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HWISE-RCN Early Career Collaborative
We are excited to announce that we are formally launching the HWISE-RCN Early Career Collaborative under the leadership of Dr. Alexandra Brewis-Slade. The Early Career Collaborative seeks to connect early-career scholars with mentorship within the RCN to help further their career goals. We are asking that those interested reply to this Google Form by May 15. It is our hope to have the inaugural meeting at the end of the month of May.
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HWISE-RCN Research Hubs
We are currently working on rolling out the HWISE-RCN Research Hubs on the HWISE website. We are asking that all HWISE-RCN members let us know their interest in being a part of the research hubs by filling out this Google Form to let us know which hub they would like to be a member of and about any on-going projects, publications, or collaborations that they are apart of that relate to the hubs.
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Community Announcements
We would like to extend a belated congratulations to Dr. Ellis Adjei Adams, a member of the HWISE-RCN Steering Committee, for receiving the 2020 Distinguished Emerging Scholar Award in African Geography from the Africa Specialty Group (American Association of Geographers)!
Additionally, we would like to congratulate Dr. Katie Meehan on becoming a PI for "Homelessness and Water Insecurity in London!" This is a pilot study funded by the Faculty Research Fund, King's College London, April-December 2020.
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Scholarly Updates
Ongoing HWISE-related projects (many using the HWISE data set) include analyses of water conflict (Amber Pearson); water sharing (Asher Rosinger and Amber Wutich); injuries (Vidya Venkataramanan); water economics and sociotechnology (Chad Staddon); gender and intersectionality (Leila Harris); gender-based violence (Stroma Cole); urbanism, piped water schemes, and intermittency (Wendy Jepson); and population and environmental factors, including migration (Justin Stoler). Please reach out to the respective project lead if you have questions or are interested in contributing. To propose a new analysis using HWISE survey data, please use the project proposal form on the RCN web site.
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Opportunities
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS IN JEMA SPECIAL ISSUE: The Guest Editors of a special issue in the Journal of Environmental Management (JEMA) are calling for more submissions before the end of May. The special issue is titled "Remediation and Society." JEMA is an international journal that publishes interdisciplinary articles on a number of cross-cutting environmental themes (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-environmental-management). The special issue “Remediation and Society” gathers papers that specifically use social science theories and/or methods and address one or more of the following goals: (1) Explain how the public and government agencies engage throughout cleanup processes (2) Understand the decision making processes involved in environmental cleanups (3) Interrogate the vulnerabilities and inequalities that environmental contamination and/or hazardous waste streams produce by grounding the discussion in real-world case studies (4) Discuss issues of "how clean is clean" and stigma related to contaminated sites. Example article themes include environmental justice, disaster cleanup, hazardous waste, superfund sites, case studies, public engagement, and institutional frameworks. To submit, go to https://ees.elsevier.com/jema/default.asp, create an author account, and follow the author guidelines for submitting a paper. Select “VSI: Remediation and Society” as the article type. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Brittany Kiessling.
CALL FOR PAPERS IN SPECIAL ISSUE: The Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis is calling for papers for their Special Issue on COVID-19. The special issue aims to facilitate a comparative outlook on the ways through which governments around the globe draw on street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) as the front lines of addressing the pandemic. They call for papers that contribute to the understanding of the new ascribed roles for SLBs and new constrains created for SLBs during the crisis, as determined by the frameworks of states’ policies, both in terms of SLB as a profession and as individuals. The role of SLB will be explored with regards to central aspects of SLB work, that is, discretion, professionalism, action imperative and working in under-resourced environments. They also seek to examine less studied aspects such as exposure to risks and protection from risks and how the state perceives and acts on risks. More information can be found about the special issue and how-to submit here.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS IN SPECIAL ISSUE- Dr. Martina A Caretta, West Virginia University, and Dr. Ruth Morgan, Monash University, are calling for submissions for a special issue of the journal Climate and Development. They are inviting indigenous scholars and scholars writing with indigenous communities to contribute pieces on their experiences on climate change adaptation in relation to water-related hazards e.g. floods, droughts, heavy precipitations, glacier melting, and in the water sector through agriculture, energy, WASH, mobility, freshwater ecosystems both in urban, peri-urban and rural areas all across the globe. They are calling for not only successful adaptations but failed to draw out the enabling principles of successful adaption in the water sector. If you would like more information or would like to submit, please visit https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/indigenous-knowledge-for-climate-adaptation-in-the-water-sector/?utm_source=CPB&utm_medium=cms&utm_campaign=JPA12868#. They are asking for submissions by May 15, 2020.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS- The new Water and Society series will showcase synthetic treatments and case studies based in both lower and higher-income countries as the growing challenges of water insecurity are faced in both. Similarly, innovative and important solutions will come from a variety of places and perspectives. Those new to book writing can expect -- if desired -- significant mentoring support from the editorial team as they develop their proposal, navigate contracting and complete their vision. We are currently working with several exciting projects and seek to expand our portfolio. While this is a new series, just started in 2019, we hope that this will be a transformative set of work in the years to come! If you have an idea for a monograph, please contact any one of us for more information. Email Dr. Wendy Jepson (Texas A&M University), wjepson@tamu.edu, Dr. Amber Wutich (Arizona State University), amber.wutich@asu.edu or Dr. Alexandra Brewis (Arizona State University), alex.brewis@asu.edu.
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Job Announcements
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Justice. Rice University - Humanities Research Center. Apply here.
- Postdoctoral Research Associate. School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) at the University of Michigan. Apply here.
- Lecturer in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy Management. UC Berkeley. Apply here.
- Postdoctoral Fellow. Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. Apply here.
- Postdoctoral Fellow II. WATS. Colorado River Basin. Utah State University. Apply here.
- Research Specialist. Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign. Apply here.
- Dean of the Don B. Huntley College of Agriculture. California State Polytechnic University. Apply here.
- Faculty Position in Smart and Sustainable Natural Resource and Civil and Environmental Infrastructure Systems. UCLA. Apply here.
- Postdoctoral Scholar (focus on institutional analysis and environmental governance). Syracuse University. Apply here.
- Adjunct faculty - Lecturer of Water Quality Management. Colorado Mesa University. Apply here.
- Assistant Professor in Soil Water Quality. Oregon State University. Apply here.
- Getches-Wilkinson Center Water Fellows. University of Colorado Law School. Apply here.
- Harte Research Institute Endowed Chair, Biodiversity, and Conservation. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Apply here.
- Assistant Professor of Earth Science. The University of Indianapolis. Apply here.
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2020 HWISE Community Publications
- New Publications
- Brewis, A. B. Piperata, A. Thompson, A. Wutich. Localizing resource insecurities: A biocultural perspective on water and wellbeing. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews – Water. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1440
- Mitra, R. (2020). Opinion | How to ensure water security and beat coronavirus in Michigan. Bridge Magazine. https://www.bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-how-ensure-water-security-and-beat-coronavirus-michigan
- Mesmer, K., Aniss, M., & Mitra, R. (2020). Naturalizing environmental injustice: How privileged residents make sense of Detroit’s water shutoffs. In C. Schmitt, C.S. Thomas, & T.R. Castor (Eds.)., Water, rhetoric and social justice: A critical confluence. Lexington Books.
- Raul Pacheco-Vega (2020) “Using Ethnography in Comparative Policy Analysis: Premises, Promises and Perils.” In B. G. Peters & G. Fontaine (Eds.), Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Comparative Policy Analysis (pp. 308–328). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Roque, A. D., Pijawka, D., & Wutich, A. The Role of Social Capital in Resiliency: Disaster Recovery in Puerto Rico. Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy. https://doi.org/10.1002/rhc3.12187
- Takahashi, B., Adams, E. A., & Nissen, J. (2020). The Flint water crisis: local reporting, community attachment, and environmental justice. Local Environment, 1-16.
- Wutich, A., DeMyers, C., C. Bausch, D. White, A. Sullivan. (2020) Stakeholders and Social Influence in a Shadow Network: Implications for Transitions toward Urban Water Sustainability in the Colorado River Basin. Ecology and Society. 25(1):28.
- 2020 Publications in Past Newsletters
- Adams, E. A., Stoler, J., & Adams, Y. (2020). Water insecurity and urban poverty in the Global South: Implications for health and human biology. American Journal of Human Biology, e23368.
- Adnew Degefu, M., Assen, M., Satyal, P., & Budds, J. (2019). Villagization and access to water resources in the Middle Awash Valley of Ethiopia: implications for climate change adaptation. Climate and Development, 1-12.
- Beresford, M. (2020). Entrepreneurship as legacy building: Reimagining the economy in post‐apartheid South Africa. Economic Anthropology.
- Boateng, G. O., Okoye, D., Amoyaw, J., & Luginaah, I. (2020). Six decades after independence: the enduring influence of missionary activities on regional wealth inequalities in Ghana. Journal of Economic Geography, 20(1), 93-122.
- Butler, L. M., Bhandari, S., Otieno, P., Weiser, S. D., Cohen, C. R., & Frongillo, E. A. (2020). Agricultural and finance intervention increased dietary intake and weight of children living in HIV-affected households in western Kenya. Current Developments in Nutrition.
- Choudhary, N., Schuster, R., Brewis, A., & Wutich, A. (2020). Water insecurity potentially undermines dietary diversity of children aged 6–23 months: Evidence from India. Maternal & Child Nutrition, e12929.
- Cole, S., & Tulis, M. I. (2020). For the worry of water: Water, women and tourism in Labuan Bajo. Initial policy paper.
- Dery, F., Bisung, E., Dickin, S., & Dyer, M. (2019). Understanding empowerment in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH): a scoping review. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development.
- Everard, M., Loayza Muro, R., Bunclark, L., & Taboada, R. (2020). Comparative analysis of hybridized solutions to water resources management in Burkina Faso, India and Peru. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 1-24.
- Farhana Sultana (2020): Embodied Intersectionalities of Urban Citizenship:
- Gonzalez, A., Germain, R. M., Srivastava, D. S., Filotas, E., Dee, L. E., Gravel, D., ... & Montoya, J. (2020). Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research. Ecology Letters.
- Harris, L. M. (2020). Assessing states: Water service delivery and evolving state–society relations in Accra, Ghana and Cape Town, South Africa. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 38(2), 290-311.
- Hope, R., Thomson, P., Koehler, J., & Foster, T. (2020). Rethinking the economics of rural water in Africa. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 36(1), 171-190.
- John, J., Baek, J., Roh, T., Cabrera-Conner, L., & Carrillo, G. (2020). Regional Disparity in Asthma Prevalence and Distribution of Asthma Education Programs in Texas. Journal of Environmental and Public Health, 2020.
- Kangmennaang, J., Bisung, E., & Elliott, S. J. (2020). ‘We Are Drinking Diseases’: Perception of Water Insecurity and Emotional Distress in Urban Slums in Accra, Ghana. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(3), 890.
- Lartey, S. T., Si, L., Otahal, P., de Graaff, B., Boateng, G. O., Biritwum, R. B., ... & Palmer, A. J. (2020). Annual transition probabilities of overweight and obesity in older adults: Evidence from World Health Organization Study on global AGEing and adult health. Social Science & Medicine, 112821.
- Lawhon, M., & Truelove, Y. (2020). Disambiguating the southern urban critique: Propositions, pathways and possibilities for a more global urban studies. Urban Studies, 57(1), 3-20.
- Mitryasova, O., Pohrebennyk, V., & Staddon, C. (2020). The Political Ecology of Shale Gas Exploitation in Ukraine. In Regulating Water Security in Unconventional Oil and Gas (pp. 197-217). Springer.
- Molden, O. (2019). Water Heritage and Urban Development: Lessons from Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley. Journal of Heritage Management, 4(2), 176-191.
- Pacheco-Vega, R. (2019). Human right to water and bottled water consumption: Governing at the intersection of water justice, rights and ethics. In Water Politics (pp. 113-128). Routledge.
- Pauloo, R., Escriva-Bou, A., Dahlke, H., Fencl, A., Guillon, H., & Fogg, G. (2020). Domestic well vulnerability to drought duration and unsustainable groundwater management in California's Central Valley. Environmental Research Letters.
- Piperata, B. A., Lee, S., Mayta Apaza, A. C., Cary, A., Vilchez, S., Oruganti, P., ... & Lee, J. (2020). Characterization of the gut microbiota of Nicaraguan children in a water insecure context. American Journal of Human Biology, e23371.
- Piperata, B. A., Lee, S., Mayta Apaza, A. C., Cary, A., Vilchez, S., Oruganti, P., ... & Lee, J. (2020). Characterization of the gut microbiota of Nicaraguan children in a water insecure context. American Journal of Human Biology, e23371.
- Piperata, B. A., Salazar, M., Schmeer, K. K., & Herrera Rodríguez, A. (2020). Tranquility is a child with a full belly: Pathways linking food insecurity and maternal mental distress in Nicaragua. Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 59(1), 79-103.
- Schuster, R. C., Butler, M. S., Wutich, A., Miller, J. D., Young, S. L., & Household Water Insecurity Experiences‐Research Coordination Network (HWISE‐RCN). (2020). “If there is no water, we cannot feed our children”: The far‐reaching consequences of water insecurity on infant feeding practices and infant health across 16 low‐and middle‐income countries. American Journal of Human Biology, e23357.
- Smiley, S.L., and Stoler, J. (2020). Socio-environmental confounders of safe water interventions. WIREs Water. doi:10.1002/wat2.1438.
- Staddon, C., Buono, R. M., Gunn, E. L., & McKay, J. (2020). Regulating Water Security in Unconventional Oil and Gas: Common Challenges, Trade-Offs, and Best Practices from Around the Globe. In Regulating Water Security in Unconventional Oil and Gas (pp. 397-418). Springer.
- Staddon, C., Buono, R., Lopez-Gunn, E., & McKay, J. (2020). Introduction: Regulating Water Security in Unconventional Hydrocarbon Production: An Introduction. Springer (part of Springer Nature).
- Stoler, J., Pearson, A. L., Staddon, C., Wutich, A., Mack, E., Brewis, A., ... & Balogun, M. (2019). Cash water expenditures are associated with household water insecurity, food insecurity, and perceived stress in study sites across 20 low-and middle-income countries. Science of The Total Environment, 135881.
- Toromo, A. K., Ucakuwun, E. K., & Kipkorir, E. C. (2020). Perception and Adoption of Famers to Soil and Water Conservation Practices in Upper Turkwel Watershed in Kenya. Africa Environmental Review Journal, 3(2), 77-89.
- Tuthill, E. L., Miller, J. D., Collins, S. M., Widen, E. M., Onono, M., & Young, S. L. (2020). HIV infection, hunger, breastfeeding self-efficacy, and depressive symptoms are associated with exclusive breastfeeding to six months among women in western Kenya: a longitudinal observational study. International Breastfeeding Journal, 15(1), 1-9.
- Water, Infrastructure, and Gender in the Global South, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2020.1715193
- Wilson, N. J. (2020). Querying Water Co-Governance: Yukon First Nations and Water Governance in the Context of Modern Land Claim Agreements. Water Alternatives, 13(1), 93-118.
- Wutich, A., Beresford, M., Bausch, J. C., Eaton, W., Brasier, K. J., Williams, C. F., & Porter, S. (2020). Identifying Stakeholder Groups in Natural Resource Management: Comparing Quantitative and Qualitative Social Network Approaches. Society & Natural Resources, 1-8.
- Wutich, A., Beresford, M., Bausch, J. C., Eaton, W., Brasier, K. J., Williams, C. F., & Porter, S. (2020). Identifying Stakeholder Groups in Natural Resource Management: Comparing Quantitative and Qualitative Social Network Approaches. Society & Natural Resources, 1-8.
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