Messaoudi-Mattei Imane
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Imane Messaoudi-Mattei is currently a senior research associate at the Institute for Environmental Sciences. She holds a PhD in geography from Paris Nanterre University (France) and from University of Fribourg (Switzerland). Imane is part of the Geneva Water Hub (GWH) where she works on critical discourses analysis in transboundary water management. She’s also in charge of organizing the GWH’s annual summer school on water governance. |
Research
Her work consists on exploring, within the framework of research anchored in social sciences, the issues of access, use and management of water (and land) resources around the world. Her work is at the crossroads of the fields of critical agrarian studies and political ecology, and contributes more generally to the development studies. Prior to that, Imane worked as an agronomist engineer specializing in the economic and social development of rural areas. Her research work has mainly focused on irrigation practices, on the sustainability of rural areas, the interdependencies between rural spaces and urban spaces, and more generally on the analysis of agricultural and environmental policies in semi-arid countries. She has also occasionally participated in several international research projects (notably on the governance of groundwater management, and on issues of food security and sovereignty in the MENA region).
Interests
Transboundary water governance and management; Conflicts over water, conflicts through water: tensions, power relations, and analysis of actors' discourses, ideals and practices; Access, governance and management of water and land resources; Analysis of the functioning and evolution of "water territories"; "Overexploitation" of water resources and sustainability of agricultural production systems; Analysis of agricultural and environmental policies.
Publications
Dr Imane Messaoudi-Mattei
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