Javernick-Will, Liel (CU Boulder), and Koschmann (CU Boulder) awarded NSF Grant “Building Capacity for Safer Post-disaster Shelter"

March 18, 2019

Associate Professor Amy Javernick-Will, along with Co-PIs Abbie Liel (Structural Engineering) and Matt Koschmann (Communication), received a grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Humans, Disasters, and the Built Environment (HDBE) program to study post-disaster shelter reconstruction programs in the Philippines and Puerto Rico. With this three-year, $500,000 grant the...

The 'art' in partnerships

Feb. 5, 2019

You can’t do it alone, and government can’t do it alone. Strengthening a WASH system needs a whole partnership of actors working collectively, but what do partnerships need to work well? These partnerships bring together those that make the system controversial and complex in the first place – the agencies,...

Influencing UN policies: the art of people-watching

Feb. 5, 2019

Earlier in 2018 when I presented at a Youth Forum at the UN, I felt inspired to be sitting in the same seats as decision makers. But in June 2018 at the Multi-stakeholder Forum for Science, Technology, and Innovation , the feeling was different – that I could influence decision...

Using Network Analysis to Understand Alignment Toward Collective Action

Jan. 7, 2019

At University of North Carolina’s 2018 Water and Health Conference, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder's Kimberly Pugel presented two case studies to highlight a method SWS is using to visualize the priorities of each actor within a network by combining standard network analysis with qualitative interviews. SWS partners are seeking to...

Factor and Actor Networks: Alignment of Collective Action Groups for Water Sustainability in Ethiopia

Jan. 7, 2019

As the international water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector moves towards approaches that strengthen the wider political, social, technical, institutional, and environmental sub-systems that keep WASH infrastructure functioning, there is a growing need to understand the organizations, governments, and people that manage and rely on these sub-systems. As no single...

A Comparative Analysis of Coordination, Participation, and Training in Post-Disaster Shelter Projects.

Opdyke, A., Javernick-Will, A., and Koschmann, M. (2018). Sustainability 10(11). 10.3390/su10114241.

Priority Addressment Protocol: Understanding the Ability and Potential of Sanitation Systems to Address Priorities

Nov. 29, 2018

Davis, A., Javernick-Will, A., Cook, S., 2019. Priority Addressment Protocol: Understanding the Ability and Potential of Sanitation Systems to Address Priorities. Environmental Science & Technology 53, 401–411. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.8b04761

Typhoon Haiyan and Tacloban City Relocation: Supplemental Site Data for Community Outcomes Survey

Nov. 8, 2018

Palagi, S. and Javernick-Will, A. (2018). ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder, Boulder, CO.

Typhoon Haiyan and Tacloban City Relocation: Summary of Community Outcomes Survey

Nov. 8, 2018

Palagi, S. and Javernick-Will, A. (2018). ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder, Boulder, CO.

Institutional constraints influencing relocation decision making and implementation

Palagi, S. and Javernick-Will, A. (2019). International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 33, 310–320.

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