Journal of Political Ecology special section on water justice

Photo credits: Jörg Balsiger

The Journal of Political Ecology has published a series of peer-reviewed articles as the grassroots special section "Knowledge co-creation and water conservation in the Global South," edited by Emilie Dupuits (Universidad San Francisco de Quito), Cecilia Puertas (International University of Ecuador) & Jörg Balsiger (University of Geneva). The contributions are the result of a workshop organized in Quito in July 2022 and constitute one of the main outputs of the project "Global ecosystem services and local water conservation knowledge battlefields in the Ecuadorian highlands (H2O-Ecuador)"; the project was coordinated by the same three researchers and funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation under the University of St. Gallen-coordinated Leading House for the Latin American Region programme. Although the grassroots special section focuses on water justice issues in Latin America, the theoretical and empirical issues raised by the authors are of much wider relevance and interest.