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Prof. dr. R.A. (Rutgerd) Boelens

Political Ecology of Water in Latin America (special chair of the Stichting Internationaal Amerikanisten Congres)
Faculty of Humanities
CEDLA
Visiting address
  • Roetersstraat 31
Postal address
  • Postbus 15629
    1001 NC Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Publications

    2023

    • 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 [details]
    • Hoogesteger, J., Suhardiman, D., Boelens, R. A., de Castro, F., Duarte Abadia, B. A., Hidalgo Bastidas, J. P., Liebrand, J., Hernandez-Mora, N., Manorom, K., Veldwisch, G. J., & Vos, J. (2023). River Commoning and the State: A Cross‐Country Analysis of River Defense Collectives. Politics and Governance, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v11i2.6316

    2022

    • Boelens, R. A. (2022). Eau, territoire et conflit. Accaparement, discipline et luttes pour des territoires hydrosociaux plus justes. In C. Nicolas-Artero, S. Velut, G. Schneier-Madanes, F. Poupeau, & C. Chavarochette (Eds.), Luttes pour l’eau dans les Amériques (pp. 122-146). Éditions de l'IHEAL. https://books.openedition.org/iheal/10169#bibliography
    • Boelens, R. A., Escobar, A., Bakker, K., Hommes, L., Swyngedouw, E. A. M., Hogenboom, B. B., huijbens, E., Jackson, S., Vos, J., Harris, L. M., Joy, K. J., de Castro, F., Duarte Abadia, B. A., & Roa Avendaño, L. T. (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
    • 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 [details]
    • Mills-Novoa, M., Boelens, R., & Hoogesteger, J. (2022). Climate change and water justice. In T. M. Letcher (Ed.), Water and Climate Change: Sustainable Development, Environmental and Policy Issues (pp. 399-418). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-99875-8.00014-8 [details]
    • 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. 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.2022.07.005 [details]
    • Xu, Q., Boelens, R., & Veldwisch, G. J. (2022). Rural drinking water governance politics in China: Governmentality schemes and negotiations from below. Political Geography, 97, [102703]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102703 [details]
    • 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/10.1080/07900627.2021.1898347 [details]

    2021

    • Boelens, R. (2021). Large-scale water infrastructure, territorial transformation and water rights dispossession. In J. W. Dellapenna, & J. Gupta (Eds.), Water Law (pp. 425-437). (Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law; Vol. X). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783477005.X.32 [details]
    • Boelens, R. (2021). Water justice: Blatant grabbing practices, subtle recognition politics and the struggles for fair water worlds. In B. Coolsaet (Ed.), Environmental Justice: Key Issues (pp. 207-221). (Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429029585-18 [details]
    • 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/10.1080/21622671.2021.1913216
    • 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 (Switzerland), 13(11), [1600]. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13111600 [details]
    • 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/10.1080/07900627.2020.1854693 [details]
    • 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.2021.02.009 [details]
    • Shah, E., Vos, J., Veldwisch, G. J., Boelens, R., & Duarte-Abadía, B. (2021). Environmental Justice Movements in Globalizing Networks: A Critical Discussion on Social Resistance against Large Dams. Journal of Peasant Studies, 48(5), 1008–1032. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2019.1669566 [details]
    • van den Berge, J., Vos, J., Boelens, R., Kishimoto, S., & Jonker, P. (2021). Interview article: water movements’ defense of the right to water. From the European arena to the Dutch exception. Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 53(3), 438-457. https://doi.org/10.1080/07329113.2021.2013001 [details]

    2020

    2019

    2018

    • Boelens, R., Perreault, T., & Vos, J. (2018). Introduction: Hydrosocial de-patterning and re-composition. In R. Boelens, T. Perreault, & J. Vos (Eds.), Water Justice (pp. 108-114). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847.007 [details]
    • Boelens, R., Perreault, T., & Vos, J. (Eds.) (2018). Water justice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847 [details]
    • Boelens, R., Vos, J., & Perreault, T. (2018). Introduction: The Multiple Challenges and Layers of Water Justice Struggles. In R. Boelens, T. Perreault, & J. Vos (Eds.), Water Justice (pp. 1-32). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847.001 [details]
    • Duarte Abadía, B., Boelens, R., & Du Pré, L. (2018). Alianzas antiembalse y luchas hidroepistemológicas. Los retos de la gestión colectiva del agua en el Río Grande, Málaga, España. Cuadernos de Geografia de la Universitat de Valencia, 101, 107-126. https://doi.org/10.7203/CGUV.101.13723 [details]
    • Dukpa, R. D., Joshi, D., & Boelens, R. (2018). Hydropower development and the meaning of place. Multi-ethnic hydropower struggles in Sikkim, India. Geoforum, 89, 60-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.01.006 [details]
    • Hidalgo Bastidas, J. P., Boelens, R., & Isch, E. (2018). Hydroterritorial Configuration and Confrontation: The Daule-Peripa Multipurpose Hydraulic Scheme in Coastal Ecuador. Latin American Research Review, 53(3), 517–534. https://doi.org/10.25222/larr.362 [details]
    • Hidalgo-Bastidas, J. P., & Boelens, R. (2018). Inundaciones políticamente construidas. El megaproyecto hídrico Chone en Ecuador. Cuadernos de Geografia de la Universitat de Valencia, 101, 127-148. https://doi.org/10.7203/CGUV.101.13724 [details]
    • Hommes, L., & Boelens, R. (2018). From natural flow to ‘working river’: hydropower development, modernity and socio-territorial transformations in Lima's Rímac watershed. Journal of Historical Geography, 62, 85-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2018.04.001 [details]
    • Hommes, L., Boelens, R., Duarte-Abadía, B., Hidalgo-Bastidas, J. P., & Hoogesteger, J. (2018). Reconfiguration of hydrosocial territories and struggles for water justice. In R. Boelens, T. Perreault, & J. Vos (Eds.), Water Justice (pp. 151-168). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847.010 [details]
    • Mena-Vásconez, P., Vos, J., Van Ommen, P., & Boelens, R. (2018). Flores, Acaparamiento del Agua y Responsabilidad Empresarial Social: Certificación de la producción de rosas y reclamos por la justicia ambiental en el Ecuador. Cuadernos de Geografia de la Universitat de Valencia, 101, 189-214. https://doi.org/10.7203/CGUV.101.13727 [details]
    • Perreault, T., Boelens, R., & Vos, J. (2018). Introduction: Governmentality, discourses and struggles over imaginaries and water knowledge. In R. Boelens, T. Perreault, & J. Vos (Eds.), Water Justice (pp. 276-282). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847.018 [details]
    • Sanchis Ibor, C., & Boelens, R. (2018). Gobernanza del agua y territorios hidrosociales: del análisis institucional a la ecología política. Cuadernos de Geografia de la Universitat de Valencia, 101, 13-28. https://doi.org/10.7203/CGUV.101.13718 [details]
    • Sanchis Ibor, C., Boelens, R., & García-Mollá, M. (2018). Cambio tecnológico, privatización y recuperación de la autogestión comunitaria del riego. El caso de Senyera (València). Cuadernos de Geografia de la Universitat de Valencia, 101, 91-106. https://doi.org/10.7203/CGUV.101.13722 [details]
    • Shah, E., Liebrand, J., Vos, J., Veldwisch, G. J., & Boelens, R. (2018). The UN World Water Development Report 2016, Water and Jobs: A Critical Review. Development and Change, 49(2), 678-691. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12395 [details]
    • Stoltenborg, D., & Boelens, R. (2018). Minería de oro: promesas, conflictos y desilusión en Cerro de San Pedro, México. Cuadernos de Geografia de la Universitat de Valencia, 101, 169-188. https://doi.org/10.7203/CGUV.101.13726 [details]
    • Swyngedouw, E., & Boelens, R. (2018). "… And not a single injustice remains”: Hydro-territorial colonization and techno-political transformations in Spain. In R. Boelens, T. Perreault, & J. Vos (Eds.), Water Justice (pp. 115-133). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847.008 [details]
    • Zwarteveen, M., Smit, H., Domínguez Guzmán, C., Fantini, E., Rap, E., van der Zaag, P., & Boelens, R. (2018). Accounting for Water: Questions of Environmental Representation in a Nonmodern World. In S. Lele, E. S. Brondizio, J. Byrne, G. M. Mace, & J. Martinez-Alier (Eds.), Rethinking Environmentalism: Linking Justice, Sustainability, and Diversity (pp. 227-249). (Strüngmann Forum Reports ; No. 23). The MIT Press. [details]
    • van den Berge, J., Boelens, R., & Vos, J. (2018). Uniting diversity to build Europe’s Right2Water movement. In R. Boelens, T. Perreault, & J. Vos (Eds.), Water Justice (pp. 226-245). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847.015 [details]

    2017

    • Boelens, R., & Hoogesteger, J. (2017). Collective Action, Community and the Peasant Economy in Andean Highland Water Control. In D. Suhardiman, A. Nicol, & E. Mapedza (Eds.), Water Governance and Collective Action: Multi-scale Challenges (pp. 96-107). (Earthscan Water text series). London: Routledge. [details]
    • Boelens, R., Hoogesteger, J., Swyngedouw, E., & Vos, J. (2017). Territorios hidrosociales y gubernamentalidad: un enfoque desde la ecología política. In G. Vila Benites, & C. Bonelli (Eds.), A contracorriente: Agua y conflicto en América Latina (pp. 27-48). (Agua y Sociedad; Vol. 25). Abya Yala. [details]
    • Duarte-Abadía, B., & Boelens, R. (2017). El páramo de Santurbán, Colombia: disputas de la conceptualización y valoración de un territorio hidrosocial. In A. Arroyo Castillo, & E. Isch López (Eds.), Los Caminos del Agua (pp. 153-178). (Serie Agua y sociedad). Quito: Abya Yala. [details]
    • Hidalgo Bastidas, J. P., Boelens, R., & Vos, J. (2017). De-colonizing water: Dispossession, water insecurity, and Indigenous claims for resources, authority, and territory. Water History, 9(1), 67-85. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-016-0186-6 [details]
    • Hidalgo, J. P., Boelens, R., & Isch López, E. (2017). Sistema multipropósito de agua Jaime Roldós Aguilera: el territorio hidrosocial como escenario de disputa y resistencia. In A. Arroyo Castillo, & E. Isch López (Eds.), Los Caminos del Agua (pp. 109-132). (Serie Agua y sociedad). Quito: Abya Yala. [details]
    • Hommes, L., & Boelens, R. (2017). Urbanizing rural waters: Rural-urban water transfers and the reconfiguration of hydrosocial territories in Lima. Political Geography, 57, 71-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.12.002 [details]
    • Hoogesteger, J., Boelens, R., & Baud, M. (2017). Territorial pluralism: water users’ multi-scalar struggles against state ordering in Ecuador’s highlands. In R. Boelens, B. Crow, J. Hoogesteger, F. Lu, E. Swyngedouw, & J. Vos (Eds.), Hydrosocial Territories and Water Equity: Theory, Governance, and Sites of Struggle (pp. 266-281). (Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance). London: Routledge. [details]
    • Hoogesteger, J., Vos, J., Boelens, R., Crow, B., Lu, F., & Swyngedouw, E. (2017). Introduction: Interweaving water struggles, the making of territory and social justice. In R. Boelens, B. Crow, J. Hoogesteger, F. Lu, E. Swyngedouw, & J. Vos (Eds.), Hydrosocial Territories and Water Equity: Theory, Governance, and Sites of Struggle (pp. 1-6). (Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance). Routledge. [details]
    • Mena-Vásconez, P., Vincent, L., Vos, J., & Boelens, R. (2017). Fighting over water values: diverse framings of flower and food production with communal irrigation in the Ecuadorian Andes. Water International, 42(4), 443-461. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2017.1309511 [details]
    • Milagros, S., Boelens, R., & Zwarteveen, M. (2017). The Influence of Large Mining: Restructuring Water Rights among Rural Communities in Apurimac, Peru. Human Organization, 76(3), 215-226. https://doi.org/10.17730/0018-7259.76.3.215 [details]
    • Sanchis-Ibor, C., Boelens, R., & Garcia-Molla, M. (2017). Collective irrigation reloaded. Re-collection and re-moralization of water management after privatization in Spain. Geoforum, 87, 38-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.10.002 [details]
    • Stoltenborg, D., & Boelens, R. (2017). Goldmining, Dispossessing the Commons and Multi-Scalar Responses: The Case of Cerro de San Pedro, Mexico. In D. Suhardiman, A. Nicol, & E. Mapedza (Eds.), Water Governance and Collective Action: Multi-scale Challenges (pp. 120-130). (Earthscan Water text series). London: Routledge. [details]
    • Stoltenborg, D., & Boelens, R. (2017). Minería y conflictos sobre agua y tierra: el caso de la minería de oro en Cerro de San Pedro, México. In A. Arroyo Castillo, & E. Isch López (Eds.), Los Caminos del Agua (pp. 25-50). (Serie Agua y sociedad). Quito: Abya Yala. [details]
    • Valladares , C., & Boelens, R. (2017). Extractivism and the rights of nature: Governmentality, ‘convenient communities’ and epistemic pacts in Ecuador. Environmental Politics, 26(6), 1015-1034. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2017.1338384 [details]
    • Verzijl, A., Hoogesteger, J., & Boelens, R. (2017). Grassroots Scalar Politics in the Peruvian Andes: Mobilising Allies to Defend Community Waters in the Upper Pampas Watershed. In D. Suhardiman, A. Nicol, & E. Mapedza (Eds.), Water Governance and Collective Action: Multi-scale Challenges (pp. 34-45). (Earthscan Water text series). London: Routledge. [details]
    • Zwarteveen, M. Z., & Boelens, R. (2017). Defining, researching and struggling for water justice: some conceptual building blocks for research and action. In R. Boelens, B. Crow, J. Hoogesteger, F. Lu, E. Swyngedouw, & J. Vos (Eds.), Hydrosocial Territories and Water Equity: Theory, Governance, and Sites of Struggle (pp. 8-23). (Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance). Routledge. [details]

    2016

    • Boelens, R., Hoogesteger, J., Swyngedouw, E., Vos, J., & Wester, P. (2016). Hydrosocial territories: A political ecology perspective. Water International, 41(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2016.1134898 [details]
    • Duarte-Abadía, B., & Boelens, R. (2016). Disputes over territorial boundaries and diverging valuation languages: The Santurban hydrosocial highlands territory in Colombia. Water International, 41(1), 15-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2016.1117271 [details]
    • Hommes, L., Boelens, R., & Maat, H. (2016). Contested hydrosocial territories and disputed water governance: Struggles and competing claims over the Ilisu Dam development in southeastern Turkey. Geoforum, 71, 9-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.02.015 [details]
    • Hoogesteger, J., Boelens, R., & Baud, M. (2016). Territorial pluralism: water users’ multi-scalar struggles against state ordering in Ecuador’s highlands. Water International, 41(1), 91-106. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2016.1130910 [details]
    • Mena-Vásconez, P., Boelens, R., & Vos, J. (2016). Food or flowers? Contested transformations of community food security and water use priorities under new legal and market regimes in Ecuador's highlands. Journal of Rural Studies, 44, 227-238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.02.011 [details]
    • Rocha, R., Vos, J., & Boelens, R. (2016). Territorios hidrosociales y valoración del agua: Perspectivas divergentes sobre los derechos de agua en la Cuenca Pucara, Bolivia. In B. Duarte-Abadía, C. Yacoub, & J. Hoogesteger (Eds.), Gobernanza del Agua: Una mirada desde la ecología política y la justicia hídrica (pp. 153-176). (Agua y Sociedad; No. 24). Quito: Abya Yala. [details]
    • Rodríguez de Francisco, J. C., & Boelens, R. (2016). Pago por servicios ambientales, ambientalismo de mercado, y la indiferencia hacia el mundo campesino. In B. Duarte Abadía, C. Yacoub, & J. Hoogesteger (Eds.), Gobernanza del Agua: Una mirada desde la ecología política y la justicia hídrica (pp. 109-132). (Agua y Sociedad; No. 24). Quito: Abya Yala. [details]
    • Rodríguez-de-Francisco, J. C., & Boelens, R. (2016). PES hydrosocial territories: De-territorialization and re-patterning of water control arenas in the Andean highlands. Water International, 41(1), 140-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2016.1129686 [details]
    • Stoltenborg, D., & Boelens, R. (2016). Disputes over land and water rights in gold mining: The case of Cerro de San Pedro, Mexico. Water International, 41(3), 447-467. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2016.1143202 [details]
    • Vos, J., & Boelens, R. A. (2016). The Politics and Consequences of Virtual Water Export. In P. Jackson, W. E. L. Spiess, & F. Sultana (Eds.), Eating, Drinking: Surviving: The International Year of Global Understanding - IYGU (pp. 31-41). (SpringerBriefs in Global Understanding). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42468-2_4 [details]
    • Yacoub, C., Vos, J., & Boelens, R. (2016). Territorios hidrosociales y minería en Cajamarca, Perú: Monitoreos ambientales como herramientas políticas. Agua y Territorio, 7, 163-175. https://doi.org/10.17561/at.v0i7.2971 [details]
    • Zeitoun, M., Lankford, B., Krueger, T., Forsyth, T., Carter, R., Hoekstra, A. Y., ... Matthews, N. (2016). Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges. Global Environmental Change, 39, 143-154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.04.010 [details]

    2015

    • Boelens, R. (2015). Water, Power and Identity: The Cultural Politics of Water in the Andes. Abindon, Oxon: Routledge. [details]
    • Boelens, R. (2015). Tradiciones de riego y transiciones políticas en los Andes. Iberoamericana, 15(58), 178-183. [details]
    • Boelens, R. (2015). Water rights. In K. Albala (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of food issues (pp. 1463-1470). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483346304.n453 [details]
    • Boelens, R., & Claudin, V. (2015). Rooted rights systems in turbulent waters: the dynamics of collective fishing rights in La Albufera, Valencia, Spain. Society & Natural Resources, 28(10), 1059-1074. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2015.1024370 [details]
    • Boelens, R., Hoogesteger, J., & Baud, M. (2015). Water reform governmentality in Ecuador: neoliberalism, centralization, and the restraining of polycentric authority and community rule-making. Geoforum, 64, 281-291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.07.005 [details]
    • Duarte, B., Boelens, R., & Yacoub, C. (2015). Hidroeléctricas: ¿energía limpia o destrucción socioecológica? In C. Yacoub, B. Duarte, & R. Boelens (Eds.), Agua y Ecología Política: El extractivismo en la agroexportación, la minería y las hidroeléctricas en Latinoamérica (pp. 199-203). Quito: Abya Yala. [details]
    • Duarte-Abadía, B., Boelens, R., & Roa-Avendaño, T. (2015). Hydropower, encroachment and the re-patterning of hydrosocial territory: the case of Hidrosogamoso in Colombia. Human Organization, 74(3), 243-254. https://doi.org/10.17730/0018-7259-74.3.243 [details]
    • Peña, F., Duarte, B., Yacoub, C., & Boelens, R. (2015). Agronegocios y concentración de agua en América Latina ¿alimentos, abundancia, desarrollo? In C. Yacoub, B. Duarte, & R. Boelens (Eds.), Agua y Ecología Política: El extractivismo en la agroexportación, la minería y las hidroeléctricas en Latinoamérica (pp. 33-43). Quito: Abya Yala. [details]
    • Rodriguez de Francisco, J. C., & Boelens, R. (2015). Payment for environmental services: mobilising an epistemic community to construct dominant policy. Environmental Politics, 24(3), 481-500. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2015.1014658 [details]
    • Roth, D., Boelens, R., & Zwarteveen, M. (2015). Property, legal pluralism, and water rights: the critical analysis of water governance and the politics of recognizing "local" rights. Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 47(3), 456-475. https://doi.org/10.1080/07329113.2015.1111502 [details]
    • Vos, J., & Boelens, R. (2015). Water in global agrifood chains. In K. Albala (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of food issues (pp. 1459-1463). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483346304.n452 [details]
    • Yacoub, C., Boelens, R., & Duarte, B. (2015). Empresas extractivas en Latinoamérica. In C. Yacoub, B. Duarte, & R. Boelens (Eds.), Agua y Ecología Política: El extractivismo en la agroexportación, la minería y las hidroeléctricas en Latinoamérica (pp. 117-124). Quito, Ecuador: Abya Yala. [details]

    2014

    2005

    • Boelens, R., & Zwarteveen, M. (2005). Anomalous water rights and the politics of normalization: Collective water control and privatization policies in the andean region. In Liquid Relations: Contested Water Rights and Legal Complexity (pp. 97-123). Rutgers University Press.
    • Boelens, R., & Zwarteveen, M. (2005). Prices and politics in andean water reforms. Development and Change, 36(4), 735-758. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0012-155X.2005.00432.x
    • Boelens, R., Zwarteveen, M., & Roth, D. (2005). Legal complexity in the analysis of water rights and water resources management. In Liquid Relations: Contested Water Rights and Legal Complexity (pp. 1-20). Rutgers University Press.
    • Roth, D., Boelens, R., & Zwarteveen, M. (Eds.) (2005). Liquid relations: Contested water rights and legal complexity. Rutgers University Press.
    • Zwarteveen, M., Roth, D., & Boelens, R. (2005). Water rights and legal pluralism: Beyond analysis and recognition. In Liquid Relations: Contested Water Rights and Legal Complexity (pp. 254-268). Rutgers University Press.

    2003

    • Boelens, R., & Zwarteveen, M. (2003). The politics of Andean water policy reforms: Local and indigenous rights in the context of privatization policies. Journal fur Entwicklungspolitik, 19(4), 56-76. https://doi.org/10.20446/JEP-2414-3197-19-4-56

    2022

    • Venot, J-P., Vos, J., Molle, F., Zwarteveen, M., Veldwisch, G. J., Kuper, M., Mdee, A., Ertsen, M., Boelens, R., Cleaver, F., Lankford, B., Swatuk, L., Linton, J., Harris, L. M., Kemerink-Seyoum, J., Kooy, M., & Schwartz, K. (2022). A bridge over troubled waters. Nature Sustainability, 5(2), 92. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00835-y [details]

    2021

    • 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. Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 53(3), 458-476. https://doi.org/10.1080/07329113.2021.2012376 [details]

    2018

    • Melsen, L. A., Vos, J., & Boelens, R. (2018). What is the role of the model in socio-hydrology? Discussion of “Prediction in a socio-hydrological world”*. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 63(9), 1435-1443. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2018.1499025 [details]
    • Perreault, T., Boelens, R., & Vos, J. (2018). Conclusions: struggles for justice in a changing water world. In R. Boelens, T. Perreault, & J. Vos (Eds.), Water Justice (pp. 346-360). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847.023 [details]
    • Perreault, T., Boelens, R., & Vos, J. (2018). Introduction: Re-politicizing water allocation. In R. Boelens, T. Perreault, & J. Vos (Eds.), Water Justice (pp. 34-42). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847.002 [details]
    • Vos, J., & Boelens, R. (2018). Neoliberal water governmentalities, virtual water trade, and contestations. In R. Boelens, T. Perreault, & J. Vos (Eds.), Water Justice (pp. 283-301). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847.019 [details]
    • Vos, J., Perreault, T., & Boelens, R. (2018). Introduction: Exclusion and Struggles for Co-decision. In R. Boelens, T. Perreault, & J. Vos (Eds.), Water Justice (pp. 188-192). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847.012 [details]

    2017

    • Boelens, R., Crow, B., Hoogesteger, J., Lu, F., Swyngedouw, E., & Vos, J. (Eds.) (2017). Hydrosocial Territories and Water Equity: Theory, Governance, and Sites of Struggle. (Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance). Routledge. [details]

    2016

    • Boelens, R. (2016). Foreword: Divergent Water Securities and the Politics of Formalization. In M. Seemann (Ed.), Water Security, Justice and the Politics of Water Rights in Peru and Bolivia (pp. vii-x). (Environment, Politics and Social Change). Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137545237 [details]

    2015

    • Boelens, R., Damonte, G., Seemann, M., Duarte, B., & Yacoub, C. (2015). Despojo del agua en Latinoamérica: introducción a la ecología política del agua en los agronegocios, la minería y las hidroeléctricas. In C. Yacoub, B. Duarte, & R. Boelens (Eds.), Agua y Ecología Política: El extractivismo en la agroexportación, la minería y las hidroeléctricas en Latinoamérica (pp. 11-29). Quito: Abya Yala. [details]
    • Yacoub, C., Duarte, B., & Boelens, R. (Eds.) (2015). Agua y Ecología Política: El extractivismo en la agroexportación, la minería y las hidroeléctricas en Latinoamérica. Quito: Abya Yala. [details]

    2014

    • Boelens, R., Hoogesteger, J., & Rodriguez de Francisco, J. C. (2014). Commoditizing water territories? The clash between Andean water rights cultures and payment for environmental service policies. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 25(3), 84-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2013.876867 [details]

    2018

    • Ypeij, A. (Author), Hogenboom, B. (Author), Klaufus, C. (Author), de Castro, F. (Author), Koonings, K. (Author), Baud, M. (Author), & Boelens, R. (Author). (2018). Xela stories of transformation: A commons perspectives on (peri-)urban resource use, territoriality, and cultural representation. Web publication/site, CEDLA-UvA. http://www.cedla.uva.nl/40_events/2018/Xela_blog1.html [details]

    2015

    • Boelens, R. (2015). Water justice in Latin America: the politics of difference, equality, and indifference. Amsterdam: CEDLA, University of Amsterdam. [details]

    2021

    • Duarte Abadia, B. A. (2021). Imaginarios hidrosociales, utopías contestadas y luchas territoriales en Colombia y España. [details]
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