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Setting the Research Agenda Critical Hydropolitics
Rooted in social science methods and theories, researchers with the Geneva Water Hub explore a range of topics related to water diplomacy, water sharing in transboundary and local settings, water justice, and the politics of water and land governance. We are particularly known for our pioneering work on water conflict transformation, for critical discourse analysis of hydropolitics, for critical perspectives on water infrastructure, and for the integration of variables such as power and politics in structuring water governance outcomes.

2024                                                                                                                                      

  • Abbara, A., Shomar, R. A., Daoudy, M., Sittah, G. A., Zaman, M. H., & Zeitoun, M. (2024). Water, health, and peace: a call for interdisciplinary research. The Lancet, 403(10435), 1427-1429. [↓]
  • Bréthaut, C., Vij, S., Mulhauser, G., Nayemi, S., Marsac, G., & Fauvain, H. (2024).Policy instruments for governing water in cross-border metropolitan areas, the case of Greater Geneva. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 26(2), 218-231. [↓]
  • Bréthaut, C., & Rodriguez Echavarria, T. (2024). The role of third parties in shaping transboundary cooperation of the Sixaola river basin (Costa Rica and Panama): an analysis through States’ involvement, technocratic turn, and reterritorialization. Frontiers in Water, 6, 1369002. [↓]
  • Tignino, M., & Jara, D. (2024). Human rights law in the development of hydropower projects in transboundary context. Frontiers in Climate, 6, 1280239. [↓]
  • Vallet, C., Bréthaut, C., & Lussault, M. (2024). The Legal Personhood as an Instrumental Tool for Reforming the Governance of the Rhône River. Water, 16(21), 3131. [↓]

2023

  • Zeitoun, M., Kayal, N., Vij, S., Türk, D., & Cullman, J. (2023). Why negotiate water problems when we can deliberate water solutions? Nature Water, 1(4), 306-307. [↓]

  • Haemmerli, H., Bréthaut, C., & Ezbakhe, F. (2023). Exploring friendship in hydropolitics: The case of the friendship dam on the Asi/Orontes River. Environmental Policy and Governance. [↓]

  • Turley, L. (2023). Securing urban water supply through reservoir reoperation–An analysis of power resources and equity in cases from India, Spain and the USA. PLOS Water, 2(8), e0000097. [↓]

  • Zeitoun, M. (2023). Reflections: Understanding Our Use and Abuse of Water. Oxford University Press. [↓]

2022

  • Bréthaut, C., Ezbakhe, F., McCracken, M., Wolf, A., & Dalton, J. (2022). Exploring discursive hydropolitics: A conceptual framework and research agenda. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 38(3), 464-479. [↓]

  • Turley, L., Bréthaut, C., & Pflieger, G. (2022). Institutions for reoperating reservoirs in semi-arid regions facing climate change and competing societal water demands: insights from Colorado. Water International, 47(1), 30-54. [↓]

2021

  • Turley, L. (2021). From power to legitimacy—Explaining historical and contemporary water conflict at Yesa reservoir (Spain) and gross reservoir (USA) using path dependency. Sustainability, 13(16), 9305. [↓]

2020

  • Zeitoun, M., Mirumachi, N., Warner, J., Kirkegaard, M., & Cascão, A. (2020). Analysis for water conflict transformation. Water International, 45(4), 365-384. [↓]

2019

  • Zeitoun, M., Abdallah, C., Dajani, M., Khresat, S. E., Elaydi, H., & Alfarra, A. (2019). The Yarmouk tributary to the Jordan River I: Agreements impeding equitable transboundary water arrangements. Water Alternatives, 12(3), 1064-1094. [↓]

  • Zeitoun, M., Dajani, M., Abdallah, C., Khresat, S. E., & Elaydi, H. (2019). The Yarmouk tributary to the Jordan River II: Infrastructure impeding the transformation of equitable transboundary water arrangements. Water Alternatives, 12(3), 1095-1122. [↓]