On 1 December 2025, Daniele Rossi Doria will defend his PhD thesis investigating Water User Associations (WUA) as instruments to decentralize water management, promote farmers’ participation and reduce irrigation system maintenance costs in rural Morocco.
- PhD student
- Date
- Monday 1 Dec 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
- Type
- PhD defence
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Aula B
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
Rossi Doria investigates how local farmers appropriate or reject WUAs and how local communities reshape and repurpose WUA through micro-level negotiation and institutional bricolage processes.
He argues that when accepted by farmers locally, WUAs may support a wide range of community-based needs and may become significant innovation platforms.
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Doctoral Board
Chair
Doctoral dissertation supervisors
- Professor Peter Knorringa
- Dr Sylvia Bergh
- Dr Kees Biekart
Full Doctoral Committee
- Professor Frances Cleaver, Lancaster University
- Dr Marcel Kuper, CIRAD
- Professor Margreet Zwarteveen, IHE Delft
- Professor Shuaib Lwasa, ISS
- Dr Farhad Mukhtarov, ISS
- More information
The Public Defence will take place on Monday, 1 December 2025 in the ISS auditorium (Aula B) and the ceremony will begin promptly at 15:30 hrs. The doors will be closed at the start of the Public Defence.
Children below the age of 7 are not allowed in the auditorium during the first part of the ceremony.
The ceremony will be followed by a reception in the Atrium of the ISS.
Professors are invited to join the academic procession.
- Related links
- ISS PhD programme
