Women Plus Water Lecture Series
The Climate Crisis is a Water Crisis
In honour of World Water Day (March 22, 2023), Women Plus Water is excited to host a conversation on the climate and water crisis. Host Dr. Inonge Milupi and guests Dr. Martina Angela Caretta and Dr. Tahseen Jafry will provide perspectives on climate justice, gender, poverty, environmental degradation, and the 2022 IPCC Assessment on Water.
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Host
- Dr. Inonge Milupi
Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences Education, University of Zambia
Guests
- Dr. Martina Angela Caretta
Senior Lecturer, Department of Human Geography, Lund University - Professor Tahseen Jafry
Director, Mary Robinson Centre for Climate Justice, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Dr. Inonge Milupi
Inonge Milupi D. (PhD) is an expert in climate change impact on human health after successfully completing her Postdoc fellowship at the University of Waterloo in Canada in 2021. She is also an Environmental Education expert. She has 5 years of expertise in wildlife resource management after obtaining a PhD in Environment and Society with a focus of wildlife resources sustainability at the University of Pretoria in South Africa in 2018. Her areas of technical expertise include climate change and its impact on water resources, wildlife management, women and environment as well as Local Ecological Knowledge. She is a member of several professional bodies such as Zambia Network of Environmental Education Practitioners (ZANEEP), Canadian Association for Global Health (CAGH), Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa (EEASA) and Graduate Women Zambia (GWZ). Inonge is currently a lecturer at the University of Zambia in the School of Education offering courses to both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta
Dr. Martina Angela Caretta is a Senior Lecturer at the Dept of Human Geography at Lund University, Sweden. She holds a PhD in Geography from Stockholm University. She is a feminist geographer with expertise in water, climate change adaptation, gender and participatory methodologies. She is one of two Coordinating Lead Authors of the "Water" Chapter WGII IPCC 6th Assessment Report. She has carried out extensive fieldwork in East Africa, Latin America and Appalachia, USA . Her work has been published in Gender, Place and Culture; Annals of the AAG, Climate & Development, Frontiers Water, Qualitative Research among others.
Professor Tahseen Jafry
As Director of The Mary Robinson Centre for Climate Justice my research interests are wider and deep. They include the justice and equity aspects of climate change, gender and poverty targeting, the management of natural resources; especially water, the geo-political nature of climate justice and the psycho-social impacts of climate change. As a qualified engineer and social scientist, I am well versed across disciplines and have over two decades of research and development experience in the global south.
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- 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM CST
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