Early Career Research Fellow Track 1 (Human Health and Community Resilience Track) - Eric Sarmiento
Implementing Organization
Texas State University
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$75,000
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine – Gulf Research Program (NASEM - GRP)
Funding Program
NASEM Gulf Research Program Fellowships
Details
Project Category
Human and Social
Project Actions
Education and Outreach
Targeted Resources
Project Description
Dr. Eric Sarmiento is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Texas State University. As a cultural geographer and political ecologist, he uses qualitative methods to understand how the benefits and burdens of urban change are unevenly distributed among different groups, both reflecting and producing varied forms of knowledge about the city. His central question is, how different forms of knowledge and understanding of urban and environmental change might be mobilized to create more just and sustainable urban transitions. Dr. Sarmiento's previous work has examined drought, food systems, segregation, and gentrification. Each of these cases highlights how dominant narratives of development and environmental change obscure longstanding inequities that constrain life opportunities and negatively impact the health and well-being of less privileged urbanites, who in turn often possess invaluable but overlooked insights about urban environmental, social, and economic transitions. Building on these findings, his current research examines chronic flooding in Houston, emphasizing a methodology designed to not only increase understanding of the perspectives of groups underrepresented in policy and the production of expert knowledge, but also to draw together expert and local knowledge in a longitudinal co-production process.
Contact
Maeesha SaeedNone
msaeed@nas.edu
Project Website
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