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Editorial: Innovating A New Knowledge Base For Water Justice Studies: Hydrosocial, Sociohydrology, And Beyond, Melissa Haeffner, Jenia Mukherjee, Rebecca Lave, Jamie Linton, John Ndiritu, Raul Pacheco-Vega, Maria Ruska, Margreet Zwarteveen

Environmental Science and Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

Creating a new knowledge base that centers water justice (Zwarteveen and Boelens, 2014; Sultana, 2018; Wölfle-Hazard, 2022) in hydrosocial and sociohydrology studies involves a broader discussion about why justice matters, how to work toward this goal, and what the implications for research praxis are. The articles in this Research Topic approach different angles of water justice: as law (Fernández and Alba), a social movement (Dame et al.), practice (Pool et al.; Reeves and Bonney), cases of injustice (Caretta et al.), and theory (Krueger and Alba). From this Research Topic, we find that the interrelated concepts of naturecultures and care can …