Expertise Areas

Water Governance; Water Justice; Water Rights

Brief Bio

Dr. Gabriela Cuadrado Quesada is a Senior Lecturer/Researcher of Water Rights and Justice at IHE Delft, which she joined in 2017. Her research and teaching activities focus on the legal and institutional dimensions of water at both the local and national levels, the role of community organisations in using legal instruments to promote environmental justice and sustainable use of water, the connections between community water practices and legal instruments, the relations between environmental destruction, food production and water pollution as well as the linkages between international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international refugee law.

Prior to joining IHE Delft, Gabriela was a PhD fellow at the University of New South Wates (UNSW), Sydney Australia. Her doctoral research focusses on groundwater governance looking in particular at how the design and implementation of legal frameworks shape groundwater governance in practice; and how and to what law and practice extend are interwoven.

Additionally, she has extensive experience working for various non-governmental organizations in Costa Rica and India and as an environmental litigator in Costa Rica.

Gabriela holds a MSc in Water and Coastal Management and Environmental and Infrastructure Planning from the University of Oldenburg (Germany) and the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). She also holds a MA in Human Rights and Education for Peace from the National University of Costa Rica. She obtained her Law Degree at the University of Costa Rica.

Publications (Weblink only), if any:

• https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iLu_PJwAAAAJ&hl=es