3U Global Health are taking part in the DSA Ireland annual conference on 19 November 2015 and will introduce two newly published collaborative books on sustainable water in developing countries.  The two books are:

Water is Life: Community-Based Research for Sustainable Safe Water in Rural Uganda

G. Honor Fagan (Editor), Suzanne Linnane (Editor), Kevin G. McGuigan (Editor), Albert Rugumayo (Editor) (2015, Practical Action)

This book focuses on community-based research into improving the sustainability and equity of safe water production, consumption and management at community level in rural Uganda. It provides an account of the findings of a five-year combined social science and natural science and engineering research work programme (2009-2014) which took place within and with the community, in the sense that the community identified their water needs and related their everyday struggles with water resourcing to the research team, and contributed to the outcomes.

For more details about this book please visit https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/sociology/news/new-book-water-life

 

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Water and Development: Good Governance after Neoliberalism

Ronaldo Munck (Editor), Narathius Asingwire (Editor), Honor Fagan (Editor), Consolata Kabonesa (Editor) (2015, Zed Books)

Water and Development examines a range of issues, from governance to solar distillation, from gender to water pumps, using a range of research methods, from participant observation to GIS and SPSS data analysis. Throughout, however, there is the unifying thread of developing a participatory and sustainable approach to water which recognises it as an essential public necessity. For more details about this book please visit https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/sociology/news/new-book-water-and-development-good-governance-after-neoliberalism

 

Session details are as follows:

Date: Thursday 19 November 2015

Time: 14.30 – 16.00 session

Location: Education & Research Centre, Our Lady’s Hospice & Care Services, Harold’s Cross, Dublin 6W.

Speakers:

  • Dr. Suzanne Linnane (Dundalk Institute of Technology)
  • Prof. Ronaldo Munck (Dublin City University)
  • Prof. Martin Downes (Maynooth University)
  • Chair: Prof Honor Fagan (DSA Ireland Gender Study Group Co-Convenor)

 

To view the full DSA Ireland annual conference programme, please click here

To book your place, please click here