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Our project aims to address this gap to better capture and understand non-material aspects that might be important as ‘conversion factors’ to enable capabilities and entitlements to overcome household water insecurity.
In the WI>FI project we are investigating explicitly the conditions under which household food insecurity might be accounted for by water insecurity.
Several HWISE RCN Member researchers and collaborators examine multiple dimensions of WASH, water and food security, and gender in Amhara, Ethiopia.
We examine vulnerability of rural communities located in Brazil’s semiarid to enhace water, food, and energy security
Households in the urban periphery access water through complex systems of formal and informal water technologies, practices, institutions, and organizational forms.
The Global Ethnohydrology Study is a transdisciplinary multi-year, multi-site program of research that examines the range of variation in local ecological knowledge of water issues, also known as “ethnohydrology.”
We developed the Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) study to develop a tool to measure water insecurity at the the household level.
This project is funded by Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a charitable foundation helping to protect life and property by supporting engineering-related education, public engagement and the application of research.
HWISE-RCN is a community of scholars and practitioners who research and work in the interdisciplinary field of water insecurity. The RCN is an NSF-funded initiative (2018-2023) dedicated to building a community of practice that fosters key analytics and theoretical advances coupled with the development of research protocols and standardized assessments to document, benchmark, and understand the causes and outcomes of water insecurity at the household scale.
Asher Rosinger is a human biologist and the Ann Atherton Hertzler Early Career Professor in Global Health at Pennsylvania State University with appointments in the Department of Biobehavioral Health and the Department of Anthropology. Upon completion of his doctorate, Dr. Rosinger was selected as only one of two…
Dr. Stroma Cole is a senior lecturer in the department of geography and environmental management at the University of the West of England. Stroma combines her academic career with action research and consultancy, she is a director of a charity: Equality in Tourism International. Her research…
A new special issue, “Water Economy,” edited by Dr. Amber Wutich and Dr. Melissa Beresford is now available through Economic Anthropology. The issue features 10 articles from many HWISE members. Introduction abstract: “Anthropological research on water and economy has a long and rich history, especially…
