Rural-Urban Water Struggles (PDF)

Lena Hommes is an Associated Researcher with the Water Resources Management Group of the Department of Environmental Sciences at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on hydrosocial territories, rural-urban water relations, politics of water infrastructure projects, water justice struggles and socio-environmental transformations in Latin America.

Rutgerd Boelens is a Professor of Water Governance and Social Justice in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and a Professor of Political Ecology of Water in Latin America with CEDLA (Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation) at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Peru (Department of Social Sciences), Lima, Peru, and the Central University of Ecuador (Faculty of Agricultural Sciences), Quito, Ecuador, and coordinates the international Justicia Hídrica / Water Justice Alliance. He is also the main scientific editor of the book series Water and Society, bringing together various Latin American publishing houses. His work includes articles and books focusing on water rights, water grabbing, hydrosocial territories, legal pluralism, cultural politics, governmentalities and social mobilizations in Latin America and Spain.