Water Infrastructure and Regional Governance in and beyond Western Pennsylvaniaġ1 - 11:10am | University of Pittsburgh/CONNECT Welcomeġ1:10 - 11:20am | Regional Studies Association Welcome, Keynote Introductionsġ1:20 - 11:50am | Keynote 1: Infrastructures of Inequality We are hosting four public panels that present research on what water infrastructure reveals about the politics and governance of metropolitan regions. This event will assess how water infrastructure shapes formal and informal regional spaces, communities, and governance dynamics and explores how these shape how water infrastructure is developed. We are now accepting registrations for the NOIR Workshops on Water Infrastructure and Regional Governance. As critical urban infrastructures and contested political objects, water systems are fundamental to conversations about sustainability and economic development trajectories for communities across the global South and global North. ![]() They are essential, if often black-boxed infrastructures that define how regional space is constructed, territorialized, and experienced. Watersheds and reservoirs, pipelines and ports, and storm water management and climate change mitigation represent complex political, economic, and environmental challenges. Water infrastructure performs a vital role in making and remaking regions. The Regional Studies Association’s Research Network on Infrastructural Regionalism (NOIR) is convening three online (Zoom) workshops to showcase empirical and conceptual research at the intersection of water governance, infrastructure, and regionalism. Water Infrastructure and Regional Governance, September 29 - October 2, 2020
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