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J. Godinez Madrigal
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Water conflicts open windows of opportunity for grassroots movements to transform water systems. However, academic fields studying social movements in socio-environmental conflicts are not well equipped to deal with complexity, non-linear dynamics, and emergent properties. Theref
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The limits to large-scale supply augmentation
Exploring the crossroads of conflicting urban water system development pathways
Managers of urban water systems constantly make decisions to guarantee water services by overcoming problems related to supply–demand imbalances. A preferred strategy has been supply augmentation through hydraulic infrastructure development. However, despite considerable investme
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Paradigm Lost
On the Value of Lost Causes in Transforming Cities and Water Systems’ Development Pathways
In the last decades, thousands of socio-environmental conflicts have spawned, especially at the sub-national scale. Among these, water conflicts are especially complex and multifaceted, since most are driven by a combination of socio-economic dynamics that increase pressure on na
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Unraveling intractable water conflicts
The entanglement of science and politics in decision-making on large hydraulic infrastructure
The development of large infrastructure to address the water challenges of cities around the world can be a financial and social burden for many cities because of the hidden costs these works entail and social conflicts they often trigger. When conflicts erupt, science is often e
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