Sponsor
Funding was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program Award # 2215409 andEnvironmental Protection Agency (EPA) Award # 84055601-0. This publi-cation was developed under Assistance Agreement EPA STAR GrantRD-84055601, Drivers of Environmental Impacts of Energy Transitions inUnderserved Communities Award, awarded by the U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency to Alida Cantor, Kate Berry, James Blair, and DustinMulvaney. It has not been formally reviewed by EPA.
Published In
Geography Teacher
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2025
Subjects
Climatic changes -- Research, Water conservation -- Environmental Indicators
Abstract
Climate change is one of the most important challenges in the world today. Communities and decision makers at many levels, from local to international, are working to ensure that energy, water, and other societal infrastructures can transition and adapt to address climate change (IPCC, 2023). One major mitigation strategy involves the decarbonization of energy systems (Rockström et al. 2017). Despite wide recognition of the need to decarbonize globally, renewable energy infrastructures and technologies are often locally controversial, involving claims of environmental injustice and disputes over land and water (Cantor, Turley, and Maxfield 2023; Jerez, Garcés, and Torres 2021; Turley et al. 2022; Voskoboynik and Andreucci, 2021). Issues such as “sacrifice zones” have been raised with regard to energy transitions (Cantor and Knuth 2019; Mulvaney 2019; Zografos and Robbins 2020). Water in particular interacts with climate change and renewable energy efforts in complicated and place-based ways (Gunda et al. 2024). Renewable energy infrastructures and activities can jeopardize water quality, quantity, and distribution and can affect communities unevenly (Blair et al. 2022; 2024; Cousins, Cantor, and Turley 2024).
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© 2025 The author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the creative commons attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/),which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. Theterms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.Figure 1. “Unseen connections: Water-energy Transitions” StoryMap landing page.Image by authors.
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DOI
10.1080/19338341.2025.2490584
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/43691
Citation Details
Cantor, A., Bartholomew, E., Berry, K., Blair, J., Mulvaney, D., & Hunter, N. (2025). Unseen Connections: A StoryMap Exploring Case Studies in Water-Energy Transitions and Environmental Justice. The Geography Teacher, 22(2), 92–98.