Just Water Governance & Finance

Co-creation, participation, citizen science, innovative finance, water justice, right to access to water

Research groups

• Urban Development 

• EnvEcon 

• CRESC 

• Law and Development 

Key experts

• ​Tine Compernolle​
  

• ​Tom Coppens

• ​Ann Crabbé​

• ​Koen De Feyter
• ​Sara Geenen​
• Ilse Loots
• ​Bossissi Nkuba​

Selected projects

• SOLARIS focuses on climate change adaptation policies, and on how they take into account the link between floods and socio-spatial inequalities. 

• INNOFINS studies the utilisation potential of innovative financing models in the Flemish context by developing real life business cases of Nature-Based Solutions, using new instruments such as impact financing, value capturing and ICO-crowd funding. 

• TransformAr: Accelerating and upscaling transformational adaptation in Europe: demonstration of water-related innovation packages

• STAR-FLOOD aimed to analyse, evaluate and improve policies to better deal with the increased flood risks under climate change.

• The Right to Water and Sanitation: Localising Human Rights Working Paper Series explores the right to water and sanitation from a Human Rights Based Approach 

• WATERRUSH: Uneven, unsafe and insufficient water access: resource governance in a mineral rush.