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To the Editor — In a recent (August 2021) Editorial1, the editors of Nature Sustainability argue that little innovative research seems to emerge in water studies. They invite the community to reinvent what they see as a ‘stagnant’ field. Central to their argument is the statement that “water studies as a field may have largely given up on historical context and institutional change … as [it] has become more quantified and technically driven, it has also become less grounded”.
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Jean-Philippe Venot & François Molle
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