Prof. dr. ir. M.Z. (Margreet) Zwarteveen
Professor by special appointment
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
GPIO : Governance and Inclusive Development
Area of expertise: Water governance, environmental science, irrigation
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
- Room number: B4.05
Postal address
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Postbus 15629
1001 NC Amsterdam
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Profile
I have over 30 years of experience studying how institutions, technologies and markets shape water allocation and regulate water flows, and in exploring the role that (scientific) knowledges and policy discourses play in justifying or promoting particular water management models or governance configurations. The relation between power/politics and water is central in my work, with explicit attention to gender. In the past few years, I have become ever more fascinated by questions of groundwater.
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Research
Research methods
- Case studies
- ethnography
- critical discourse analysis
- participant observation
Current research projects
- Aquiverse (PI): 6 studies in 3 countries of caring for groundwater provide the empirical material for a re-theorization of society-groundwater dynamics in relational terms.
- Carefull irrigation: (Collaborator) A grounded exoplorartion in 6 countries of how farmers combine agro-ecology with irrigation.
Research grants & honours
- ERC Advanced Grant (2025 - 2030)
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PhD Supervision
- Marie Belland. 2020-2024. The political ecology of subsidence; a case in Semarang, Jakarta.
- Bota Sharipova. 2020-2024. The role of trust and mistrust in transboundary water cooperation.
- Raquel Hadrich da Silva. 2020-2024. Making Indian cities resilient.
- Caroline Murungi. 2017-2022. Practicing the operation and management of water services. Understanding water services delivery in Kenya and Uganda.
- Adriano Biza. 2015-2022. The Politics of Wastewater in Maputo City.
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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 [details]
- 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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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.