New Publication: Dunn, Bakker and Harris, Drinking Water Quality Guidelines across Canadian Provinces and Territories
Dunn, G., Bakker, K., & L. Harris (2014). Drinking Water Quality Guidelines across Canadian Provinces and Territories: Jurisdictional Variation in the Context of Decentralized Water Governance. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 11, 4634-4651. Abstract: This article presents the first comprehensive review and analysis of the uptake of the Canadian Drinking Water Quality Guidelines (CDWQG) across Canada’s 13 […]
New Publication: Harris, Imaginative Geographies of Green: Difference, Postcoloniality, and Affect in Environmental Narratives in Contemporary Turkey
Harris, L. (2014). Imaginative Geographies of Green: Difference, Postcoloniality, and Affect in Environmental Narratives in Contemporary Turkey. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Abstract: Analyzing everyday environmental imaginaries from contemporary Turkey through the lenses of postcolonial, emotional-affective, and nature–society geographies, this article offers insights into shifting nature–society relations and possibilities. Based on a series […]
Leila Harris at the Environmental Justice Workshop at Purdue University
Leila Harris will be giving a talk at the Environmental Justice and Access to Basic Resources session at the Environmental Justice Workshop scheduled to take place at Purdue University on April 24 and 25th. “Environmental justice (EJ), or the issue of ensuring fair access to environmental decision making and resources for all groups in society, is a […]
Leila Harris visits South Africa in April 2014
During a recent trip to South Africa, Leila Harris was a panelist at the Municipal Services Project International Conference in Cape Town, titled “Putting Public in Public Services: Research, Action and Equity in the Global South”. The objectives of this conference were to bring together researchers, activists, labour representatives, development practitioners and policy makers from around the world working […]
EDGES at the AAG 2014
This year’s Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers took place in Tampa, Florida. The EDGES Research Collaborative was represented by two current EDGES students – Elizabeth Dapaah and Lucy Rodina – and and two EDGES alumni – Margaret Morales and Andrea Marston. Here are quick summaries of the presentations: Elizabeth Dapaah, Despair and neglect in the […]
Congratulations to Megan Peloso
Please join the EDGES team in congratulating Megan for her successful completion of the MA program at IRES! Megan Peloso did her MA under the supervision of Dr. Leila Harris, working on water governance and water access in Accra, Ghana. During a field trip to Ghana in 2012, Megan investigated questions of water access and urban informality from […]