Dr. Farhana Sultana
Associate Professor, Geography
Research Director for Environmental Collaboration and Conflicts, PARCC (Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration)
Syracuse University
will speak on
Global Water Crises and How We Can Envision Just
and Sustainable Futures
Abstract:
Water affects all aspects of human and non-human life in complex ways. Global water crises are worsening with nearly a billion people lacking safe clean water daily. With climate change, existing water insecurities and scarcities will be exacerbated but unevenly so throughout the world. Increasing attention is being paid to the importance of water in broader issues of sustainability, development, and equity. Shifts in water management and policies are occurring and these often involve greater civic engagement and galvanizations around water. This talk discusses how we can envision just and sustainable futures through water.
Biography:
Dr. Farhana Sultana is an Associate Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University, where she is also the Research Director for Environmental Collaboration and Conflicts at the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflicts and Collaboration (PARCC). Dr. Sultana is an internationally recognized interdisciplinary scholar of political ecology, water governance, post‐colonial development, social and environmental justice, climate change, and feminism. Her research and scholar-activism draw from her experiences of having lived and worked on three continents as well as from her backgrounds in the natural sciences, social sciences, and policy experience. Prior to joining Syracuse, she taught at King’s College London and worked at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Author of several dozen publications, her recent books are “The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles” (2012), “Eating, Drinking: Surviving” (2016) and “Water Politics: Governance, Justice, and the Right to Water” (2020). Dr. Sultana graduated Cum Laude from Princeton University (in Geosciences and Environmental Studies) and obtained her Masters and PhD (in Geography) from the University of Minnesota, where she was a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow.
Friday, March 27, 2020
2:15 pm
CAMP 176
Reception to follow