Publications

Peer reviewed journals

  • González-Mon, B., Cabello, V., Jiménez-Aceituno, A., Mancilla García, M., Castro, A. J., López-Rodríguez, M. D., Moore, M.-L., & Schlüter, M. (2025). Unstable bridges—Exploring the possibilities for “in between” spaces amidst divergent narratives in environmental governance. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-025-01772-x
  • Albert-Fonseca, A., Cabello, V., Furlan, V., Galán, E., Herreros-Cantis, P., Liste, L., Mansur, A. V., Neidig, J., Riada, L. Ó., & Sorman, A. H. 2025. A plea for caring spaces in transformative climate research. PLOS Climate, 4(5), e0000620. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000620
  • Cabello, V. 2024. Tales on co-response-ability in times of environmental polarization. Ecology and Society 29(4):22. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-15662-290422
  • V. Cabello. 2024. Agua, conflicto y transición ecológica. Presentación. Pensamiento al Margen: revista de ideas políticas. 20(1). https://pensamientoalmargen.com/20/01_PaM20_Cabello.pdf
  • Mancilla García, M., V. Cabello Villarejo. 2024. Tres fabulaciones para el Mar Menor: Una perspectiva relacional y procesual sobre los conflictos hídricos para generar transiciones respons-ables. Pensamiento al Margen: revista de ideas políticas. 20(6). https://pensamientoalmargen.com/20/06_PaM20_Mancilla.pdf
  • del Moral, L., V. Cabello Villarejo, Hernandez-Mora, N., Corominas, J., La Calle, A. 2024. Agua, agricultura, mundo rural: desigualdad y transición justa. Pensamiento al Margen: revista de ideas políticas. 20(3). https://pensamientoalmargen.com//20/03_PaM20_Moral.pdf
  • Cabello, V. & M. Brugnach. 2023. Whose Waters, Whose Nutrients? Knowledge, Uncertainty, and Controversy over Eutrophication in the Mar Menor. Ambio 52, pages 1112–1124. 10.100 7/s13280-023-01846-z.
  • Muller, Marc F., Maria Rusca, Leonardo Bertassello, Ellis Adams, Maura Allaire, Violeta Cabello Villarejo, Morgan Levy, Jenia Mukherjee, Yadu Pokhrel. 2023. Mapping the Landscape of Water and Society Research: Promising Combinations of Compatible and Complementary Disciplines. WIREs Water: 10.1002/wat2.1701.
  • Di Felice, L. J., V. Cabello, M. Ripa, C. Madrid-Lopez. 2021. Quantitative Storytelling: Science, Narratives, and Uncertainty in Nexus Innovations. Science, Technology, & Human Values, nov, 01622439211053819. https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439211053819 Open preprint version: https://zenodo.org/record/5670658#.YYz5bruCFH4
  • Cabello, V., Romero, D., Musicki, A., Guimarães, Â., Peñate, B. 2021. Co-creating narratives for WEF nexus governance: a Quantitative Story-Telling case study in the Canary Islands. Sustainability Science. 16, 1363–1374. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-021-00933-y
  • L. del Moral, B. Pedregal, C. Laconi, A. Figueroa, M. Mancilla, V. Cabello. 2020. Monitorización de prácticas de disenso y coproducción de conocimiento: el mapa de los conflictos del agua de Andalucía (España). Estudios Críticos del Desarrollo, volumen X, número 19: 63 – 92. https://doi.org/10.35533/ecd.1019.lm.bp.cl.af.mm.vc
  • Cabello, V., Renner, A., & Giampietro, M. 2019. Relational analysis of the resource nexus in arid land crop production. Advances in Water Resources, 130, 258–269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2019.06.014
  • Serrano-Tovar, T., Peñate Suárez, B., Musicki, A., de la Fuente Bencomo, J. A., Cabello, V., & Giampietro, M. 2019. Structuring an integrated water-energy-food nexus assessment of a local wind energy desalination system for irrigation. Science of The Total Environment, 689, 945–957. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.422
  • Cabello, V., Kovacic, Z., & Van Cauwenbergh, N. 2018. Unravelling narratives of water management: Reflections on epistemic uncertainty in the first cycle of implementation of the Water Framework Directive in southern Spain. Environmental Science & Policy, 85, 19–27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2018.03.019
  • Cabello, V., Willaarts, B. A., Aguilar, M., & del Moral Ituarte, L. 2015. River basins as social-ecological systems: Linking levels of societal and ecosystem water metabolism in a semiarid watershed. Ecology and Society, 20(3). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07778-200320
  • Pedregal B., Cabello V., Hernandez-Mora N., Limones N. and del Moral, L. 2015. Information and knowledge for water governance in the networked society. Water Alternatives 8(2):1-19
  • Hernandez-Mora N., Cabello V., di Stefano, L. and del Moral, L. 2015. Networked water citizen organizations in Spain: Potential for transformation of existing power structures for water management. Water Alternatives 8(2): 99-124
  • Cabello Villarejo, V., & Madrid Lopez, C. 2014. Water use in arid rural systems and the integration of water and agricultural policies in Europe: The case of Andarax river basin. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 16(4), 957–975. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-014-9535-8
  • Madrid, C., Cabello, V., & Giampietro, M. 2013. Water-Use Sustainability in Socioecological Systems: A Multiscale Integrated Approach. BioScience, 63(1), 14–24. https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2013.63.1.6
  • Ravera, F., Scheidel, A., dell’Angelo, J., Gamboa, G., Serrano, T., Mingorría, S., Cabello, V., Arizpe, N., & Ariza, P. 2014. Pathways of rural change: An integrated assessment of metabolic patterns in emerging ruralities. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 16(4), 811–820. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-014-9534-9

Books edited

  • Ester Galende, Alevgul Sorman, Violeta Cabello, Sara Heidenreich, Christian A. Klöckner. 2024. ‘Strengthening European climate policy: Governance recommendations from innovative interdisciplinary collaborations’. Palgrave, London. Open Access.

Book chapters

  • Cabello, V., Merlo, A., Mancilla, M., Siqueiros, J.M., Barandiaran, X.E. (2026). Autonomy and Its Limits in Social-Ecological Systems. In: Barandiaran, X.E., Etxeberria, A. (eds) Outonomy: Fleshing out the Concept of Autonomy Beyond the Individual. SpringerBriefs in Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-05501-9_12
  • Nicolás Gutierrez, Alba Ballester, Violeta Cabello. 2025. A citizen assembly for transitioning the Mar Menor? In, Zaragoza, Soto and Cantero (eds). The history of environmental degradation in the Mar Menor. Routledge, London.
  • Müller Marc F. , Maria Rusca, Ellis Adams, Maura Allaire, Günter Blöschl, Violeta Cabello Villarejo, Marion Dumas, Morgan Levy, Jenia Mukherjee and James Rising. forthcoming. Theoretical Frameworks on Water and Society. In “Coevolution and Prediction of Coupled Human-Water Systems — A Socio-Hydrologic Synthesis of Change in Hydrology and Society”, Eds: F. Tian, J. Wei, M. Haeffner and H. Kreibich, Cambridge University Press.
  • Violeta Cabello Villarejo, Eduardo Serrano. 2024. Abandono y recomposición más allá de los paisajes capitalocénicos, en G. Gatti e I. Rubio-Mengual (eds.), Contar el abandono. Paisajes de un mundo en ruinas, Bellaterra Edicions, Manresa. 978-84-19160-84-3.
  • Cabello Villarejo, V., Zuluaga Guerra, P. 2023. El Mar Menor. Un relato colectivo. En Boj (Ed) Reset Mar Menor. Laboratorio de imaginarios para un paisaje en crisis, pp. 41-45. Bartlebooth, Valencia. 978-84-127165-1-1
  • Violeta Cabello. 2023. La espera en la pérdida ecológica. In Gabriel Gatti, Saioa Olmo Alonso, Alvaro Villar Biale (Eds) Contar la Espera. ZABALDUZ, Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao. ISBN: 978-84-1319-543-8
  • Romero Manrique, D., Cabello V., and Guimarães Pereira, A. Alternative water sources as conflict solver in nexus governance. In The MAGIC Consortium (2020): The Nexus Times. Bergen: Megaloceros Press, Issue XI: Governing the nexus. May 2020. pp. 135-136.
  • Cabello, V., Renner, A. Coupled monitoring of water and agricultural policies: The challenge of indicators. In The MAGIC Consortium (2020): The Nexus Times. Bergen: Megaloceros Press, Issue X: Water-Agriculture Nexus. Sep 2019. pp. 102-104.
  • Ripa, M., Cabello V. Water for energy: quantifying the massive amounts of water that go unaccounted for. In The MAGIC Consortium (2020): The Nexus Times. Bergen: Megaloceros Press, Issue VII: Water-Energy Nexus. Dec 2018. pp. 61-65.
  • Cabello V., Serrano T. What if healthy diets had a hidden cost? In The MAGIC Consortium (2020): The Nexus Times. Bergen: Megaloceros Press, Issue IV: Outsourcing. March 2018. pp. 36-37.
  • Flores Baquero O., Cabello V., Lara García A., Hernández-Mora N., del Moral, L. El debate sobre el Derecho Humano al Agua en España: la experiencia del Pacto Social por el Agua Pública. (2018). In: The struggle for democracy in Spain: grassroots initiatives to defend essential water services as a common good. WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network Special Issue 5(1):68-88. DOI: 10.5072/zenodo.212688
  • Cabello V., Hernandez-Mora N., Serrat-Capdevila A., del Moral L. and Curley, E. 2017. Implications of spatially neutral groundwater management. In Poupeau F., Gupta H., Serrat-Capdevila A., Sans-Fuentes M., Harris S. and Hayde L. (Eds) Water Bankruptcy in the land of plenty. Steps towards a transatlantic and transdisciplinary assessment of water scarcity in Southern Arizona, pp. 291-310
  • Serrat-Capdevila A., Cabello V., Boyanova, K., Poupeau, F., Hernandez-Mora N., Gupta, H., Yang Z., Segura S., Benites E., Yavena R., Coeurdary M. Cortinas J, Khun K., Harris S., Sans M., Curley E., del Moral L., Valdes J., Schneier G., King O., Rodriges D., Salmoral G. 2017. Bringing all the stories together: Beyond the Tucson case study. In Poupeau F., Gupta H., Serrat-Capdevila A., Sans-Fuentes M., Harris S. and Hayde L. (Eds) Water Bankruptcy in the land of plenty. Steps towards a transatlantic and transdisciplinary assessment of water scarcity in Southern Arizona, pp. 401-415.

Policy and literature briefs

Science communication

Outreach and arts-based publications

Agua y Monte: Cartografía colectiva de historias ambientales. Outreach publication of the IntegrateNbS project. Sep
2025.

Interrogando las formas de conocer en las transiciones socioecológicas. Paradigma. Revista Universitaria de Cultura 27, June 2025.

Ecotono(s). Visual Stories to share dialogues on Mar Menor. 2023. Shared Dialogues project. Download ENG, ESP. Art-Science publication exploring visual language to convey affective experiences and conversations about the degradation of the Mar Menor lagoon.

Conversaciones difíciles entre la tierra y el agua. 2023. Sequía y Nuevo Modelo Alimentario. Revista de Soberanía Alimentaria, 47.

El Mar Menor, un relato colectivo. 2022. A story that rebuilds the transformation of the lagoon and its territory over the past 50 years. Collectively written with 15 persons living there. Transformed into creative formats: it can be read, visualized and listened to (in Spanish). Longer description in Spanish & in English blogposts.

Press

La crisis climática es, sobre todo, una crisis social. 2024. The Conversation España.

Un relato colectivo del Mar Menor y el Campo de Cartagena: miramos al pasado para entender lo que vivimos hoy. 2022. The Conversation. Re-published in Climatica.

No me vendan eficiente por sostenible. El Topo Tabernario. Sección ¿Sostenibili-qué? Aug 2017.

Interview in IAgua blog on the Human Right to Water. May 2016.

Radio and podcasts

Entrevista sobre la investigación del Mar Menor en la sección “El punto azul”, de Patricia Fernández de Lis, en Las Tardes de RNE.

El futuro y la crisis climática. 2022. Programa Hágase la luz en Radio Euskadi.

Sendas para la Transición ecológica. 2022. Con Pablo Rodríguez Ros. @SendasPodcast #SendasPodcast.

https://redfilosofia.es/laboratorio/2022/02/15/participacion-ciudadana-y-conflictos-ambientales/Participación ciudadana y conflictos ambientales. 2022. Conversatorio con María Mancilla y Juanma Zaragoza.

De la ciencia antigua a la búsqueda conjunta de la desconocida poesía de lo emocional. 2019. El Paseo, con Oscar Flores.

#MarMenor selection

El Mar Menor, un relato colectivo. 2022. A story that rebuilds the transformation of the lagoon and its territory over the past 50 years. Collectively written with 15 persons living there. Transformed into creative formats: it can be read, visualized and listened to (in Spanish). Longer description in Spanish & in English blogposts.

Cabello, V. & M. Brugnach. 2023. Whose Waters, Whose Nutrients? Knowledge, Uncertainty, and Controversy over Eutrophication in the Mar Menor. Ambio 52, pages 1112–1124. 10.100 7/s13280-023-01846-z.

Ecotono(s). Visual Stories to share dialogues on Mar Menor. 2023. Shared Dialogues project. Download ENG, ESP. Art-Science publication exploring visual language to convey affective experiences and conversations about the degradation of the Mar Menor lagoon.

Violeta Cabello Villarejo, Eduardo Serrano. 2024. Abandono y recomposición más allá de los paisajes capitalocénicos, en G. Gatti e I. Rubio-Mengual (eds.), Contar el abandono. Paisajes de un mundo en ruinas, Bellaterra Edicions, Manresa. 978-84-19160-84-3.

Cabello, V. 2024. Tales on co-response-ability in times of environmental polarization. Ecology and Society 29(4):22. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-15662-290422

Mancilla García, M., V. Cabello Villarejo. 2024. Tres fabulaciones para el Mar Menor: Una perspectiva relacional y procesual sobre los conflictos hídricos para generar transiciones respons-ables. Pensamiento al Margen: revista de ideas políticas. 20(6). https://pensamientoalmargen.com/20/06_PaM20_Mancilla.pdf

González-Mon, B., Cabello, V., Jiménez-Aceituno, A., Mancilla García, M., Castro, A. J., López-Rodríguez, M. D., Moore, M.-L., & Schlüter, M. (2025). Unstable bridges—Exploring the possibilities for “in between” spaces amidst divergent narratives in environmental governance. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-025-01772-x