Water governance

Secure and legitimate access to water is key to survival and prosperity, but the existing global, national and local water governance framework leaves much to be desired. How do we ensure access to water for all?

Research and activites

DIIS Working Paper

2021

Nature-based solutions to development and climate change challenges

Understanding ecosystem-based adaptation approaches
Journal Article

2021

Environmental governance on the street

Towards an expanded research agenda on street-level bureaucrats
DIIS Working Paper

2021

Establishing the empirical basis for tracing the development outcomes of agricultural investments

A methodological framework
DIIS Comment

2021

Explained: What is climate change adaptation?
Long Read

2 March 2021

What makes a climate migrant?

In the wake of climate change come stories of waves of climate migrants. However, these stories miss the complexity that lies behind migration itself, a complexity that cannot be overlooked if we are to address the impacts and many consequences of intensifying climate change.
DIIS Policy Brief

2021

When jihadists broker peace

natural resource conflicts as weapons of war in Mali’s protracted crisis
Journal Article

2020

Declining significance of neoliberalism?

New article analyses neoliberalism’s influence on international norms
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Book Chapter

2020

Taking stock of maritime insecurity

A new book chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Peace, Security and Development discusses how maritime security has been conceptualized and how the research field of maritime security has evolved in recent decades
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Journal Article

2020

A historical, scaled approach to climate change adaptation

the case of Vietnam
DIIS Working Paper

2020

Governing large-scale land-based investments

A review of the literature on the emerging global rights-based framework
Book Chapter

2019

Environmental governance at the frontline of the state

New book chapter on civil servants and everyday natural resource governance
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Activity

30 July 2019

Agency in a changing world of development

DIIS researchers zoom in on the role of and room for agency in changing development landscape
DIIS Working Paper

2019

Shift in attention from international to domestic investors in Africa

Towards a typology of domestic land-based investors
DIIS Policy Brief

2017

How climate resettlement can work for communities

Climate change and Planned Relocation
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Presentation

29 June 2017

Sustaining peace in natural resource conflicts

DIIS researchers present recent evidence at FAO seminar
Journal Article

2016

Water rights formalisation introduces a new dimension of inequality

Securing rights or legitimizing dispossession?
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21 September 2016

AIDA research team is complete

Four new PhD candidates join the AIDA team in Tanzania and Uganda
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27 May 2016

Progress & challenges for the Nicaraguan water governance reform

Research results presented and discussed with Nicaraguan policy makers
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Bestyrelse

22 September 2015

Research Council of Norway reappoints Helle Munk Ravnborg as Chair of Programme Board

Latin America Research Programme Board reappointed until June 30, 2018
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Journal Article

2015

Inequality - also - matters to the quality of governance of natural resources

New research results from Nicaragua published in World Development
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Seminar

2 June 2015

How will the world pay for the next round of development goals?

Seminar on the upcoming Financing for Development conference in Addis Ababa
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Resultater

29 May 2015

New project examines water governance reform in Nicaragua and Ecuador

Initial results presented at the World Water Congress in Edinburgh
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Book Chapter

2015

Food security and water governance are deeply intertwined

- and challenged by local and global inequality
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12 November 2014

Natural resource conflicts and the role of religion

Experience from Myanmar and Tanzania
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30 September 2014

Competing for water: The challenge of local water governance

Despite its crucial importance, local water governance institutions are often grossly neglected in the implementation of reforms intended

Journal Article

2012

The water governance challenge

the discrepancy between what is and what should be

Helle Munk Ravnborg

Water science and technology: water supply, 12

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Book Chapter

2012

Coping with poverty and institutionalized practices

tank-irrigated cultivation in Kolar-District, Karnataka

Lars Engberg-Pedersen

The byways of the poor. Museum Tusculanum Press
Journal Article

2012

Strategies of the poorest in local water conflict and cooperation

evidence from Zambia, Vietnam and Bolivia

Mikkel Funder, Rocío Bustamante, Vladimir Cossio, Huong Thi Mai Pham, Barbara Van Koppen, Carol Emma Mweemba, Imasiku Nyambe, Phuong Thi Thanh Le & Thomas Skielboe

Water alternatives, 5

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DIIS Working Paper

2012

Pigs, prawns and power houses

politics in water resources management

Rane Baadsgaard Lange & Jens Christian Refsgaard

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Journal Article

2012

Challenges of local water governance

the extent, nature and intensity of local water-related conflict and cooperation

Helle Munk Ravnborg, Rocío Bustamante, Abdoulaye O. Cissé, Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde, Vladimir Cossio, Moussa Djiré, Mikkel Funder, Ligia Ivette Gómez, Phuong Thi Thanh Le, Carol Emma Mweemba, Imasiku Nyambe, Tania Paz, Huong Thi Mai Pham, Roberto Rivas

Water policy, 14

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DIIS Working Paper

2011

Coping with poverty and institutionalised practices

tank-irrigated cultivation in Kolar District, Karnataka

Lars Engberg-Pedersen

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Working papers etc.

2011

Power, inequality, and water governance

the role of third party involvement in water-related conflict and cooperation

Ligia Ivette Gómez & Helle Munk Ravnborg

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DIIS Working Paper

2011

Poverty and access to water and water governance institutions in Con Cuong district, Nghe An Province, Vietnam

report on the results from a household questionnaire survey

Huong Thi Mai Pham, Phuong Thi Thanh Le, Thomas Skielboe, Helle Munk Ravnborg & Danish Institute for International Studies

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DIIS Working Paper

2011

Poverty and access to water in Namwala District, Zambia

report on the results from a household questionnaire survey, Zambia

Carol Emma Mweemba, Mikkel Funder, Imasiku Nyambe & Barbara Van Koppen

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DIIS Working Paper

2010

Conflict and cooperation in local water governance

inventory of local water-related events in Douentza District, Mali

Moussa Djiré, Abdoulaye O. Cissé, Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde, Amadou Keita & Anna Traoré

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DIIS Working Paper

2010

Conflict and cooperation in local water governance

inventory of local water-related events in Namwala District, Zambia

Carol Emma Mweemba, Imasiku Nyambe, Mikkel Funder & Barbara Van Koppen

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Journal Article

2010

Understanding local water conflict and cooperation

the case of Namwala District, Zambia

Mikkel Funder, Carol Emma Mweemba, Imasiku Nyambe, Barbara Van Koppen & Helle Munk Ravnborg

Physics and chemistry of the earth, 35

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Journal Article

2009

Agricultural water management and poverty linkages

Regassa E. Namara, Munir A. Hanjra, Gina E. Castillo, Helle Munk Ravnborg, Lawrence Smith & Barbara Van Koppen

Agricultural Water Management, 97

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DIIS Working Paper

2007

Access to water and payment for environmental services, Jequetepeque watershed, Peru

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Journal Article

2006

Water management and the poor

issues and scales of action

Helle Munk Ravnborg

Water international, 31

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DIIS Working Paper

2004

From water 'wars' to water 'riots'?

lessons from transboundary water management: Proceedings of The International Conference, December 2003, DIIS, Copenhagen

Helle Munk Ravnborg

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DIIS Report

2004

Addressing water conflicts

governance, institutions and functions

Mikkel Funder & Helle Munk Ravnborg

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DIIS Report

2004

Water and conflict

conflict prevention and mitigation in water resources management

Helle Munk Ravnborg

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Experts

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Helle Munk Ravnborg

Sustainable development and governance

Senior Researcher

+4525471657

hmr@diis.dk
Mikkel Funder

Sustainable development and governance

Senior Researcher

+45 3269 8697

mfu@diis.dk
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Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde

Migration and global order

Senior Researcher

smr@diis.dk