Water Governance and Infrastructure

External reference: https://openalex.org/T12248

  1. Knowledge can both politicize and depoliticize environmental conflicts
    Analysis of knowledge mobilization in environmental conflicts showing that expert and grassroots knowledge both politicize and depoliticize issues in complex, contingent ways.
  2. Civic Data at the Seams
    Civic data projects depend on managing seams—misalignments between institutions and stakeholders. Research on heat island mapping reveals how these boundaries require continuous maintenance and.
  3. Localized Imaginaries, Global Assets: Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Assetization of Data Centers in Singapore
    Study examines how Singapore's state and industry actors adapt global data center standards to local constraints and reposition infrastructure as financialized assets within its digital economy.
  4. Arts-based research may enrich hydrogeology engagement
    Perspective proposing integration of arts-based research methods into hydrogeology to strengthen community engagement and cultural understanding of groundwater challenges.
  5. What is groundwater?
    Examines how groundwater shifted from participatory knowledge to abstracted resource in Western thought, suggesting metaphysical reorientation could improve water crisis responses.
  6. Women-led movements combine culture, science, and law to protect rivers
    Women-led movements in Quito combine cultural engagement, scientific evidence, and legal action to protect contaminated rivers under Ecuador's Rights of Nature paradigm.
  7. The essay argues crisis urbanism is persistent yet progress remains possible
    Critical examination of crisis urbanism as structural feature of contemporary urbanization, analyzing personal-planetary dialectics and historical continuities in urban crises.
  8. Groundwater planning should integrate hydrogeology and water justice
    Framework integrating hydrogeology and water justice theory for equitable groundwater management planning under climate change and extraction pressures.
  9. Matatu access conflicts with Nairobi Expressway infrastructure
    Study examines tensions between Nairobi's matatu informal transport and Chinese-backed Expressway, revealing how foreign infrastructure reshapes mobility and excludes indigenous systems.
  10. Socio-natural resilience reshapes hydrosocial territories in Yangtze governance
    Examine governance transformations in China's Yangtze River through socio-natural resilience and hydrosocial territory analysis, revealing how power dynamics shape water management.
  11. Preventive maintenance reduces rural water point downtime
    Markov decision process optimization of communal water pump maintenance in rural sub-Saharan Africa demonstrates 41% average downtime reduction through preventive maintenance integration.
  12. Clean energy use rose, but major barriers remain
    Examines clean energy adoption barriers in low-income and middle-income countries, revealing that access metrics overlook affordability, reliability, and actual usage patterns critical to energy.
  13. Examining Sponge City coverage and perceptions in global news media
    Analysis of 786 news articles reveals media alignment with academic research on China's Sponge City Program functions and challenges, but identifies gaps in technical nuance.
  14. Crayfish trade in Kenya links foodways, race, and ecology
    Examines how Louisiana crayfish became valued food commodity among Chinese workers in Kenya, revealing intersections of ecology, race, and culinary politics at Lake Naivasha.