Publications
Recent Publications
Chapter in book
- Gender Mainstreaming and Gender Transformative Approaches: Assessing Progress and Potential in Water Diplomacy, Francesca Greco; in Islam, S., Smith, K., Klimes, M., & Salzberg, A. (Eds.). (2025). Routledge Handbook of Water Diplomacy. Taylor & Francis, 20th September 2025
Link to repository: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Water-Diplomacy/Islam-Smith-Klimes-Salzberg/p/book/9781032013893 ( full open access)
Foreseen in December 2025
Paper in Special Issue
- Gender and water in Italy: women’s role in the water sector – Preliminary review and framework’ , Francesca Greco.
The paper will be included on the 4th of December 2025 in the volume Challenging the usual: Water assessments with a gender perspective.
The volume will be published in open access under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 3.0 IGO license and will be distributed through various channels in both print and electronic formats. The digital version, which will be stored in the UNESCO Open Access Repository (UNESDOC), will be available for download from the organization's website.
Past Publications
SCIENTIFIC COORDINATION AND DESIGN OF INSTITUTIONAL PUBLICATIONS:
FOR UNESCO World Water Assessment Programme ( WWAP)
First edition of the UN WWAP UNESCO TOOLKIT FOR SEX-DISAGGREGATED WATER MONITORING, ASSESSEMENT AND REPORTING ( 4 volumes )
1) guidelines on how to collect Sex disaggregated indicators for water assessment, monitoring and reporting
2) Sex Disaggregated indicators for water monitoring assessment and reporting
3) Questionnaire for collecting sex-disaggregated water data
4) Overview of resources of gender senisitive data related to water
PEER REVIEWED PAPERS
The Disi project: an internal/external analysis, Water International, Jan 1, 2008
A development pathway to optimise sustainability of water investment and minimise social cost
Tapping environmental history to recreate America's colonial hydrology Environmental science & technology, 2010
Tony Allan: a magic toolbox of theoretical frameworks, a never-ending story
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
The Social-Environmental Justice of Groundwater Governance, in Integrated Groundwater Management, 2016
Aware Eaters of Water: An Idea for Water Labelling in The Water We Eat 2015
Una nuova visione dello spreco d’acqua in "Il libro nero dello spreco d'acqua in Italia". 2013
INVITED PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS
Hydro-hegemony and Hydropolitical Complexes: A Preliminary Assessment of the West African Case
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Greenhouse irrigation or tunnelled irrigation
An irrigation system which does not use rain: only withdrawals, is also called a blue-water intensive and green-water zero system. Typical of Mediterranean coastal zones such as Almeria, South of Sicily, Greece, and Nort Africa Coastal plains.
Contract Farming
When intermediaries decide the price of your tomatoes, sometimes is it not worth to harvest. Contract-farming is reducing the income generation of producers who are pushed to produce more with more fertilizers and more pesticides, at the detriment of water quality.
Intermediaries in food trade
The price of crops at the supermarket and those offered to farmers are disproportionately different at the detriment of farmers and only benefit the big retailers such as the supermarkets and their intermediaries.
