Anais Roque

Journal Article Water Security · December 1, 2024 Access to safe water is vital for community health, especially during disaster and recovery periods when standard solutions may be slow or politically stalled. Water sharing, an informal and self-guided coping mechanism, becomes critical during disasters w ... Full text Cite

Photovoice: Methodological Insights from a Multi-site Online Design

Journal Article Field Methods · November 1, 2024 Photovoice involves respondents taking photographs of their environment to promote critical discussions and reflect on their experiences. Photovoice empowers marginalized communities and serves to reach policymakers. The Arizona Youth Identity Project (AZY ... Full text Cite

Participatory research in energy justice: guiding principles and practice

Journal Article Progress in Energy · July 1, 2024 This perspective explores the imperative role of participatory research (PR) in advancing energy justice. We argue that using PR methods and principles at the intersection of energy and equity is a critical research advantage. Here, we contend that PR fram ... Full text Cite

Justice and moral economies in “Modular, Adaptive, and Decentralized” (MAD) water systems

Journal Article Water Security · April 1, 2024 “MAD Water” systems (modular, adaptive, decentralized infrastructures) will expand to meet human water needs under future climate change, migration, and urbanization scenarios. Yet the use of MAD systems often undermines water justice. Here we argue that i ... Full text Cite

Community-based Participant-observation (CBPO): A Participatory Method for Ethnographic Research

Journal Article Field Methods · February 1, 2024 Community-based participant-observation purposefully combines participant-observation and community-based participatory research. While participant-observation is the core method of ethnography and foundational to cultural anthropology, community-based par ... Full text Cite

Assessing environmental justice contributions in research and public policy: an applied framework and methodology

Journal Article Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning · January 1, 2024 How can scholars and practitioners gauge the extent to which environmental justice (EJ) is present in research and policy? Through synthesizing the interdisciplinary environmental justice scholarship, we present a diagnostic framework for appraising the fr ... Full text Cite

Using Media Framing to Explore the Food-Energy-Water Nexus: The Case of the Rio Negro Basin in Uruguay

Journal Article Society and Natural Resources · January 1, 2024 Addressing the call for qualitative and empirical approaches to the food, energy, and water (FEW) nexus studies, this research examined newspapers to explore public discussion framing the understanding of the FEW systems interconnections. We conducted a me ... Full text Cite

Symbolic Appropriation of the U.S. Flag: Findings from a Photovoice Study

Journal Article American Behavioral Scientist · January 1, 2024 Based on photovoice and interview data from 144 Arizona young adults collected as part of the Arizona Youth Identity Project, this article builds on the concept of collective effervescence and symbolic violence through an analysis of U.S. flag images submi ... Full text Cite

Water Governance in the Wake of Disasters: Implications for Resilience, Security, and Environmental Justice

Journal Article Environmental Justice · January 1, 2024 When a disaster strikes, water supply systems can get impacted and amplify water security risk. This study examines community water governance after Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. We draw from the experience of 12 community-managed aqueducts and 36 interv ... Full text Cite

Participatory Convergence: Integrating Convergence and Participatory Action Research

Journal Article Minerva · January 1, 2024 This paper introduces the concept of “Participatory Convergence” as a framework to meet grand social-ecological challenges. Participatory Convergence combines the principles of Convergence Research with Participatory Action Research (PAR), offering a novel ... Full text Cite

Justice and injustice in “Modular, Adaptive and Decentralized” (MAD) water systems

Journal Article Water Security · December 1, 2023 Centralized water infrastructure is challenged by climate change, infrastructure degradation, underinvestment, and shifting water demands. In its place, scholars have argued for “Modular, Adaptive and Decentralized” (MAD) water systems. We critically inter ... Full text Cite

Interdependence of social-ecological-technological systems in Phoenix, Arizona: consequences of an extreme precipitation event

Journal Article Journal of Infrastructure Preservation and Resilience · December 1, 2023 Complex adaptive systems – such as critical infrastructures (CI) – are defined by their vast, multi-level interactions and emergent behaviors, but this elaborate web of interactions often conceals relationships. For instance, CI is often reduced to technol ... Full text Cite

Applying machine learning to understand water security and water access inequality in underserved colonia communities

Journal Article Computers, Environment and Urban Systems · June 1, 2023 This paper explores the application of machine learning to enhance our understanding of water accessibility issues in underserved communities called colonias located along the northern part of the United States–Mexico border. We analyzed >2000 such communi ... Full text Cite

Blue Food Sovereignty Benefits Social-Ecological Resilience: A Case Study of Small-Scale Fisheries Co-Management and Mariculture in Samoa

Journal Article Human Ecology · April 1, 2023 “Blue” (aquatic) food systems have a vital role in providing nutrition, livelihoods, and food security for coastal communities, but addressing and evaluating issues of equity and social resilience continue to challenge small-scale fisheries management. We ... Full text Cite

WATER SHARING AS DISASTER RESPONSE: COPING WITH WATER INSECURITY AFTER HURRICANE MARÍA

Journal Article Human Organization · January 1, 2023 In 2017, Hurricane María left more than a third of Puerto Rican households without water services. Cascading failures—including the simultaneous collapse of water, electricity, and transportation sectors—presented serious challenges to the timely restorati ... Full text Cite

Historicizing Puerto Rico’s Energy Present: A Political Ecology and Environmental Justice Approach to Energy Production in Puerto Rico

Journal Article Centro Journal · January 1, 2023 The collapse of Puerto Rico’s energy system after Hurricane María opened the door for a more sustainable and resilient system, as many stakeholders, including community leaders, demanded a move toward distributed and renewable energy sources. Instead, the ... Cite

Water insecurity in the Global North: A review of experiences in U.S. colonias communities along the Mexico border

Journal Article Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water · July 1, 2022 Since the late 1970s, the term “colonias” (in English) has described low-income, peri-urban, and rural subdivisions north of the U.S.-Mexico border. These communities are in arid and semi-arid regions—now in a megadrought—and tend to have limited basic inf ... Full text Cite

Participatory approaches in water research: A review

Journal Article Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water · March 1, 2022 Participatory research approaches address a range of problems in water research, including the under-valuation of local knowledge, exclusion of marginalized people, preferential treatment of elite and expert perspectives, and extractive and exploitative re ... Full text Cite

Building Social Capital in Low-Income Communities for Resilienc

Chapter · January 1, 2022 The risks and vulnerabilities generated by climate change are disproportionately distributed among low-income communities, indigenous peoples, and communities of color worldwide. However, some communities have proven to be more resilient to the challenges ... Full text Cite

Autogestión and water sharing networks in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María

Journal Article Water International · January 1, 2021 Puerto Rico’s residents were left without water services for up to nine months in the wake of hurricanes Irma and María (2017). Further, it was clear that there were no viable plans for addressing water provision gaps in anticipation of future hazards. In ... Full text Cite