ERI launched of the Water Futures Initiative in 2018 with funding provided by A. Cary Brown ’84 (Fiddlehead Fund). Water Futures is a pan-university initiative working on solutions to major socio-environmental challenges in water security. It is designed to achieve synthesis across disciplines and sectors in a problem-oriented framework. Water Futures will link faculty, students, and programs at UVA with leading scholars and professionals working in other academic and non-academic institutions, drawing from different backgrounds and perspectives. The goal of the Water Futures Initiative is to build strong, collaborative teams, centered at UVA, and primed to respond to major water resilience challenges and opportunities.
Water Futures Initiative
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Water Futures focused on three themes that address critical societal challenges: Water Security, Justice and Politics; Urban Water; and Coastal Land Margins. The initiative was based on interdisciplinary, multi-institution collaborative teams which were led by a pair of Faculty Fellows, one from a partner institution and one from UVA. Each team had a postdoctoral fellow or other research staff, and student researchers. The Water Futures Symposium highlighted transformative results from the research teams. A pan-University seminar series coincided with the Water and Watershed Resilience Seminar in Spring 2019, brought together leading international water scholars to UVA.
Water Security, Justice and Politics
Urban Water
