Papers and proceedings

  • Ahlers, R. & Zwarteveen, M. (2007) “The Water Question in Feminism: Water control and gender inequities in a neo-liberal era”. Paper presented at the Global Perspectives on Gender- Water Geographies Session at the Association for American Geographers Annual Meeting 2007, San Francisco April 2007.

  • Ahlers R. (2005) Stickiness of territory and fluidity of water: entitlement structures to water in the age of contemporary globalisation. The case of neo-liberal water reforms in Mexico. PhD Dissertation, Cornell University, Ithaca.

  • Ahlers, R. (2005) “Empowering or Disempowering: The Gender Dimensions of neoliberal Water Policy in Mexico and Bolivia.” In: Bennet, V., S. Davila-Poblete & M. Nieves Rico (eds) Opposing Currents: The Policy of Water and Gender in Latin America. Pittsburg University Press, Pittsburg.

  • Ahlers, R. (2002) Moving In or Staying Out: Gender Dimensions of Water Markets in a Mexican Irrigation District. In: Managing a Sacred Gift: The Privatization of Water Rights in Mexico. Eds. R. Melville & S. Whiteford. UCSD: Transformation of Rural Mexico Series, San Diego, USA.

  • Ahlers, R. (2000) Indirect Access and Informal Networks: Gender Issues in Irrigation, a Latin American Overview. In: Tortujada, C. (ed.) Women and Water Management: The Latin American Experience. Pp203-216 Open University Press, New Delhi.

  • Ahlers, R. (2000) Determinarán las Relaciones de Género el Futuro de la Agricultura Regada? Relaciones de Género y Mercados de Agua. In: Buechler and Zapata (eds) Anduve Detras de Todo a la Corre y Corre…Género y Manejo del Agua y Tierra en Comunidades Rurales de México. IWMI Serie Latinoamericana: no.14. pp.157-175.

  • Ahlers, R. & M. Endeveld (1992) (eds.) Geslachtsverhoudingen in de Landbouw: Theoretische Benaderingen.(Gender Relations in Agriculture: Theoretical Approaches) Reader, Wageningen Agriculture University, The Netherlands.

  • Ahlers, R. & D. Ridder (2008) The social dimensions of IWRM: Where does inequality fit in? Chapter 10 in J. Timmerman, C. Pahl-Wostl, J. Moltgen (Eds) Adaptiveness of IWRM: Analysing European IWRM research. London: IWA publishing.

  • Ahlers, R. & E.Rymshaw. (1998) “La política en la practica: Mercados de agua en cuatro distritos de riego en México.” In: Vélez, E. P.; Garcia, A. E.; Panta, J. E. R.; Saenz, E. M. (Eds.), III Seminario Internacional Transferencia de los Sistemas de Riego, Montecillo, México, Septiembre de 1998, pp.195-202.

  • Ahlers, R. & S. Vlaar (1995) Up to the Sky: A Study on Gender Issues in Irrigation in Cambodia in the Provinces of Takeo and Prey Veng. SAWA. Ede, The Netherlands.

  • Fortis, M & R. Ahlers (1999) Naturaleza y Extension del Mercado de Agua en el D.R. 017 de la Comarca Lagunera, Mexico. IWMI Serie Latinoamericana: No. 10, Mexico.

  • Gonzalez, J.L, Job, J.O. & R. Ahlers (2002) Irrigation et salininsation des sols dans la partie basse aride du bassin Nazas aguanaval: le périmetre de la Comarca Lagunera (Nord Mexique). Secheresse 13 (4) 244-250.

  • Vlaar S. & R. Ahlers (1998) Gender Blind or Gender Bright Targeting of Development Interventions: Reflections from Cambodia. In: Guijt I & M. Shiva (eds.) Myth of community. IED, Oxford, U.K.

Conference papers

  • Ahlers, R. (2006) Security of tenure in the age of Neoliberalism: The Case of a Mexican Irrigation District. Paper presented at the International Conference ‘Land Policies, Poverty, Social Justice and Development’ at the Institute for Social Studies in The Hague 9-14 January 2006.

  • Ahlers, R. & M. Zwarteveen (2006) “The Water Question in Feminism.” Paper presented at the International Conference ‘Land Policies, Poverty, Social Justice and Development’ at the Institute for Social Studies in The Hague 9-14 January 2006.

  • Ahlers R. (2005) “Escasez, Eficiencia y Economía: Palabras Vacías, Políticas Neoliberales y Problemas de Desposesión. Un caso de estudio de reforma política de agua en un distrito de riego en México.” Paper presented at the Encuentro por una Nueva Cultura de Agua en America Latina in Fortaleza, Brazil 5-10 december 2005.

  • Ahlers R. (2005) “From Increasing Participation to Establishing Rights: Evading the gender question in Water Resources Management.” Paper presented at the EMPOWERS Regional Symposium: End Users Ownership and Involvement in IWRM in Cairo 13-17th November 2005.

  • Ahlers, R. (2002) “From tied hands to empty hands: the catch 22 of entitlement. A debate on gender, power and water rights.” Paper presented at the 2002 Conference on Feminist Economics, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California. July 12-14, 2002.

  • Ahlers, R. ( (2002) “Rural Livelihoods and Gender Relations: A Precarious Balancing Act in Contemporary Cambodia.” Paper presented at the 3nd Annual WARI Gender & Southeast Asia (Indochina) Conference, Bangkok March 1-3, 2002.

  • Ahlers, R. (1999) “Dynamic or Dynamite: Water Marketing in the Comarca Lagunera, Mexico.” Paper presented at the conference: The Environment of Greater Mexico: History, Culture, Economy, and Politics. March 5-6, San Diego.

  • Ahlers, R. & M. Fortis (1999) “Water markets and Water Scarcity: Shifting Attention from Supply to Demand.” Paper presented at the International Symposium on Integrated Water Management in Agriculture, June 16-18, Gomez Palacios, Mexico.