 

Boelens, R. (2022). Rivers of scarcity: Utopian water regimes and flows against the current. Alternautas, 9(1), 14‑53. https://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2077-18962022000100014 

Boelens, R., Escobar, A., Bakker, K., Hommes, L., Swyngedouw, E., Hogenboom, B., … Wantzen, K. M. (2022). Riverhood: Political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice. The Journal of Peasant Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2120810

Challies, E., & Newig, J. (2022). Water, rivers and wetlands: Governance paradigms and principles. In Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics (pp. 512‑525). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Global-Environmental-Politics/ 

Chiarelli, D. D., D’Odorico, P., Müller, M. F., Mueller, N. D., Davis, K. F., Dell’Angelo, J., Penny, G., & Rulli, M. C. (2022). Competition for water induced by transnational land acquisitions for agriculture. Nature Communications, 13(1), 1‑9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29028-5

Dell’Angelo, J., Navas, G., Witteman, M., D’Alisa, G., Scheidel, A., & Temper, L. (2022). Commons grabbing and agribusiness: Violence, resistance and social mobilization. Ecological Economics, 184, 107004. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107004  

Galli, N., Dell’Angelo, J., Epifani, I., Chiarelli, D. D., & Rulli, M. C. (2022). Socio‑hydrological features of armed conflicts in the Lake Chad Basin. Nature Sustainability, 5(10), 843‑852. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00923-1

Gerlak, A. K., Louder, E., & Ingram, H. (2022). An intersectional approach to water equity in the US. Water Alternatives, 15(1), 1‑12. https://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol15/v15issue1/677-a15-1-11

Guaita García, N., Martínez‑Fernández, J., Barrera Causil, C. J., & Fitz, H. C. (2022). Stakeholder analysis and prioritization of management measures for a sustainable development in the social‑ecological system of the Mar Menor (SE, Spain). Environmental Development, 42, 100701. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envdev.2022.100701

Hommes, L., Hoogesteger, J., & Boelens, R. (2022). (Re)making hydrosocial territories: Materializing and contesting imaginaries and subjectivities through hydraulic infrastructure. Political Geography, 97, 102698. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102698

Jager, N. W., King, J. P., & Siebenhüner, B. (2022). New challenges and established policy fields – Assessing stability and change in climate adaptation policy through a lock‑in perspective. dms – der moderne staat – Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management, 15(2), 1‑19. https://www.hanser-elibrary.com/doi/10.3139/dms.110.020 

Mills‑Novoa, M., Boelens, R., Hoogesteger, J., & Vos, J. (2022). Resisting, leveraging, and reworking climate change adaptation projects from below: Placing adaptation in Ecuador’s agrarian struggle. The Journal of Peasant Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2022.2144252

Reyes Escate, L., Hoogesteger, J., & Boelens, R. (2022). Water assemblages in hydrosocial territories: Connecting place, space, and time through the cultural‑material signification of water in coastal Peru. Geoforum, 135, 61‑70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2022.01.013

Thiri, M. A., Villamayor‑Tomás, S., Scheidel, A., & Demaria, F. (2022). How social movements contribute to staying within the global carbon budget: Evidence from a qualitative meta‑analysis of case studies. Ecological Economics, 195, 107356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107356

van den Berge, J., Vos, J., & Boelens, R. (2022). Water justice and Europe’s Right2Water movement. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 38(1), 173‑191. https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2021.2015001

Venot, J. P., Vos, J., Molle, F., Zwarteveen, M., Veldwisch, G. J., Kuper, M., … Linton, J. (2022). A bridge over troubled waters. Nature Sustainability, 5(2), 92. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00821-1

Villamayor‑Tomas, S., García‑López, G., & D’Alisa, G. (2022). Social movements and commons: In theory and in practice. Ecological Economics, 194, 107328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107328

Xu, Q., Veldwisch, G. J., & Boelens, R. (2022). Rural drinking water governance politics in China: Governmentality schemes and negotiations from the grassroots. Political Geography, 97, 102703. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102703

2021 (oldest)

Boelens, R., Forigua‑Sandoval, J., Duarte‑Abadía, B., & Gutiérrez‑Camargo, J. C. (2021). River lives, river movements: Fisher communities mobilizing local and official rules in defense of the Magdalena River. The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 53(3), 458‑476. https://doi.org/10.1080/07329113.2021.1894115

Duarte‑Abadía, B., Boelens, R., & Buitrago, E. (2021). Neoliberal commensuration and new enclosures of the commons: Mining and market–environmentalism governmentalities. Territory, Politics, Governance. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2021.1878873

Gerlak, A. K., Karambelkar, S., & Ferguson, D. B. (2021). Knowledge governance and learning: Examining challenges and opportunities in the Colorado River basin. Environmental Science & Policy, 125, 219‑230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.06.012

Manosalvas, R., Hoogesteger, J., & Boelens, R. (2021). Contractual reciprocity and the re‑making of community hydrosocial territories: The case of La Chimba in the Ecuadorian páramos. Water, 13(11), 1600. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13111600

Martínez‑Fernández, J., Baños‑González, I., & Esteve‑Selma, M. A. (2021). An integral approach to address socio‑ecological systems sustainability and their uncertainties. Science of the Total Environment, 762, 144457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144457

Martínez‑Fernández, J., Esteve‑Selma, M. A., & Zuluaga Guerra, P. A. (2021). Agua y sostenibilidad: Hacia una transición hídrica en el sureste ibérico. Ecosistemas, 30(3), 2254. https://www.rjb.csic.es/journals/issue/Volumes_2021/30_3.htm

Martínez‑Fernández, J., Hernández‑Mora, N., Del Moral, L., & La Roca, F. (2021). Balanç de tres dècades d’evolució de les polítiques de l’aigua a Espanya. In Bienes Comunes y Políticas Neoliberales (pp. 93‑115). L’Observatori DESC & L’Observatori del Deute en la Globalització: Barcelona. https://desc.cat/en/publicacions 

Prieto López, A., Duarte‑Abadía, B., & Boelens, R. (2021). Territory in conflict: Land dispossession, water grabbing and mobilization for environmental justice in southern Spain. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 37(6), 996‑1020. https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2021.1955978

Shah, E., & Boelens, R. (2021). The moralization of hydraulics: Reflections on the normative‑political dimensions of water control technology. Geoforum, 121, 93‑104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.02.017

Shah, E., Vos, J., Veldwisch, G. J., Boelens, R., & Duarte‑Abadía, B. (2021). Environmental justice movements in globalising networks: A critical discussion on social resistance against large dams. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 48(5), 1008‑1032. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2021.1962895

van den Berge, J., Vos, J., Boelens, R., Kishimoto, S., & Jonker, P. (2021). Interview article: Water movements’ defense of the right to water. The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 53(3), 438‑457. https://doi.org/10.1080/07329113.2021.1894114

Villamayor‑Tomas, S., & García‑López, G. A. (2021). Commons movements: Old and new trends in rural and urban contexts. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 46, 511‑543. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-012220-014945

Zuniga‑Teran, A. A., Gerlak, A. K., Elder, A. D., & Tam, A. (2021). The unjust distribution of urban green infrastructure is just the tip of the iceberg: A systematic review of place‑based studies. Environmental Science & Policy, 126, 234‑245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.08.009