Prof. dr. ir. M.Z. (Margreet) Zwarteveen
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
GPIO : Governance and Inclusive Development
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
- Room number: B4.05
Postal address
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Postbus 15629
1001 NC Amsterdam
Contact details
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Publications
- refereed (114)
- academic (7)
- professional (3)
- popular scientific (1)
- recognitions (6)
- supervised theses (7)
2025
Acevedo-Guerrero, T., Bossenbroek, L., Leonardelli, I., Zwarteveen, M., & Kulkarni, S. (2025). Concluding reflections - future directions for feminist water research. In T. Acevedo-Guerrero, L. Bossenbroek, I. Leonardelli, M. Zwarteveen, & S. Kulkarni (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Gender and Water Governance (pp. 414-417). (Routledge environment and sustainability handbooks). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003100379-35 [details]- Acevedo-Guerrero, T., Bossenbroek, L., Leonardelli, I., Zwarteveen, M., & Kulkarni, S. (Eds.) (2025). Routledge handbook of gender and water governance. (Routledge environment and sustainability handbooks). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003100379 [details]
- Alba, R., ter Horst, R., Tran, B. N., Klein, A., Unverzagt, K., Godinez-Madrigal, J., Verzijl, A., Rusca, M., Vos, J., Venot, J.-P., Zwarteveen, M., & Krueger, T. (2025). Situating Hydrological Modeling: A Proposal for Engaging With the Power of Models. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 12(4), Article e70030. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.70030 [details]
- Belland, M., Kausan, B. Y., Kooy, M., & Zwarteveen, M. (2025). Seeing like a pond: Amphibious stories of coastal subsidence in Central Java. Geoforum, 161, Article 104248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2025.104248 [details]
- Biza, A., Rusca, M., Kooy, M., & Zwarteveen, M. (2025). Sanitary civility: sanitation and urban co-existence in Maputo City, Mozambique. Environment and Urbanization, 37(1), 244-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478251317972 [details]
- Bossenbroek, L., & Zwarteveen, M. (2025). New spaces for water justice? Groundwater extraction and changing gendered subjectivities in Morocco's Saïss region. In T. Acevedo-Guerrero, L. Bossenbroek, I. Leonardelli, M. Zwarteveen, & S. Kulkarni (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Gender and Water Governance (pp. 176-190). (Routledge environment and sustainability handbooks). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003100379-16 [details]
- Silva, R. H., van der Meulen, G. J. M., Zwarteveen, M. Z., Stead, D., van Dorst, M. J., & Bacchin, T. K. (2025). Promises and perils of water sensitivity as a new hydro-social imaginary for Kozhikode, India. Environmental Science and Policy, 164, Article 103985. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.103985 [details]
2024
- Archidiacono, S., Kemerink-Seyoum, J. S., Leonardelli, I., Dominguez Guzman, C., Chitata, T., & Zwarteveen, M. (2024). Engineering as Tinkering Care: A Rainwater Harvesting Infrastructure in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Engineering Studies, 16(3), 206-225. https://doi.org/10.1080/19378629.2024.2304176 [details]
- Belland, M., Kooy, M., & Zwarteveen, M. (2024). Destabilizing the science of soils: Geoscientists as spokespersons for land subsidence in Semarang, Indonesia. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7(2), 882-903. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231184064 [details]
- Haeffner, M., Lave, R., Linton, J., Mukherjee, J., Ndiritu, J., Pacheco-Vega, R., Rusca, M., & Zwarteveen, M. (2024). Innovating a new knowledge base for water justice studies: hydrosocial, sociohydrology, and beyond. Frontiers in Water, 6, Article 1389030. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2024.1389030 [details]
- Reyes Tejada, N., Kooy, M., & Zwarteveen, M. (2024). Farming and the city: the changing imaginary of the city and Maputo’s irrigated urban agriculture from 1960 to 2020. Water International, 49(2), 185-200. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2024.2324577 [details]
- Silva, R. H., Zwarteveen, M., Stead, D., & Bacchin, T. K. (2024). Bringing Ecological Urbanism and Urban Political Ecology to transformative visions of water sensitivity in cities. Cities, 145, Article 104685. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104685 [details]
- Zwarteveen, M., Domínguez-Guzmán, C., Kuper, M., Saidani, A., Kemerink-Seyoum, J., Cleaver, F., Kulkarni, H., Bossenbroek, L., Ftouhi, H., Verzijl, A., Aslekar, U., Kadiri, Z., Chitata, T., Leonardelli, I., Kulkarni, S., & Bhat, S. (2024). Caring for Groundwater: How Care Can Expand and Transform Groundwater Governance. International Journal of the Commons, 18(1), 384-396. https://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1350 [details]
2023
- Batubara, B., Kooy, M., & Zwarteveen, M. (2023). Politicising land subsidence in Jakarta: How land subsidence is the outcome of uneven sociospatial and socionatural processes of capitalist urbanization. Geoforum, 139, Article 103689. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103689 [details]
- Batubara, B., Kooy, M., Van Leynseele, Y., Zwarteveen, M., & Ujianto, A. (2023). Urbanization in (post-) New Order Indonesia: connecting unevenness in the city with that in the countryside. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 50(3), 1207-1226. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2021.2000399 [details]
- Bhat, S., Kulkarni, S., Deshmukh, R., Bhopal, S., Zwarteveen, M., & Sumbre, S. (2023). Conjunctive Use of Canal Water and Groundwater: An Analysis Based on Farmers’ Practices in Ravangaon, Maharashtra. Water Alternatives, 16(1), 65-86. https://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol16/v16issue1/696-a16-1-13 [details]
- Choukrani, H., Lacombe, G., Zwarteveen, M., Kuper, M., Taky, A., & Hammani, A. (2023). Sense-making and shaping of temporary wetlands: A socio-hydrological analysis of dichotomous ontologies of merjas in Morocco. Journal of Hydrology, 627(B), Article 130434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130434 [details]
- Domínguez-Guzmán, C., Zwarteveen, M., & Kuper, M. (2023). Transformation as Practice: Learning From Everyday Dealings With Groundwater. Water Alternatives, 16(1), 1-12. https://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol16/v16issue1/697-a16-1-14 [details]
- Leonardelli, I., Kemerink-Seyoum, J., & Zwarteveen, M. (2023). Obliqueness as a feminist mode of analysing waterscapes: Learning to think with overflows. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 6(2), 863-879. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221117725 [details]
- Leonardelli, I., Kemerink-Seyoum, J., Kulkarni, S., Bhat, S., & Zwarteveen, M. (2023). A Feminist Analysis of Women Farmers Navigating Groundwater Qualities in Maharashtra, India. Water Alternatives, 16(1), 134-152. https://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol16/v16issue1/692-a16-1-9 [details]
- Sehring, J., ter Horst, R., & Zwarteveen, M. (2023). (En-)gendering Water Diplomacy. In J. Sehring, R. ter Horst, & M. Zwarteveen (Eds.), Gender Dynamics in Transboundary Water Governance: Feminist Perspectives on Water Conflict and Cooperation (pp. 1-19). (Earthscan studies in water resource management). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003198918-1 [details]
- Sehring, J., ter Horst, R., & Zwarteveen, M. (Eds.) (2023). Gender Dynamics in Transboundary Water Governance: Feminist Perspectives on Water Conflict and Cooperation. (Earthscan studies in water resource management). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003198918 [details]
- Verzijl, A., Vivek M., Prayag, A., Srinivasan, V., Domínguez-Guzmán, C., & Zwarteveen, M. (2023). From Divine to Design: Unearthing Groundwater Practices in Tamil Nadu, India. Water Alternatives, 16(1), 153-170. https://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol16/v16issue1/695-a16-1-12 [details]
- Zwarteveen, M. (2023). Feminist contributions to water and development scholarship. In S. Hellberg, F. Söderbaum, A. Swain, & J. Öjendal (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Water and Development (pp. 61-70). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003095545-7 [details]
- ter Horst, R., Zwarteveen, M., & Sehring, J. (2023). Conclusion: Insights on Gender Dynamics in Transboundary Water Governance. In J. Sehring, R. ter Horst, & M. Zwarteveen (Eds.), Gender Dynamics in Transboundary Water Governance: Feminist Perspectives on Water Conflict and Cooperation (pp. 193-203). (Earthscan studies in water resource management). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003198918-15 [details]
2022
- Biza, A., Kooy, M., Manuel, S., & Zwarteveen, M. (2022). Sanitary governmentalities: Producing and naturalizing social differentiation in Maputo City, Mozambique (1887–2017). Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(2), 605-624. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848621996583 [details]
- Boakye-Ansah, A. S., Schwartz, K., & Zwarteveen, M. (2022). Service differentiation as an improvement strategy for access to water in urban low-income areas: evidence from three Kenyan cities: Evidence from three Kenyan cities. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 38(5), 766-782. https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2021.1921708 [details]
- Dominguez-Guzman, C., Verzijl, A., Zwarteveen, M., & Mol, A. (2022). Caring for water in Northern Peru: On fragile infrastructures and the diverse work involved in irrigation. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(4), 2153-2171. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211052216 [details]
- Hasan, S., Evers, J., & Zwarteveen, M. (2022). The Work That Goes Into Policy Transfer: Making the Dutch Delta Approach Travel. Water Alternatives, 15(1), 56-72. https://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol15/v15issue1/653-a15-1-4 [details]
2021
- Hasan, S., Evers, J., Verzijl, A., & Zwarteveen, M. (2021). Deltas in dialogue: Imagining policy transfer from the Netherlands to Vietnam and Bangladesh as a symmetrical conversation. WIREs. Water, 8(6), Article e1559. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1559 [details]
- Leonardelli, I., Bossenbroek, L., Ftouhi, H., Kadiri, Z., Bhat, S., Kulkarni, S., Hamamouche, M. F., Saidani, M. A., Zwarteveen, M., & Kemerink-Seyoum, J. S. (2021). COVID-19 in Rural India, Algeria, and Morocco: A Feminist Analysis of Small-Scale Farmers' and Agricultural Laborers' Experiences and Inventive Practices. Frontiers in Human Dynamics , 3, Article 653979. https://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2021.653979
- Zwarteveen, M., Kuper, M., Olmos-Herrera, C., Dajani, M., Kemerink-Seyoum, J., Frances, C., Beckett, L., Lu, F., Kulkarni, S., Kulkarni, H., Aslekar, U., Börjeson, L., Verzijl, A., Dominguez Guzmán, C., Oré, M. T., Leonardelli, I., Bossenbroek, L., Ftouhi, H., Chitata, T., ... De Bont, C. (2021). Transformations to groundwater sustainability: from individuals and pumps to communities and aquifers. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 49, 88-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.03.004 [details]
2020
- Boakye-Ansah, A. S., Schwartz, K., & Zwarteveen, M. (2020). Aligning stakeholder interests: How ‘appropriate’ technologies have become the accepted water infrastructure solutions for low-income areas. Utilities Policy, 66, Article 101081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2020.101081 [details]
- Budds, J., & Zwarteveen, M. (2020). Retheorizing ecosystem services as cultural landscapes: Co-constitution, power relations, and knowledges. International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, 16(1), 41-59. https://doi.org/10.18848/1832-2077/CGP/v16i01/41-59 [details]
- Hasan, S., Evers, J., & Zwarteveen, M. (2020). The transfer of Dutch Delta Planning expertise to Bangladesh: A process of policy translation. Environmental Science & Policy, 104, 161-173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.11.001 [details]
- Lankford, B., Closas, A., Dalton, J., López Gunn, E., Hess, T., Knox, J. W., van der Kooij, S., Lautze, J., Molden, D., Orr, S., Pittock, J., Richter, B., Riddell, P. J., Scott, C. A., Venot, J.-P., Vos, J., & Zwarteveen, M. (2020). A scale-based framework to understand the promises, pitfalls and paradoxes of irrigation efficiency to meet major water challenges. Global Environmental Change, 65, Article 102182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102182 [details]
2019
- Anderson, E. P., Jackson, S., Tharme, R. E., Douglas, M., Flotemersch, J. E., Zwarteveen, M., Lokgariwar, C., Montoya, M., Wali, A., Tipa, G. T., Jardine, T. D., Olden, J. D., Cheng, L., Conallin, J., Cosens, B., Dickens, C., Garrick, D., Groenfeldt, D., Kabogo, J., ... Arthington, A. H. (2019). Understanding rivers and their social relations: A critical step to advance environmental water management. WIREs. Water, 6(6), Article e1381. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1381 [details]
- Boakye-Ansah, A. S., Schwartz, K., & Zwarteveen, M. (2019). From Rowdy Cartels to Organized Ones? The Transfer of Power in Urban Water Supply in Kenya. European Journal of Development Research, 31(5), 1246-1262. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-019-00209-3 [details]
- Boakye-Ansah, A. S., Schwartz, K., & Zwarteveen, M. (2019). Unravelling pro-poor water services: what does it mean and why is it so popular? Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 9(2), 187-197. https://doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2019.086 [details]
- Ferdous, R., Wesselink, A., Brandimarte, L., Slager, K., Zwarteveen, M., & Di Baldassarre, G. (2019). The Costs of Living with Floods in the Jamuna Floodplain in Bangladesh. Water, 11(6), Article 1238. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11061238 [details]
- Hasan, S., Evers, J., Zegwaard, A., & Zwarteveen, M. (2019). Making waves in the Mekong Delta: recognizing the work and the actors behind the transfer of Dutch delta planning expertise. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 62(9), 1583-1602. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2019.1592745 [details]
- Kemerink-Seyoum, J. S., Chitata, T., Domínguez Guzmán, C., Silva-Novoa Sanchez, L. M., & Zwarteveen, M. Z. (2019). Attention to Sociotechnical Tinkering with Irrigation Infrastructure as a Way to Rethink Water Governance. Water (Switzerland), 11(8), Article 1670. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11081670 [details]
- Silva-Novoa Sanchez, L. M., Kemerink-Seyoum, J. S., & Zwarteveen, M. (2019). Water Infrastructure Always In-the-Making: Distributing Water and Authority through the Water Supply Network in Moamba, Mozambique. Water (Switzerland), 11(9), Article 1926. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11091926 [details]
- Zegwaard, A., Zwarteveen, M., van Halsema, G., & Petersen, A. (2019). Sameness and difference in delta planning. Environmental Science & Policy, 94, 237-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.01.011 [details]
- Zwarteveen, M. (2019). Seeing Women and Questioning Gender in Water Management. In A. Prakash, S. Singh, C. G. Goodrich, & S. Janakarajan (Eds.), Water Resources Policies in South Asia (pbk ed., pp. 38-65). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367818487-4 [details]
2018
- Batubara, B., Kooy, M., & Zwarteveen, M. (2018). Uneven Urbanisation: Connecting Flows of Water to Flows of Labour and Capital Through Jakarta's Flood Infrastructure. Antipode, 50(5), 1186-1205. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12401 [details]
- Bossenbroek, L., & Zwarteveen, M. (2018). New spaces for water justice? Groundwater extraction and changing gendered subjectivities in Morocco’s Saïss region. In R. Boelens, T. Perreault, & J. Vos (Eds.), Water Justice (pp. 330-345). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847.022 [details]
- Ferdous, M. R., Wesselink, A., Brandimarte, L., Slager, K., Zwarteveen, M., & Di Baldassarre, G. (2018). Socio-hydrological spaces in the Jamuna River floodplain in Bangladesh. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22(10), 5159-5173. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-5159-2018 [details]
- Roth, D., Zwarteveen, M., Joy, K. J., & Kulkarni, S. (2018). Water governance as a question of justice: Politics, rights, and representation. In R. Boelens, T. Perreault, & J. Vos (Eds.), Water Justice (pp. 43-58). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316831847.003
- Tiwale, S., Rusca, M., & Zwarteveen, M. (2018). The Power of Pipes: Mapping Urban Water Inequities through the Material Properties of Networked Water Infrastructures - The Case of Lilongwe, Malawi. Water Alternatives, 11(2), 314-335. https://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol11/v11issue2/439-a11-2-6 [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]
2017
- Ahlers, R., Zwarteveen, M., & Bakker, K. (2017). Large Dam Development: From Trojan Horse to Pandora’s Box. In B. Flyvbjerg (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management (pp. 556-576). (Oxford Handbooks). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198732242.013.27 [details]
- Alda-Vidal, C., Rusca, M., Zwarteveen, M., Schwartz, K., & Pouw, N. (2017). Occupational genders and gendered occupations: The case of water provisioning in Maputo, Mozambique. Gender, Place and Culture, 24(7), 974-990. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2017.1339019 [details]
- Bossenbroek, L., Kuper, M., & Zwarteveen, M. (2017). Sour grapes: multiple groundwater enclosures in Morocco’s Saïs region. In J.-P. Venot, M. Kuper, & M. Zwarteveen (Eds.), Drip Irrigation for Agriculture: Untold Stories of Efficiency, Innovation and Development (pp. 105-121). (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315537146-7 [details]
- Domínguez Guzmán, C., Verzijl, A., & Zwarteveen, M. (2017). Water Footprints and ‘Pozas’: Conversations about Practices and Knowledges ofWater Efficiency. Water, 9(1), Article 16. https://doi.org/10.3390/w9010016 [details]
- Kuper, M., Benouniche, M., Naouri, M., & Zwarteveen, M. (2017). ‘Bricolage’ as an everyday practice of contestation of smallholders engaging with drip irrigation. In J.-P. Venot, M. Kuper, & M. Zwarteveen (Eds.), Drip Irrigation for Agriculture: Untold Stories of Efficiency, Innovation and Development (pp. 256-265). (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315537146-16 [details]
- Kuper, M., Venot, J.-P., & Zwarteveen, M. (2017). Introduction: Panda or Hydra? The untold stories of drip irrigation. In J.-P. Venot, M. Kuper, & M. Zwarteveen (Eds.), Drip Irrigation for Agriculture: Untold Stories of Efficiency, Innovation and Development (pp. 1-15). (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315537146-1 [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]
- Veldwisch, G. J., Borsboom, V., Ingen-Housz, F., Zwarteveen, M., Post Uiterweer, N., & Hebinck, P. (2017). Low-cost drip irrigation in Zambia: gendered practices of promotion and use. In J.-P. Venot, M. Kuper, & M. Zwarteveen (Eds.), Drip Irrigation for Agriculture: Untold Stories of Efficiency, Innovation and Development (pp. 204-217). (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315537146-13 [details]
- Vera Delgado, J. M., & Zwarteveen, M. (2017). Queering Engineers? Using History to Re-think the Associations between Masculinity and Irrigation Engineering in Peru. Engineering Studies, 9(2), 140-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/19378629.2017.1361427 [details]
- Wanvoeke, J., Venot, J.-P., Zwarteveen, M., & de Fraiture, C. (2017). The conundrum of low-cost drip irrigation in Burkina Faso: Why development interventions that have little to show continue. In J.-P. Venot, M. Kuper, & M. Zwarteveen (Eds.), Drip Irrigation for Agriculture: Untold Stories of Efficiency, Innovation and Development (pp. 218-236). (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315537146-14 [details]
- Zwarteveen, M. (2017). Decentering the technology: explaining the drip irrigation paradox. In J.-P. Venot, M. Kuper, & M. Zwarteveen (Eds.), Drip Irrigation for Agriculture: Untold Stories of Efficiency, Innovation and Development (pp. 38-53). (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315537146-3 [details]
- Zwarteveen, M. (2017). Hydrocracies, Engineers and Power: Questioning Masculinities in Water. Engineering Studies, 9(2), 78-94. https://doi.org/10.1080/19378629.2017.1358730 [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. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315267630 [details]
- Zwarteveen, M., & Rap, E. (2017). Guest Editor’s Introduction: Engineering Masculinities in Water Governance. Engineering Studies, 9(2), 75-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/19378629.2017.1363019 [details]
- van der Kooij, S., Kuper, M., Zwarteveen, M. Z., & de Fraiture, C. M. S. (2017). A user-centred approach to irrigation performance: drip irrigation in the Krichfa area, Morocco. Water International, 42(7), 794-809. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2017.1373319 [details]
- van der Kooij, S., Kuper, M., de Fraiture, C., Lankford, B., & Zwarteveen, M. (2017). Re-allocating yet-to-be saved water in irrigation modernization projects: the case of the Bittit irrigation system, Morocco. In J.-P. Venot, M. Kuper, & M. Zwarteveen (Eds.), Drip Irrigation for Agriculture: Untold Stories of Efficiency, Innovation and Development (pp. 68-84). (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315537146-5 [details]
2016
- Sosa, M., & Zwarteveen, M. (2016). Questioning the effectiveness of planned conflict resolution strategies in water disputes between rural communities and mining companies in Peru. Water International, 41(3), 483-500. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2016.1141463 [details]
- Wanvoeke, J., Venot, J.-P., De Fraiture, C., & Zwarteveen, M. (2016). Smallholder Drip Irrigation in Burkina Faso: The Role of Development Brokers. Journal of Development Studies, 52(7), 1019-1033. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2015.1107048 [details]
- Wanvoeke, J., Venot, J.-P., Zwarteveen, M., & de Fraiture, C. (2016). Farmers’ Logics in Engaging With Projects Promoting Drip Irrigation Kits in Burkina Faso. Society & Natural Resources, 29(9), 1095-1109. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2015.1132354 [details]
- Zwarteveen, M. (2016). Questioning Masculinities in Water. In M. Shah, & P. S. Vijayshankar (Eds.), Water. Growing Understanding, Emerging Perspectives: Essays from Economic and Political Weekly (pp. 199-217). (Readings on the Economy, Polity and Society). Orient Blackswan.
- Zwarteveen, M., & Liebrand, J. (2016). Performing Modernity: The Scalar Politics of Irrigation Development in Nepal. In Negotiating Water Governance: Why the Politics of Scale Matter (pp. 263-279). Taylor and Francis Inc.. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315597720-21
- Zwarteveen, M., & Liebrand, J. (2016). Performing Modernity: The Scalar Politics of Irrigation Development in Nepal. In E. S. Norman, C. Cook, & A. Cohen (Eds.), Negotiation Water Governance: Why the politics of scale matter (pp. 263-280). (Ashgate Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice ). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781317089179 [details]
2015
- Ahlers, R., Budds, J., Joshi, D., Merme, V., & Zwarteveen, M. (2015). Framing hydropower as green energy: assessing drivers, risks and tensions in the Eastern Himalayas. Earth System Dynamics, 6(1), 195-204. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-6-195-2015 [details]
- Bossenbroek, L., & Zwarteveen, M. (2015). 'One doesn't sell one's parents': gendered experiences of shifting tenure regimes in the agricultural plain of the Sais in Morocco. In C. S. Archambault, & A. Zoomers (Eds.), Global trends in land tenure reform: gender impacts (pp. 152-168). (Routledge studies in gender and development). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315765822 [details]
- Bossenbroek, L., van der Ploeg, J. D., & Zwarteveen, M. (2015). Broken dreams? Youth experiences of agrarian change in Morocco's Saïss region. Cahiers Agricultures, 24(6), 342-348. https://doi.org/10.1684/agr.2015.0776 [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]
- Wanvoeke, J., Venot, J. P., Zwarteveen, M., & de Fraiture, C. (2015). Performing the success of an innovation: the case of smallholder drip irrigation in Burkina Faso. Water International, 40(3), 432-445. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2015.1010364 [details]
- Zwarteveen, M., & Liebrand, J. (2015). Performing modernity: the scalar politics of irrigation development in Nepal. In E. S. Norman, C. Cook, & A. Cohen (Eds.), Negotiating water governance: why the politics of scale matter (pp. 263-280). (Ashgate studies in environmental policy and practice). Ashgate. [details]
- van der Kooij, S., Zwarteveen, M., & Kuper, M. (2015). The material of the social: the mutual shaping of institutions by irrigation technology and society in Sequia Krichfa, Morocco. The International Journal of the Commons, 9(1), 129-150. http://www.thecommonsjournal.org/index.php/ijc/article/view/539/486 [details]
2014
- Benouniche, M., Zwarteveen, M., & Kuper, M. (2014). Bricolage as innovation: opening the black box of drip irrigation systems. Irrigation and Drainage, 63(5), 651-658. https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.1854 [details]
- Bhushan Udas, P., Roth, D., & Zwarteveen, M. (2014). Informal privatisation of community taps: issues of access and equity. Local Environment, 19(9), 1024-1041. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2014.885936 [details]
- Boelens, R., Budds, J., Bury, J., Butler, C., Crow, B., Dill, B., French, A., Harris, L. M., Hoag, C., Kulkarni, S., Langridge, R., Lu, F., Norris, T. B., Ocampo-Raeder, C., Perrault, T., Romano, S., Spronk, S., Srinivasan, V., Tucker, C. M., & Zwarteveen, M. Z. (2014). Santa Cruz declaration on the global water crisis. Water International, 39(2), 246-261. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2014.886936 [details]
- Bossenbroek, L., & Zwarteveen, M. (2014). Irrigation Management in the Pamirs in Tajikistan: A Man's Domain? Mountain Research and Development, 34(3), 266-275. https://doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-13-00087.1 [details]
- Joy, K. J., Kulkarni, S., Roth, D., & Zwarteveen, M. (2014). Re-politicising water governance: exploring water re-allocations in terms of justice. Local Environment, 19(9), 954-973. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2013.870542 [details]
- Roth, D., Zwarteveen, M., Joy, K. J., & Kulkarni, S. (2014). Water rights, conflicts, and justice in South Asia. Local Environment, 19(9), 947-953. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2012.752232 [details]
- Sosa, M., & Zwarteveen, M. (2014). The institutional regulation of the sustainability of water resources within mining contexts: accountability and plurality. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 11, 19-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2014:09.013 [details]
- Venot, J.-P., Zwarteveen, M., Kuper, M., Boesveld, H., Bossenbroek, L., Van Der Kooij, S., Wanvoeke, J., Benouniche, M., Errahj, M., De Fraiture, C., & Verma, S. (2014). Beyond the promises of technology: A review of the discourses and actors who make drip irrigation. Irrigation and Drainage, 63(2), 186-194. https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.1839 [details]
- Zwarteveen, M. Z., & Boelens, R. (2014). Defining, researching and struggling for water justice: some conceptual building blocks for research and action. Water International, 39(2), 143-158. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2014.891168 [details]
2013
- Uiterweer, N. C. P., Zwarteveen, M. Z., Veldwisch, G. J., & van Koppen, B. M. C. (2013). Redressing inequities through domestic water supply: A ‘poor’ example from Sekhukhune, South Africa. In Water Governance for Sustainable Development (pp. 55-74). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781849773768
- Van der Kooij, S., Zwarteveen, M., Boesveld, H., & Kuper, M. (2013). The efficiency of drip irrigation unpacked. Agricultural Water Management, 123, 103-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2013.03.014
2012
- Liebrand, J., Zwarteveen, M. Z., Wester, P., & van Koppen, B. (2012). The deep waters of land reform: Land, water and conservation area claims in Limpopo Province, Olifants Basin, South Africa. Water International, 37(7), 773-787. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2012.740613
- Sosa, M., & Zwarteveen, M. (2012). Exploring the politics of water grabbing: The case of large mining operations in the Peruvian Andes. Water Alternatives, 5(2), 360-375.
2011
- Zwarteveen, M. (2011). Questioning masculinities in water. Economic and Political Weekly, 46(18), 40-48.
2010
- Udas, P. B., & Zwarteveen, M. Z. (2010). Can water professionals meet gender goals? A case study of the Department of Irrigation in Nepal. Gender and Development, 18(1), 87-97. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552071003600075
- Zwarteveen, M. (2010). A masculine water world: The politics of gender and identity in irrigation expert thinking. In Out of the Mainstream: Water Rights, Politics and Identity (pp. 75-96). Earthscan. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781849774796
- Zwarteveen, M. Z. (2010). The politics of gender in water and the gender of water politics. In The Politics of Water: A Survey: First Edition (pp. 184-200). Taylor and Francis Ltd..
2009
- Ahlers, R., & Zwarteveen, M. (2009). The water question in feminism: Water control and gender inequities in a neo-liberal era. Gender, Place and Culture, 16(4), 409-426. https://doi.org/10.1080/09663690903003926
- Zwarteveen, M. (2009). The virtues of new water knowledge. Irrigation and Drainage, 58(2 SPEC. ISS.), S188-S194. https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.506
- Zwarteveen, M. Z., Udas, P. B., & Vera Delgado, J. (2009). Gendered dynamics of participation in water management in Nepal and Peru: Revisiting the linkages between membership and power. In Social Participation in Water Governance and Management: Critical and Global Perspectives (pp. 69-92). Earthscan. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781849774574
2008
- Vera Delgado, J., & Zwarteveen, M. (2008). Modernity, exclusion and resistance: Water and indigenous struggles in Peru. Development, 51(1), 114-120. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.development.1100467
- Zwarteveen, M. (2008). Men, masculinities and water powers in irrigation. Water Alternatives, 1(1), 111-130.
2007
- Vera Delgado, J., & Zwarteveen, M. (2007). The public and private domain of the everyday politics of water: The constructions of gender and water power in the Andes of Peru. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 9(4), 503-511. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616740701608018
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.
- Udas, P. B., & Zwarteveen, M. (2005). Prescribing gender equity? The case of the tukucha nala irrigation system, central Nepal. In Liquid Relations: Contested Water Rights and Legal Complexity (pp. 21-43). 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
2001
- Zwarteveen, M., & Meinzen-Dick, R. (2001). Gender and property rights in the commons: Examples of water rights in South Asia. Agriculture and human values, 18(1), 11-25. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007677317899
1998
- Meinzen-Dick, R., & Zwarteveen, M. (1998). Gendered participation in water management: Issues and illustrations from water users' associations in South Asia. Agriculture and human values, 15(4), 337-345. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007533018254
- Zwarteveen, M. Z. (1998). Identifying gender aspects of new irrigation management policies. Agriculture and human values, 15(4), 301-312. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007576700507
1997
- Zwarteveen, M. Z. (1997). Water: From Basic Need to Commodity: A Discussion on Gender and Water Rights in the Context of Irrigation. World Development, 25(8), 1335-1349. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-750X(97)00032-6
2025
- Acevedo-Guerrero, T., Bossenbroek, L., Leonardelli, I., Zwarteveen, M., & Kulkarni, S. (2025). Introduction: A carrier bag for gender and feminist water research. In T. Acevedo-Guerrero, L. Bossenbroek, I. Leonardelli, M. Zwarteveen, & S. Kulkarni (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Gender and Water Governance (pp. 1-19). (Routledge environment and sustainability handbooks). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003100379-1 [details]
2023
- Heller, L., Karunananthan, M., Zwarteveen, M., Hall, D., Manahan, M. A., & Diouf, F. (2023). What water will the UN Conference carry forward: a fundamental human right or a commodity? The Lancet, 402(10404), 757-759. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01430-7 [details]
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]
2020
- Kemerink-Seyoum, J. S., Chitata, T., Guzmán, C. D., Silva-Novoa Sanchez, L. M., & Zwarteveen, M. Z. (2020). Correction: Kemerink-Seyoum, J.S.; et al. Title Attention to sociotechnical tinkering with irrigation infrastructure as a way to rethink water governance. Water, 2019, 11, 1670. Water (Switzerland), 12(3), Article 624. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12030624
2017
- Venot, J.-P., Kuper, M., & Zwarteveen, M. (Eds.) (2017). Drip Irrigation for Agriculture: Untold Stories of Efficiency, Innovation and Development. (Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315537146 [details]
- Zwarteveen, M., Kemerink-Seyoum, J. S., Kooy, M., Evers, J., Acevedo Guerrero, T., Batubara, B., Biza, A., Boakye-Ansah, A., Faber, S., Cabrera Flamini, A., Cuadrado-Quesada, G., Fantini, E., Gupta, J., Hasan, S., ter Horst, R., Jamali, H., Jaspers, F., Obani, P., Schwartz, K., ... Wesselink, A. (2017). Engaging with the politics of water governance. Wires Water, 4(6), Article e01245. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1245 [details]
2013
- Van Der Kooij, S., Zwarteveen, M., Boesveld, H., & Kuper, M. (2013). Erratum to "The efficiency of drip irrigation unpacked" [Agric. Water Manage. 123 (2013) 103-110]. Agricultural Water Management, 127, 124-126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2013.06.012
2017
- Dominguez-Guzman, C., Verzijl, A., & Zwarteveen, M. (2017). Thirsty mangos and thrifty farmers: dialogues between the Water Footprint and Peruvian smallholder farmers. Web publication or website, FLOWs. https://flows.hypotheses.org/457 [details]
- Kemerink-Seyoum, J., Zwarteveen, M., Evers, J., Buist, E., & Acevedo Guerrero, T. (2017). Pluralizing water science. Web publication or website, FLOWs. https://flows.hypotheses.org/747 [details]
2015
- Zwarteveen, M. (2015). Regulating water, ordering society: practices and politics of water governance. (Oratiereeks; No. 529). Universiteit van Amsterdam. http://www.oratiereeks.nl/upload/pdf/PDF-5940weboratie_Zwarteveen_-_DEF.pdf [details]
2016
- Zwarteveen, M. Z. (2016). What is water governance? Magreet Zwarteveen on water governance. Digital or Visual Products, FLOWs. https://flows.hypotheses.org/40
Talk / presentation
- Zwarteveen, M. Z. (invited speaker) (30-11-2017). Beyond inclusion: identifying and addressing the gender dimensions of water projects, Seminar for the Oxford Water network.
- Zwarteveen, M. Z. (invited speaker) (20-6-2017). Socializing environmental flows? (or: what is social about environmental flows?), Social and Ecohydrological Science Connections for Environmental Flows, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), Annapolis, Maryland, USA.
- Zwarteveen, M. Z. (invited speaker) (10-6-2017). The Water Footprint and what it does and doesn’t do [public lecture], IHE open day.
- Zwarteveen, M. Z. (invited speaker) (9-2-2017). Who talks about water, and how? Gendered constructions of voice and authority in the water sector, Film festival and seminar “Let’s Talk about Water”, KIT and de Balie, Amsterdam.
- Zwarteveen, M. Z. (invited speaker) (2-2-2017). Localizing Waters: Bringing global water science initiatives down to earth, King’s College Annual Lecture 2016-2017, Human Geography Series.
- Zwarteveen, M. Z. (keynote speaker) (24-1-2017). Questioning water’s univers-ality: a plea for localizing and plurifying water knowledge, 20th Anniversary Conference of ATREE (Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment), Bangalore.
2023
2022
2021
- Domínguez Guzmán, C. (2021). Doing irrigation in a non-modern world: Techno- and water diversity in the mango orchards of Northern Peru. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
- Hasan, S. (2021). Making waves: Reimagining policy transfer in the context of development cooperation. [Thesis, externally prepared, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
2020
- Boakye-Ansah, A. S. (2020). Pro-poor strategies in urban water provisioning: What Kenyan water utilities do and why they do it. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. CRC Press/Balkema. [details]
- Ferdous, M. R. (2020). Socio-hydrological dynamics in Bangladesh: Understanding the interaction between hydrological and social processes along the Jamuna floodplain. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
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UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education
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UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education
Acevedo-Guerrero, T., Bossenbroek, L., Leonardelli, I., Zwarteveen, M., & Kulkarni, S. (2025). Concluding reflections - future directions for feminist water research. In T. Acevedo-Guerrero, L. Bossenbroek, I. Leonardelli, M. Zwarteveen, & S. Kulkarni (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Gender and Water Governance (pp. 414-417). (Routledge environment and sustainability handbooks). Routledge.