Tag: water

Planet Aqua: il mondo liquido secondo Jeremy Rifkin

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Riporto di seguito una mia critica a Planet Aqua di Jeremy Rifkin che ho scritto qualche mese fa per il sito Le Parole e Le Cose. L'articolo è consultabile anche qui: https://www.leparoleelecose.it/planet-aqua-il-mondo-liquido-secondo-jeremy-rifkin/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNHG19leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHuuVlP5mlhCXwegRK6DsRVJPJZMTuo9A25EPgV741DYJCR9jwk__yuhTUovU_aem_glN3tN4y_3mxzeyI9T3P1Q. In un tempo segnato dalla simultaneità delle crisi – ecologica, democratica, energetica – la figura di Jeremy Rifkin continua a occupare uno spazio … Continue reading Planet Aqua: il mondo liquido secondo Jeremy Rifkin

Hosepipe bans won’t save us

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(Originally published by The Ecologist: https://theecologist.org/2025/aug/12/hosepipe-bans-wont-save-us) This summer hosepipe bans return across parts of the UK and friendly advice echoes through headlines and social media feeds: take shorter showers, let your lawn go brown, don’t fill the paddling pool.  The message is clear: if only we adjusted our habits, there would be enough water to … Continue reading Hosepipe bans won’t save us

Three types of drought – and why there’s no such thing as a global water crisis

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Hosepipe bans have been announced in parts of England this summer. Following the driest spring in over a century, the Environment Agency has issued a medium drought risk warning, and Yorkshire Water will introduce restrictions starting Friday, 11 July. It’s a familiar story: reduced rainfall, shrinking reservoirs and renewed calls for restraint: take shorter showers, … Continue reading Three types of drought – and why there’s no such thing as a global water crisis

Op-Ed for Renewable Matter: Water as weapon: India’s threat to the Indus Treaty signals a dangerous global turn

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I recently published the following editorial in Renewable Matter, where I reflect on India’s threat to unilaterally suspend the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan. This is not only a deeply troubling development in a volatile region — it also speaks to a broader shift in the global order, where international agreements are increasingly disregarded in … Continue reading Op-Ed for Renewable Matter: Water as weapon: India’s threat to the Indus Treaty signals a dangerous global turn

New publication in IEMed Yearbook

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Each year, the European Institute for the Mediterranean (IEMed) publishes its Yearbook, an open-access volume that reviews current developments in the Mediterranean geopolitical area. This year, I contributed a small piece on hydropolitics in the MENA region. You can find it below at also at this link. 2024_Hyrdopolitics-Mena-Region-Menga-IEMedYearbook2024Download

Call for abstracts for the 2023 Development Studies Association (DSA) Conference: Where and what is the ‘global’ water crisis in the Anthropocene?

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Panel convenors: Filippo Menga (University of Bergamo); Maria Rusca (University of Manchester); Nate Millington (University of Manchester) Date and Place: 28-30 June 2023, Reading, UK and online Please note: All proposals must be submitted via this link: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/dsa2023/p/13009# The popularity of the notion of the Anthropocene – an unstable geological epoch in which humans and their actions are … Continue reading Call for abstracts for the 2023 Development Studies Association (DSA) Conference: Where and what is the ‘global’ water crisis in the Anthropocene?

“Celebrity campaigners, conscientious contributors, and risk-bearing subjects in the environmental governance breach” CfP for 2021 RGS-IBG conference

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Convened by Kimberley Thomas, Temple University (USA) and Filippo Menga, University of Reading (UK) (link to the PDF of this call) This session seeks to highlight and explore the nexus of decentralization, responsibilization, and individualization of environmental governance across a range of social, spatial, political, economic, and historical contexts. While the appropriate scale for environmental … Continue reading “Celebrity campaigners, conscientious contributors, and risk-bearing subjects in the environmental governance breach” CfP for 2021 RGS-IBG conference