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EDGES alumna Nicole J. Wilson published an article titled, “”Seeing Water Like a State?”: Indigenous water governance through Yukon First Nation Self-Government Agreements” in Geoforum. Abstract: Yukon First Nations and the waters within their traditional territories face a variety of socio-political and environmental pressures including the effects of historical and ongoing settler colonialism, global environmental […]

Leila M. Harris and her three colleagues published 3 articles in Water International Volume 44(2), a special issue they edited together. The title of the special issue is “Rural-urban water struggles: urbanizing hydrosocial territories and evolving connections, discourses and identities.” To view full article, click the article title below. Hommes, L., Boelens, R., Harris, L.M. […]

EDGES member Sejin Um successfully completed her MA degree in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice (GRSJ) at UBC. Her MA thesis is titled, “Why Do Young Women Leave Conglomerates? Gender and the Militarized Workplace in South Korea.” She will be joining the doctoral program in sociology at New York University in fall 2019. Abstract: […]

From fall 2019, EDGES alumna Andrea Marston will start as an Assistant Professor in the Geography Department at Rutgers University. Andrea was a member of EDGES and PoWG from 2010-2012, while she was obtaining her MA in Geography at UBC. Her research interests lie at the intersection of political economy, natural resource use/extraction, and land-based group identities. For […]

Leila Harris co-authored an article, “Household water sharing: A review of water gifts, exchanges, and transfers across cultures” in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water.  Abstract: Water sharing offers insight into the everyday and, at times, invisible ties that bind people and households with water and to one another. Water sharing can take many forms, including so‐called […]

EDGES member Sameer H. Shah and colleagues published an article titled, “Does household capital mediate the uptake of agricultural land, crop, and livestock adaptations? Evidence from the Indo-Gangetic Plains (India),” in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. Abstract: Farmers in the Indo-Gangetic Plains produce much of the wheat and rice grown in India. However, food production and […]

Leila M. Harris co-authored an article titled, “Household water sharing: a missing link in international health,” in International Health. Abstract: Water insecurity massively undermines health, especially among impoverished and marginalized communities. Emerging evidence shows that household-to-household water sharing is a widespread coping strategy in vulnerable communities. Sharing can buffer households from the deleterious health effects that […]

Sameer H. Shah, Lucy Rodina, Jenn M. Burt, Edward J. Gregr, Mollie Chapman, Steve Williams, Nicole J Wilson, and Graham McDowell co-authored an article titled, “Unpacking social-ecological transformations: Conceptual, ethical and methodological insights” in The Anthropocene Review. Abstract: Social-ecological systems contribute to environmental change and, in turn, face its corresponding shocks and disturbances. As scholarship on […]

Megan Peloso, Cynthia Morinville, and Leila M. Harris published an essay titled “Water Scarcity Beyond Crisis: Spotlight on Accra” as part of the essays on Parched Cities, Parched Citizens in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR). Peloso, M., Morinville, C. and L.M. Harris. (2018). Water Scarcity Beyond Crisis: Spotlight on Accra. International […]

EDGES member Graham McDowell becomes Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Contributing Author! Graham was invited to contribute given his unique expertise in human adaptation to climate change in high mountain regions. Graham is a PhD student at the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability (IRES) at UBC. He holds an MSc in Environmental Change and Management […]

Leila M. Harris is a co-author on a recent article, “Indigenous women respond to fisheries conflict and catalyze change in governance on Canada’s Pacific Coast” by Harper, S., Salomon, A.K., Newell, D., Waterfall, P.H., Brown, K., Harris, L.M., and Sumaila, U.R. published in Maritime Studies. Abstract: While the agency of individuals has been identified as a key […]

We are pleased to congratulate Dr. Danika Kleiber, EDGES and IRES alumna, on her new job. Dr. Kleiber has just started a joint three-year Postdoctroal Research position with the ARC Center of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies, and WorldFish. She will be based in Townsville, Australia and working at James Cook University where she will […]

Nicole Wilson and Jody Inkster published an article in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, titled “Respecting water: Indigenous water governance, ontologies, and the politics of kinship on the ground.” Abstract: Indigenous peoples often view water as a living entity or a relative, to which they have a sacred responsibility. Such a perspective frequently conflicts […]

Philamer C. Torio has published an article in Water Policy, titled “Leveling the playing field for metro Manila’s impoverished households.” Abstract: Metro Manila’s water privatization is one of the world’s largest and longest-running privatization programs for a water utility. While traditional efficiency metrics show significantly improved service levels under this schema, local anti-privatization activists maintain that […]

Cape Town could become the world’s first major city to run out of water – what’s been termed Day Zero. The city has done a great deal of work to manage water use, even winning multiple awards, although equity concerns have frequently been raised in relation to these efforts. In light of the ongoing drought, […]

In February 26, 2018, Dr. Leila Harris will present a seminar titled “Implementing, Narrating, and Resisting the Human Right to Water” at Texas A&M University. The presentation is co-sponsored by the Department of Geography at Texas A&M and the Water Security Initiative o Click below to view full information: http://calendar.tamu.edu/geosciences/#event_id/37567/view/event/date/20180226d