Alan Nicol
Biographic Data
| ID | 5436831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Nicol |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Nicol |
| SIGNATURE | NICOL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Water Management Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7237-8825 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Escaping the Capitalist Black Hole
Colonial legacies and neoliberal capitalism continue to underpin and intensify global water insecurity. Drawing on five years of research from the UK-funded Water Security and Sustainable Development Hub across Colombia, Ethiopia, India and Malaysia, this Research Note identifies consistent patterns of water dispossession linked to capital accumulation. Despite divergent local contexts, our findings point to a common dynamic: a ‘Capitalist Black …
(Re)constructing state power and livelihoods through the Laos-China Railway project
Water Governance and Collective Action
The cost of a knowledge silo
Divisions between communities, disciplinary and practice, impede understanding of how complex interventions in health and other sectors actually work and slow the development and spread of more effective ones. We test this hypothesis by re-reviewing a Cochrane-standard systematic review (SR) of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions' impact on child diarrhoea morbidity: can greater understanding of impacts and how they are achieved be…
Global environmental justice and the right to water
Introduction
This introduction reviews the experience of the water and sanitation sector since the 1990 New Delhi Statement Some for All Rather than More for Some. It explores the policy pathways and contested politics that took place as a result of three key years in the early 1990s, from the issuing of the New Delhi Statement in 1990, through the Dublin Statement on Water and Sustainable Development in 1992, to the output of the Earth Summit held in Rio de …
Against the flow – new power dynamics and upstream mobilisation in the Nile Basin
A “Blue Revolution” for African Agriculture
Politics and Water Policy
Drawing on fieldwork from the Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa programme - largely undertaken in Zimbabwe, with some additional material from South Africa and Mozambique - this article examines the politics surrounding water resources and policy change in southern Africa. It outlines the policy contexts of water reforms in the three countries. The article then investigates: the process of institution-building accompanying water policy r…
Politics and Water Policy
Drawing on fieldwork from the Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa programme - largely undertaken in Zimbabwe, with some additional material from South Africa and Mozambique - this article examines the politics surrounding water resources and policy change in southern Africa. It outlines the policy contexts of water reforms in the three countries. The article then investigates: the process of institution-building accompanying water policy r…
A “Blue Revolution” for African Agriculture
Against the flow – new power dynamics and upstream mobilisation in the Nile Basin
Introduction
This introduction reviews the experience of the water and sanitation sector since the 1990 New Delhi Statement Some for All Rather than More for Some. It explores the policy pathways and contested politics that took place as a result of three key years in the early 1990s, from the issuing of the New Delhi Statement in 1990, through the Dublin Statement on Water and Sustainable Development in 1992, to the output of the Earth Summit held in Rio de …
Global environmental justice and the right to water
The cost of a knowledge silo
Divisions between communities, disciplinary and practice, impede understanding of how complex interventions in health and other sectors actually work and slow the development and spread of more effective ones. We test this hypothesis by re-reviewing a Cochrane-standard systematic review (SR) of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions' impact on child diarrhoea morbidity: can greater understanding of impacts and how they are achieved be…
Water Governance and Collective Action
(Re)constructing state power and livelihoods through the Laos-China Railway project
Escaping the Capitalist Black Hole
Colonial legacies and neoliberal capitalism continue to underpin and intensify global water insecurity. Drawing on five years of research from the UK-funded Water Security and Sustainable Development Hub across Colombia, Ethiopia, India and Malaysia, this Research Note identifies consistent patterns of water dispossession linked to capital accumulation. Despite divergent local contexts, our findings point to a common dynamic: a ‘Capitalist Black …
Political science (7 works) · Geography (5 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact (3 works) · Livelihood (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)