The InFEWS program brings together researchers, engineers, and global partners to tackle some of the world’s most urgent sustainability challenges. From developing arsenic-free drinking water technologies to advancing climate-smart agriculture, our interdisciplinary work bridges engineering, social sciences, and policy to design scalable solutions that strengthen the interconnected systems of food, energy, and water.
Follow our fellows’ journeys through the program below:
OUR RESEARCH
Balcom, Paige, and Van P. Carey. “Exergy-Based Sustainability Analysis for Tile Production From Waste Plastics in Uganda.” Journal of Energy Resources Technology 142, no. 5 (January 14, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4045540.
Bandaru, Siva R. S., Case M. van Genuchten, Arkadeep Kumar, Sara Glade, Dana Hernandez, Mohit Nahata, and Ashok Gadgil. “Rapid and Efficient Arsenic Removal by Iron Electrocoagulation Enabled with in Situ Generation of Hydrogen Peroxide.” Environmental Science & Technology 54, no. 10 (May 19, 2020): 6094–6103. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c00012.
Beltran-Peña, Areidy, Lorenzo Rosa, and Paolo D’Odorico. “Global Food Self-Sufficiency in the 21st Century under Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture.” Environmental Research Letters, May 15, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9388.
Burt, Zachary, Ayşe Ercümen, Narayana Billava, and Isha Ray. “From Intermittent to Continuous Service: Costs, Benefits, Equity and Sustainability of Water System Reforms in Hubli-Dharwad, India.” World Development 109, no. C (2018): 121–33. https://econpapers.repec.org/article/eeewdevel/v_3a109_3ay_3a2018_3ai_3ac_3ap_3a121-133.htm.
Chapman, Margaret P., Jonathan Lacotte, Aviv Tamar, Donggun Lee, Kevin M. Smith, Victoria Cheng, Jaime F. Fisac, Susmit Jha, Marco Pavone, and Claire J. Tomlin. “A Risk-Sensitive Finite-Time Reachability Approach for Safety of Stochastic Dynamic Systems.” arXiv:1902.11277 [Cs], February 28, 2019. http://arxiv.org/abs/1902.11277.
Chapman, Margaret P., Kevin M. Smith, Victoria Cheng, David L. Freyberg, and Claire J. Tomlin. “Reachability Analysis as a Design Tool for Stormwater Systems.” 2018 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech), November 2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/sustech.2018.8671362.
Cohen, Alasdair, and Isha Ray. “The Global Risks of Increasing Reliance on Bottled Water.” Nature Sustainability 1, no. 7 (July 2018): 327–29. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0098-9.
Epstein, Kathleen, Jessica DiCarlo, Robin Marsh, Bikash Adhikari, Dinesh Paudel, Isha Ray, and Inger E. Måren. “Recovery and Adaptation after the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes: A Smallholder Household Perspective.” Ecology and Society 23, no. 1 (January 2018). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09909-230129.
Gordon, Pierce, Julia Kramer, Rachel Dzombak, Sophi Martin, and Alice M Agogino. “Building 21st Century Skills through Development Engineering.” International Journal of Engineering Education 34, no. 2B (January 1, 2017): 14. https://par.nsf.gov/biblio/10075301-building-century-skills-through-development-engineering.
Harrell, Stephen. “Essays in Development, Behavioral, and Health Economics.” University of California, Berkeley, 2019. https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/etd/ucb/text/Harrell_berkeley_0028E_19300.pdf.
Hernandez, Dana, Kathryn Boden, Prasenjit Paul, Siva Bandaru, Sreemannarayana Mypati, Abhisek Roy, Susan Amrose, Joyashree Roy, and Ashok Gadgil. “Strategies for Successful Field Deployment in a Resource-Poor Region: Arsenic Remediation Technology for Drinking Water.” Development Engineering 4 (January 1, 2019): 100045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.deveng.2019.100045.
Hyun, Christopher, Zachary Burt, Yoshika Crider, Kara L. Nelson, C.S. Sharada Prasad, Swati D.G. Rayasam, William Tarpeh, and Isha Ray. “Sanitation for Low-Income Regions: A Cross-Disciplinary Review.” Annual Review of Environment and Resources 44, no. 1 (2019): 287–318. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-101718-033327.
Jacome, Veronica, and Isha Ray. “The Prepaid Electric Meter: Rights, Relationships and Reification in Unguja, Tanzania.” World Development 105 (May 1, 2018): 262–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.01.007.
Kramer, Julia. “Designing for Health Accessibility: Case Studies of Human-Centered Design to Improve Access to Cervical Cancer Screening.” UC Berkeley, 2020. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8dq9z2f5.
Kumar, Tanu, Alison E. Post, and Isha Ray. “Flows, Leaks and Blockages in Informational Interventions: A Field Experimental Study of Bangalore’s Water Sector.” World Development 106 (June 1, 2018): 149–60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.01.022.
Li, Nancy, Julia Kramer, Pierce Gordon, and Alice Agogino. “Co-Author Network Analysis of Human-Centered Design for Development.” Design Science 4 (April 22, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1017/dsj.2018.1.
Mirabito, Yakira, and Kosa Goucher-Lambert. “The Role of Idea Fluency and Timing on Highly Innovative Design Concepts,” 10. American Society of Mechanical Engineers Digital Collection, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2020-22593.
Moreno Carranco, María, and Beki McElvain. “Life Above, Rubble Below. A Case of Historically Produced Risk & Perception in Mexico City.” Ardeth, no. 6 (September 1, 2020): 153–69. http://journals.openedition.org/ardeth/1189.
Moreno, Laura C., Thao Tran, and Matthew D. Potts. “Consider a Broccoli Stalk: How the Concept of Edibility Influences Quantification of Household Food Waste.” Journal of Environmental Management 256 (February 15, 2020): 109977. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109977.
Prasad, C. S. Sharada, and Isha Ray. “When the Pits Fill up: (In)Visible Flows of Waste in Urban India.” Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development 9, no. 2 (June 1, 2019): 338–47. https://doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2019.153.
Prasad, Sharada, and Isha Ray. “‘When You Start Doing This Work It Is Hard to Eat Dal’: Life and Work of Manual Scavengers.” Economic and Political Weekly 53 (August 11, 2018): 25–27.
Ray, Isha, N. Billavi, Z. Burt, JM Jr Colford, A. Ercümen, K. P. Jayaramu, E. Kumpel, N. Nayak, K. L. Nelson, and C. Woelfle-Erskine. “From Intermittent to Continuous Water Supply: A Household-Level Evaluation of Water System Reforms in Hubli–Dharwad.” Economic and Political Weekly 58 (January 1, 2018). https://par.nsf.gov/biblio/10107108-from-intermittent-continuous-water-supply-household-level-evaluation-water-system-reforms-hublidharwad.
Rayasam, Swati D. G., Isha Ray, Kirk R. Smith, and Lee W. Riley. “Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia Coli and Antimicrobial Drug Resistance in a Maharashtrian Drinking Water System.” The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 100, no. 5 (May 1, 2019): 1101–4. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.18-0542.
Siegner, Alana, Jennifer Sowerwine, and Charisma Acey. “Does Urban Agriculture Improve Food Security? Examining the Nexus of Food Access and Distribution of Urban Produced Foods in the United States: A Systematic Review.” Sustainability 10, no. 9 (September 2018): 2988. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10092988.
Siegner, Alana, and Natalie Stapert. “Climate Change Education in the Humanities Classroom: A Case Study of the Lowell School Curriculum Pilot.” Environmental Education Research 26, no. 4 (April 2, 2020): 511–31. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2019.1607258.
Sunter, Deborah A., Isa Ferrall, Jessie Knapstein, David Garfield, Noah Kittner, and Daniel M. Kammen. “Quantifying Innovation Patterns in Next Generation Solar Photovoltaics.” In 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC) (A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC & 34th EU PVSEC), 1147–51, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/PVSC.2018.8548306.
Wade, Alisa A., Amina Grant, Seigi Karasaki, Rachel Smoak, David Cwiertny, Andrew C. Wilcox, Laurie Yung, Kristin Sleeper, and Aavudai Anandhi. “Developing Leaders to Tackle Wicked Problems at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems.” Edited by Alastair Iles and Michael E. Chang. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 8, no. 11 (March 13, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.407.
Ward, Emily Geraghty, Diana Dalbotten, Nievita Bueno Watts, and Antony Berthelote. “Using Place-Based, Community-Inspired Research to Broaden Participation in the Geosciences.” GSA Today, August 1, 2018, 26–27. https://doi.org/10.1130/GSATG366GW.1.
Woojin, Jung. “Combating Poverty Through Aid: A Critical Analysis of Alternative Models.” University of California, Berkeley, n.d.
