type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Increased global trade in agricultural commodities has boosted fresh water consumption. This export of ‘virtual water’, embedded in products sold abroad, has increasingly affected local communities and ecosystems, especially in arid regions. Recent initiatives to certify...</p>

Naturalization and universal application of concepts such as ‘efficiency’ and ‘productivity’ by policy makers and water experts in the water sector leads water managers and water users to internalize these norms. As we show in this exploratory paper, the effects could be threefold:...

This article provides a framework for understanding water problems as problems of justice. Drawing on wider (environmental) justice approaches, informed by interdisciplinary ontologies that define water as simultaneously natural (material) and social, and based on an explicit acceptance of water...

Payments for environmental services (PES) are payments to land owners whose land management practices help to provide environmental services (ES). In the context of watershed environmental services, the most important services are the supply, purification and regulation of water. PES was...

Zahlungen für Ökosystemdienstleistungen (payments for ecosystem services , PES) sind Zahlungen an Grundbesitzer, deren Landbewirtschaftungspraktiken helfen, Ökosystemdienstleistungen ( ecosystem services , ES) zu erbringen. Im Kontext von Wassereinzugsgebieten sind die wichtigsten Leistungen...