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Professor Frances Cleaver

Chair in Political Ecology

  1. 1991
  2. Published

    Maintenance of rural water supplies in Zimbabwe

    Cleaver, F., 1/04/1991, In: Waterlines. 9, 4, p. 23-26 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  3. 1994
  4. Published

    Problems in the planning of rural water supply projects: Lessons from Nkayi district, Zimbabwe

    Cleaver, F., 1/01/1994, In: Journal of International Development. 6, 1, p. 123-127 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  5. 1995
  6. Published

    Water as a weapon: the history of water supply development in Nkayi district, Zimbabwe

    Cleaver, F., 1/10/1995, In: Environment & History. 1, 3, p. 313-333 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. 1996
  8. Published

    Donor policies and gender in the water and sanitation sector

    Cleaver, F. & Jobes, K., 1/05/1996, In: Natural Resources Forum. 20, 2, p. 111-116 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  9. Published

    The 5% 'rule': Fact or fiction?

    Cleaver, F. & Lomas, I., 1/06/1996, In: Development Policy Review. 14, 2, p. 173-183 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. 1998
  11. Published

    Choice, complexity, and change: Gendered livelihoods and the management of water

    Cleaver, F., 1/12/1998, In: Agriculture and Human Values. 15, 4, p. 293-299 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Incentives and informal institutions: Gender and the management of water

    Cleaver, F., 1/12/1998, In: Agriculture and Human Values. 15, 4, p. 347-360 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. Published

    The challenges ahead - water-resources management for the next millennium

    Cleaver, F. & Franks, T., 1/12/1998, In: Waterlines. 16, 4, p. 2-4 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  14. 1999
  15. Published

    Paradoxes of participation: Questioning participatory approaches to development

    Cleaver, F., 1/06/1999, In: Journal of International Development. 11, 4, p. 597-612 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. 2000
  17. Published

    Moral ecological rationality, institutions and the management of common property resources

    Cleaver, F., 1/03/2000, In: Development and Change. 31, 2, p. 361-383 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Analysing gender roles in community natural resource management negotiation, lifecourses and social inclusion

    Cleaver, F., 1/04/2000, In: IDS Bulletin. 31, 2, p. 60-67 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. 2001
  20. Published

    Institutional bricolage, conflict and cooperation in Usangu, Tanzania

    Cleaver, F., 1/10/2001, In: IDS Bulletin. 32, 4, p. 26-35 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  21. 2002
  22. Published

    People, livelihoods and decision making in catchment management: A case study from Tanzania

    Franks, T. & Cleaver, F., 26/03/2002, In: Waterlines. 20, 3, p. 7-10 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  23. Published

    Reinventing institutions: Bricolage and the social embeddedness of natural resource management

    Cleaver, F., 1/12/2002, In: European Journal of Development Research. 14, 2, p. 11-30 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  24. 2003
  25. Published

    Reinventing institutions: Bricolage and the social embeddedness of natural resource management

    Cleaver, F., 1/01/2003, Securing Land Rights in Africa. Benjaminsen, T. A. & Lund, C. (eds.). Taylor and Francis, p. 11-30 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  26. 2005
  27. Published

    The inequality of social capital and the reproduction of chronic poverty

    Cleaver, F., 1/06/2005, In: World Development. 33, 6, p. 893-906 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  28. 2006
  29. Published

    The evolution of community water governance in Uchira, Tanzania: The implications for equality of access, sustainability and effectiveness

    Cleaver, F. & Toner, A., 1/08/2006, In: Natural Resources Forum. 30, 3, p. 207-218 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  30. 2007
  31. Published

    Understanding Agency in Collective Action

    Cleaver, F., 1/07/2007, In: Journal of Human Development. 8, 2, p. 223-244 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  32. Published

    Water governance and poverty: A framework for analysis

    Franks, T. & Cleaver, F., 1/10/2007, In: Progress in Development Studies. 7, 4, p. 291-306 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  33. 2008
  34. Published

    The social embeddedness of agency and decision-making

    Cleaver, F., 1/01/2008, Participation: from tyranny to transformation?: Exploring new approaches to participation in development. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., p. 271-277 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  35. Published

    Distilling or diluting? Negotiating the water research-policy interface

    Cleaver, F. & Franks, T., 1/06/2008, In: Water Alternatives. 1, 1, p. 157-176 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  36. 2009
  37. Published

    Analysing water governance: A tool for sustainability?

    Franks, T. & Cleaver, F., 1/12/2009, In: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Engineering Sustainability. 162, 4, p. 207-213 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  38. 2010
  39. Published

    'Good' water governance and gender equity: A troubled relationship

    Cleaver, F. & Hamada, K., 1/03/2010, In: Gender and Development. 18, 1, p. 27-41 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  40. 2011
  41. Published

    Gender and integrated water resource management

    Cleaver, F. & Nyatsambo, R., 1/01/2011, Water Resources Planning and Management. Grafton, R. Q. & Hussey, K. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, p. 311-330 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  42. Published

    Prestation de services à bon marché? Les travailleurs communautaires dans les interventions de développement

    Boesten, J., Mdee, A. & Cleaver, F., 1/02/2011, In: Development in Practice. 21, 1, p. 41-58 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  43. 2012
  44. Published

    Development through bricolage? Institutions and natural resource management

    Cleaver, F., 2012, Routledge. 224 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  45. Published

    Institutional bricolage in community forestry: An agenda for future research

    De Koning, J. & Cleaver, F., 1/02/2012, Forest-people Interfaces: Understanding Community Forestry and Biocultural Diversity. Wageningen Academic Publishers, p. 277-290 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  46. 2013
  47. Published

    Water governance and livelihoods: Outcomes for smallholders on the Usangu plains, Tanzania

    Franks, T., Cleaver, F., Maganga, F. & Hall, K., 1/11/2013, In: Water Resources and Rural Development. 1-2, p. 1-16 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  48. Published

    ASR forum: Engaging with African informal economies: institutions, security, and pastoralism: Exploring the limits of hybridity

    Cleaver, F., Franks, T., Maganga, F. & Hall, K., 1/12/2013, In: African Studies Review. 56, 3, p. 165-189 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineReview articlepeer-review

  49. 2014
  50. Published

    Capturing critical institutionalism: A synthesis of key themes and debates

    Hall, K., Cleaver, F., Franks, T. & Maganga, F., 1/01/2014, In: European Journal of Development Research. 26, 1, p. 71-86 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  51. Published

    Informal space in the urban waterscape: Disaggregation and co-production of water services

    Ahlers, R., Cleaver, F., Rusca, M. & Schwartz, K., 1/02/2014, In: Water Alternatives. 7, 1, p. 1-14 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  52. 2015
  53. Published

    Furthering critical institutionalism

    Cleaver, F. & De Koning, J., 1/01/2015, In: International Journal of the Commons. 9, 1, p. 1-18 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  54. Published

    In pursuit of arrangements that work: Bricolage, practical norms and everyday water governance

    Cleaver, F., 15/05/2015, Real Governance and Practical Norms in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Game of the Rules. De Herdt, T. & Olivier de Sardan, J.-P. (eds.). Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 207-227 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  55. 2016
  56. Reductionist and integrative research approaches to complex water security policy challenges

    Zeitoun, M., Lankford, B., Krueger, T., Forsyth, T., Carter, R., Hoekstra, A. Y., Taylor, R., Varis, O., Cleaver, F., Boelens, R., Swatuk, L., Tickner, D., Scott, C. A., Mirumachi, N. & Matthews, N., 1/07/2016, In: Global Environmental Change. 39, p. 143-154 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  57. 2017
  58. Can ‘functionality’ save the community management model of rural water supply?

    Whaley, L. & Cleaver, F., 1/06/2017, In: Water Resources and Rural Development. 9, p. 56-66 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  59. 2018
  60. Published

    Everyday water injustice and the politics of accommodation

    Cleaver, F., 1/01/2018, Water Justice. Cambridge University Press, p. 246-258 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  61. Published

    Understanding process, power, and meaning in adaptive governance: A critical institutional reading

    Cleaver, F. & Whaley, L., 1/06/2018, In: Ecology and Society. 23, 2, 14 p., 49.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  62. Published

    Artisanal mining in Southern Tanzania: Preliminary reflections on a ‘Green squeeze’

    Bersaglio, B. & Cleaver, F., 1/07/2018, In: Extractive Industries and Society. 5, 3, p. 274-277 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineComment/debatepeer-review

  63. Published

    Green Grab by Bricolage - The Institutional Workings of Community Conservancies in Kenya

    Bersaglio, B. & Cleaver, F., 1/10/2018, In: Conservation and Society. 16, 4, p. 467-480 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  64. 2019
  65. Published

    Evidence, ideology, and the policy of community management in Africa

    Whaley, L., Mac Allister, D. J., Bonsor, H., Mwathunga, E., Banda, S., Katusiime, F., Tadesse, Y., Cleaver, F. & MacDonald, A., 14/08/2019, In: Envirionmental Research Letters . 14, 8, 11 p., 085013.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  66. 2021
  67. Published

    Flesh and bones: Working with the grain to improve community management of water

    Whaley, L., Cleaver, F. & Mwathunga, E., 1/02/2021, In: World Development. 138, 15 p., 105286.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  68. Published

    Corrigendum to “Flesh and bones: Working with the grain to improve community management of water” [World Dev. 138 (2020) 105286] (World Development (2021) 138, (S0305750X20304137), (10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105286))

    Whaley, L., Cleaver, F. & Mwathunga, E., 1/03/2021, In: World Development. 139, 1 p., 105346.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineComment/debatepeer-review

  69. Published

    Transformations to groundwater sustainability: from individuals and pumps to communities and aquifers

    Zwarteveen, M., Kuper, M., Olmos-Herrera, C., Dajani, M., Kemerink-Seyoum, J., Frances, C., Beckett, L., Lu, F., Kulkarni, S., Kulkarni, H., Aslekar, U., Börjeson, L., Verzijl, A., Dominguez Guzmán, C., Oré, M. T., Leonardelli, I., Bossenbroek, L., Ftouhi, H., Chitata, T. & Hartani, T. & 13 others, Saidani, A., Johnson, M., Peterson, A., Bhat, S., Bhopal, S., Kadiri, Z., Deshmukh, R., Joshi, D., Komakech, H., Joseph, K., Mlimbila, E., De Bont, C. & Cleaver, F., 30/04/2021, In: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 49, p. 88-97 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  70. Published

    Engaging and learning with water infrastructure: Rufaro Irrigation Scheme, Zimbabwe

    Chitata, T., Kemerink-Seyoum, J. & Cleaver, F., 6/10/2021, In: Water Alternatives. 14, 3, p. 690-716 27 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  71. Published

    Worldviews and the everyday politics of community water management

    Cleaver, F., Whaley, L. & Mwathunga, E., 6/10/2021, In: Water Alternatives. 14, 3, p. 645-663 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  72. Published

    Land Degradation in South Africa: Justice and climate change in tension

    Mani, S., Osborne, C. & Cleaver, F., 7/10/2021, In: People and Nature. 3, 5, p. 978-989 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  73. Published

    Towards collective action in ecosystem services governance: The recognition of social interdependencies in three collective agri-environmental initiatives in Quebec

    Zaga-Mendez, A., Bissonnette, J.-F., Kolinjivadi, V., Cleaver, F. & Dupras, J., 31/10/2021, In: Ecosystem Services. 51, 12 p., 101357.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  74. 2022
  75. Published

    A bridge over troubled waters

    Venot, J.-P., Vos, J., Molle, F., Zwarteveen, M., Veldwisch, G. J., Kuper, M., Mdee, A., Ertsen, M., Boelens, R., Cleaver, F., Lankford, B., Swatuk, L., Linton, J., Harris, L. M., Kemerink-Seyoum, J., Kooy, M. & Schwartz, K., 28/02/2022, In: Nature Sustainability. 5, 2, p. 92-92 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineLetterpeer-review

  76. Published

    Unpacking everyday urbanism: Practices and the making of (un)even urban waterscapes

    Rusca, M. & Cleaver, F., 31/03/2022, In: WIREs WATER . 9, 2, e1581.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineReview articlepeer-review

  77. E-pub ahead of print

    Bringing research alive through stories: Reflecting on research storytelling as a public engagement method

    Krauss, J. E., Mani, S., Cromwell, J., San Roman Pineda, I. & Cleaver, F., 20/09/2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Research for All. 6, 1

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  78. 2023
  79. Published

    Knowing Groundwater: Embodied Encounters with a Lively Resource

    Cleaver, F., Chitata, T., de Bont, C., Joseph, K., Börjeson, L. & Kemerink-Seyoum, J., 31/01/2023, In: Water Alternatives. 16, 1, p. 171-192 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  80. Published

    Together Strong or Falling Apart? Coping with COVID-19 in Smallholder Irrigated Agriculture

    Chitata, T., Kemerink-Seyoum, J. S. & Cleaver, F. D., 27/02/2023, In: International Journal of the Commons. 17, 1, p. 87-104 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  81. E-pub ahead of print

    The Adaptive Systemic Approach: Catalysing more just and sustainable outcomes from sustainability and natural resources development research

    Palmer, C., Tanner, J., Akanmu, J., Alamirew, T., Bamutaze, Y., Banadda, N., Cleaver, F., Faye, S., Kabenge, I., Kane, A., Longe, E., Nobert, J., Nsengimana, V., Speight, V., Weston, S., Winter, K. & Woldu, Z., 26/07/2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: River Research and Applications.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  82. Published

    ‘Our humanism cannot be captured in the bylaws’: How moral ecological rationalities and care shape a smallholder irrigation scheme in Zimbabwe

    Chitata, T., Kemerink-Seyoum, J. & Cleaver, F., 1/12/2023, In: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 6, 4, p. 2761 - 2780

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  83. Published

    Capacities for resilience: persisting, adapting and transforming through bricolage

    Haider, L. J. & Cleaver, F., 31/12/2023, In: Ecosystems and People. 19, 1, 2240434.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  84. Published

    Explaining societal change through bricolage: Transformations in regimes of water governance

    Mayaux, P.-L., Dajani, M., Cleaver, F., Naouri, M., Kuper, M. & Hartani, T., 31/12/2023, In: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. 6, 4, p. 2654 -2677 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  85. 2024
  86. Published

    Caring for Groundwater: How Care Can Expand and Transform Groundwater Governance

    Zwarteveen, M., Domínguez-Guzmán, C., Kuper, M., Saidani, A., Kemerink-Seyoum, J., Cleaver, F., Kulkarni, H., Bossenbroek, L., Ftouhi, H., Verzijl, A., Aslekar, U., Kadiri, Z., Chitata, T., Leonardelli, I., Kulkarni, S. & Bhat, S., 26/04/2024, In: International Journal of the Commons. 18, 1, p. 384-396 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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