Publications

Peer reviewed journals

  • 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
  • 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

Book chapters

  • 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.

Conference proceedings

  • Cabello V. 2023. Analizando el dilema de la contaminación difusa en el Mar Menor. XII Congreso Ibérico de Gestión y Planificación de las Aguas. Murcia, 26-28 enero 2023, Spain.
  • Matthews, K.B. , Blackstock, K.L., Waylen, K.A., Juarez-Bourke, A., Rivington, M., Miller, D.G., Wardell-Johnson, D., Cabello, V., Kovacic, Z., Renner, A.F., Ripa, M., Giampietro, M. 2019. Using deliberative societal metabolism analysis to analyse CAP’s delivery of EU sustainability and climate change objectives. 172nd EAAE Seminar, May 28-29, 2019, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Laconi, C., Figueroa, A., Pedregal, B., Cabello, V., Mancilla, M. del Moral, L. 2019. “La presencia del paisaje en el Mapa digital colaborativo de los conflictos del agua en Andalucía”, en 22 reunión del Taller del Consejo de Europa para la implementación del Convenio del Paisaje del Consejo de Europa y Congreso Internacional “Agua, paisaje y ciudadanía ante el Cambio Global”, 14,15 y 16 de marzo, 2019. http://tallerycongreso.
  • Cabello V., Kovacic, Z., Völker, T., Guimarais Pereira, A., Krol, M. Matthews, K., Blackstock, K. 2018. ¿Qué historias cuentan sobre la Directiva Marco del Agua? X Iberian Iberian Congress of Water Management and Planning. 6-8 September, Coimbra, Portugal.
  • Pedregal, B., Laconi, C., Figueroa, A. Cabello, V., Mancilla, M., del Moral, L. 2018. Mapa digital colaborativo de la justicia ambiental en el agua. Planteamientos conceptuales y debates en las primeras etapas de su desarrollo operativo. X Iberian Iberian Congress of Water Management and Planning. 6-8 September, Coimbra, Portugal.
  • B. Pedregal, C. Laconi, M. Mancilla, G. Orozco, A. Figueroa, V. Cabello, J.R. Raposo, L. Del Moral. 2017. Collaborative mapping of water conflicts in Andalusia, Spain. OPEN SCIENCE CONFERENCE PECS II. OAXACA CITY MEXICO. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.23659.03369
  • Cabello V. 2017. Quantitative Story Telling: Initial steps towards bridging perspectives and tools for a robust nexus assessment. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 19:16480. 23-28 April, Viena, Austria.
  • Cabello Villarejo V., Flores Baquero O., Lara García A., del Moral Ituarte L., Paneque Salgado P., Vargas Molina J., de la Lastra Valdor I. 2016. ¿Qué firman cuando dicen Pacto Social por el Agua Pública? Implicaciones conceptuales para su seguimiento a su implantación. IX Iberian Iberian Congress of Water Management and Planning. 7-9 september, Valencia, Spain.
  • Hernández-Mora N., Cabello V., De Stefano L., Del Moral L. 2016. Redes ciudadanas por una Nueva Cultural del Agua: Potencial de Transformación de las estructuras de poder existentes en la gestión del agua. IX Iberian Iberian Congress of Water Management and Planning. 7-9 september, Valencia, Spain
  • Del Moral Ituarte L., Cabello Villarejo V., de la Lastra Valdor I., Flores Baquero O., Lara García A., Paneque Salgado P., Vargas Molina J. 2016. Megaproyectos y estrategias alternativas para el ciclo urbano del agua: el caso del sistema de abastecimiento de Sevilla (España). IX Iberian Iberian Congress of Water Management and Planning. 7-9 September, Valencia, Spain
  • Madrid López C., V. Cabello, Z. Kovacic. 2013. Analizando el metabolismo hídrico de los socio-ecosistemas: fundamentos teóricos y metodológicos. VIII Iberian Congress of Water Management and Planning. 5-7 December, Lisbon, Portugal.

Reports and project deliverables

Science communication

Outreach publications

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.

Policy briefs

Reclaimed water for agriculture. The case of the Canary Islands. 2018. http://www.magic-nexus.eu/documents/reclaimed-water-agriculture-case-canary-islands

Solving water problems or creating new ones? The use of alternative water resources for irrigation presents a number of challenges that require further attention from European policies. 2020. http://www.magic-nexus.eu/documents/solving-water-problems-or-creating-new-ones

Press

Un relato colectivo del Mar Menor y el Campo de Cartagena: miramos al pasado para entender lo que vivimos hoy. https://theconversation.com/un-relato-colectivo-del-mar-menor-y-el-campo-de-cartagena-miramos-al-pasado-para-entender-lo-que-vivimos-hoy-186966v

Re-published in Climatica https://www.climatica.lamarea.com/relato-mar-menor-campo-cartagena/

El Topo Tabernario. Sección ¿Sostenibili-qué? Aug 2017. No me vendan eficiente por sostenible http://eltopo.org/no-me-vendan-eficiente-por-sostenible/

Interview in IAgua blog on the Human Right to Water. May 2016. https://www.iagua.es/blogs/jorge-castaneda-pastor/materializacion-derecho-al-agua-dependera-como-siempre-movilizacion

Podcasts

El futuro y la crisis climática. 2022. Programa Hágase la luz en Radio Euskadi. https://www.eitb.eus/es/radio/radio-euskadi/programas/hagase-la-luz/audios/detalle/9039711/audio-hoy-en-radio-euskadi-cientifica-violeta-cabello-en-eh2050-como-afectara-crisis-climatica/

Sendas para la Transición ecológica. 2022. Con Pablo Rodríguez Ros. @SendasPodcast #SendasPodcast. https://open.spotify.com/show/0Xmh86iVifNCS0BVQnWBii

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

De la ciencia antigua a la búsqueda conjunta de la desconocida poesía de lo emocional. 2019. El Paseo. https://www.ivoox.com/140-de-ciencia-antigua-a-busqueda-conjunta-audios-mp3_rf_45472315_1.html