Partner Institutions

  • Newcastle University, United Kingdom
  • University of Manchester, United Kingdom
  • Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
  • University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Higher University of San Simón, Bolivia
  • University of São Paulo, Brazil
  • Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Mexico

Newcastle University, United Kingdom

School of Geography, Politics and Sociology (GPS)

Newcastle University is an international centre of excellence for research on issues of water governance and citizenship. Among other relevant issues, researchers of GPS work on relevant aspects of the political ecology of water including water policy and politics in countries from the North and the Global South, water-related gender and indigenous studies, and the privatization of water services. The researcher involved in the project is a member of the university's Americas Research Group.

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University of Manchester, United Kingdom

School of Environment and Development (SED)

The SED is an internationally distinguished centre for interdisciplinary research on environment-development issues that moves across regional, national and international scales of analysis. The School currently hosts several externally-funded multi-disciplinary research centres which have established links with governments, multilateral agencies, NGOs and other distinguished research institutions. It houses the Geographical Political Economy research group, which focuses on political economy, socio-spatial and socio-environmental theory, political ecology, the politics, economics, and sociology of water, nature/society, critical theory, and cities.

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Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (ICTA)

The ICTA brings together over 80 researchers from eighteen departments at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, including town and country planning and environmental management, sociology, politics, economics, anthropology, legal studies, and education. It also runs an Environmental Science Degree and offers master and doctoral supervision on environmental problems. The ICTA team involved in the network is composed by academics from the Ecological Economics Research Group and from Human Geography.

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University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Research ‘Gino Germani’

The Research Institute Gino Germani (IIGG) at the Faculty of Social Sciences (FCS), University of Buenos Aires, is one of the most important social science research centres in the country. It houses academics from five sub-faculties (Sociology, Political Science, Communication, Labour Relations, and Social Work), and also a number of senior researchers and postgraduates funded by the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). The researchers involved in WATERLAT belong to the Research Programme on Social Change (PICASO).

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Higher University of San Simón, Bolivia

Centre for Higher University Studies (CESU)

The Universidad Mayor de San Simón (UMSS) was founded in 1832 and is the second largest of Bolivia. The Centro de Estudios Superiores Universitarios (CESU ) is a multidisciplinary postgraduate department with expertise in Economics, Social and Political Sciences and Humanities. CESU has close links with NGOs, government institutions, and international universities, and its main objective is the organization of academic and technical training programmes (Specialisation, Master and Doctorate levels) and research. The CESU has close links with the university’s Andean Centre for Water Management and Use and the Centre for Water and Environmental Sanitation.

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University of São Paulo, Brazil

Post-Graduate Programme in Environmental Science (PROCAM) & Institute of Advanced Studies (IEA)

The PROCAM-USP was founded in 1989 to develop teaching and research activities in environmental policy at the master, doctoral and postdoctoral levels. The main focus of the Programme has been on watershed governance and water policy Brazil, emphasizing the interlinks between institutional, environmental, social, educational and territorial aspects. The IEA-USP was created in 1986 to provide a space of interdisciplinary integration for research and debate in the fields of science, technology, culture, and the social applications of knowledge. One of IEA’s main activities is the scientific and cultural exchange with Brazilian and international institutions through cooperation agreements, academic visits, and other forms of interaction.

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Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Mexico

The Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) promotes teaching and research in the social sciences with a focus on Latin American countries. FLACSO was created in 1957 and currently has academic branches in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Dominican Republic and Uruguay. The General Secretary is located in San Jose de Costa Rica. FLACSO Mexico has a research programme on ‘Water and society’ that was created in 1988 and focuses on the training of postgraduate students and interdisciplinary research on social aspects of water management.

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