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.
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.”
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.
Our first webinar “Experiências da Insegurança Hídrica Domiciliar no Brasil” was held on August 27, 2020 for Brazilian researchers. The webinar was attended by 38 professionals and researchers from different institutions, including Federal University of ABC, University of São Paulo,…
Sameer Shah is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. Trained broadly as a political-ecologist with a strong interest in coupled qualitative and quantitative methodology and analysis, his research intersects…
Paula Tomaz, who earned a Ph.D. in Geography (2019) from the Federal University of Ceara (Fortaleza, Brazil), wrote her dissertation on household water insecurity in a small town in the semiarid region of Northeast Brazil during drought. Her work, which included…
