We are glad to announce the OEET Webinar "Will there be water wars in the future?", which will be held by Jampel Dell'Angelo on Wednesday, May 21st 2025 | 4 – 6 pm (CEST), seminar room 3D233 (3rd floor) | Campus Luigi Einaudi, Lungo Dora Siena 100/A | Turin. Welcome and introduction: Elena Vallino
It will also be web-streamed via Webex at https://unito.webex.com/meet/elena.vallino
Below you can find an outline of the presentation and a short bio of Jampel Dell'Angelo.
Public Seminar (4 – 5 p.m.): The vexed question on water wars has been recurringly discussed in the hydropolitical literature, with diametrically opposed truths that are often portrayed.
Considering the “global water crisis”, and the escalating geopolitical and military tensions, there is a legitimate worry about the future, but this may not be the “right” question. The seminar will introduce the novel analytical lens of “hydrosocial cost-shifting” which will be used to discuss the hidden dynamics and impacts of the “contemporary water wars” considered in light of the rising phenomenon of global land and water (commons) grabbing.
Conversation with the author (5 – 6 p.m.): Q&A. The author will also speak about his experience as Editor-In-Chief of World Development.
Dr Jampel Dell'Angelo is Associate Professor of Water Governance and Politics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is an environmental social scientist working on the political economy of natural resources, in particular water. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal World Development, he leads the EU funded NEWAVE Next Water Governance international research and training network and he is the Director of the Dutch Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment (SENSE).
