“You Can’t Cook the Food If You Don’t Have the Water": Embodied Ecologies of Resource Insecurities 

Dr. Cassie Workman, Associate Professor & Director of the Health, Medicine, and Society Program at UNCG

Dr. Workman’s research illuminates the biopsychosocial realities of syndemic, or co-occurring and overlapping, resource insecurities. By tracing the pathways through which resource inequities are created and maintained, she contends with the assumptions inherent in the definition and measurement of “insecurities.” Integrating social sciences into transdisciplinary approaches, she critically engages presumably intractable “wicked water problems” and the social and environmental terrains that shape them.

Speaker: Jonathan Phillips, Chief Scientist at Croatan Earth Systems, NC and Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky Most studies of wetland response to sea-level rise are concerned with changes in elevation of salt marsh surfaces relative to the rate of coastal submergence. Marsh surface area increases... Continue reading...