Beyond engagement: Enhancing equity in collaborative water governance

EA Koebele, LE Méndez‐Barrientos… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Collaborative governance has emerged as a promising approach for addressing complex
water sustainability issues, with purported benefits from enhanced democracy to improved …

Social vulnerability and water insecurity in the Western United States: a systematic review of framings, indicators, and uncertainty

O Drakes, D Restrepo‐Osorio… - Water Resources …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Water insecurity poses a complex challenge for the western United States. Large
populations are exposed and susceptible to physical and social factors that can leave them …

Thousands of domestic and public supply wells face failure despite groundwater sustainability reform in California's Central Valley

D Bostic, L Mendez-Barrientos, R Pauloo, K Dobbin… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Across the world, declining groundwater levels cause wells to run dry, increase water and
food insecurity, and often acutely impact groundwater-dependent communities. Despite the …

Who gets left behind by left behind places?

DS Connor, AK Berg, T Kemeny… - Cambridge Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We document that children growing up in places left behind by today's economy experience
lower levels of social mobility as adults. Using a longitudinal database that tracks over …

Variations in household water affordability and water insecurity: An intersectional perspective from 18 low-and middle-income countries

SH Shah, LM Harris, V Menghwani… - … and Planning F, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Compounding systems of marginalization differentiate and shape water-related risks. Yet,
quantitative water security scholarship rarely assesses such risks through intersectionality, a …

Assessing environmental justice contributions in research and public policy: an applied framework and methodology

LE Méndez-Barrientos, SH Shah… - … Policy & Planning, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
How can scholars and practitioners gauge the extent to which environmental justice (EJ) is
present in research and policy? Through synthesizing the interdisciplinary environmental …

Urban equity of park use in peri-urban areas during the Covid-19 pandemic

Y Wu, YD Wei, M Liu, I García - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2025 - Elsevier
Studies of parks underscore the significance of park equity, considering both its quantity and
quality. However, the vulnerability of peri-urban communities, especially during the COVID …

Water infrastructure as intrusion: Race, exclusion, and nostalgic futures in North Carolina

CL Workman, SH Shah - Annals of the American Association of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In the late 1990s, the predominantly white community of Morningside, North Carolina,
prevented annexation into the larger majority-minority city of Greensboro, citing their desire …

Urban inequality, the housing crisis and deteriorating water access in US cities

K Meehan, JR Jurjevich, L Everitt, NMJW Chun… - Nature Cities, 2024 - nature.com
The housing unaffordability and cost-of-living crisis is affecting millions of people in US
cities, yet the implications for urban dwellers' well-being and social reproduction remain less …

Justice and injustice in “Modular, Adaptive and Decentralized”(MAD) water systems

AD Roque, A Wutich, SH Shah, CL Workman… - Water Security, 2023 - Elsevier
Centralized water infrastructure is challenged by climate change, infrastructure degradation,
underinvestment, and shifting water demands. In its place, scholars have argued for …