Scholars@Duke
Elizabeth Christenson-Diver

Elizabeth Christenson-Diver

Affiliate
Kenan Institute for Ethics
Office hours By Appointment: https://calendly.com/elizabeth-christenson  

Selected Publications

A watershed study assessing effects of commercial hog operations on microbial water quality in North Carolina, USA.

Journal Article The Science of the total environment · September 2022 Commercial Hog Operations (CHOs) produce large amounts of fecal waste, which is often treated in lagoons and sprayed onto fields as fertilizer. The effects of these systems on proximal water quality compared to ambient conditions have not been well-studied ... Full text Cite

Getting ahead of antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in U.S. hogs.

Journal Article Environmental research · May 2021 Antibiotic-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus, an opportunistic bacterial pathogen, have emerged in industrial livestock operations and agricultural settings. In the United States, there is limited access to industrial livestock operations and farm ... Full text Cite

Understanding handpump sustainability: Determinants of rural water source functionality in the Greater Afram Plains region of Ghana.

Journal Article Water resources research · October 2015 Safe drinking water is critical to human health and development. In rural sub-Saharan Africa, most improved water sources are boreholes with handpumps; studies suggest that up to one third of these handpumps are nonfunctional at any given time. This work p ... Full text Cite

Rural:urban inequalities in post 2015 targets and indicators for drinking-water.

Journal Article The Science of the total environment · August 2014 Disparities in access to drinking water between rural and urban areas are pronounced. Although use of improved sources has increased more rapidly in rural areas, rising from 62% in 1990 to 81% in 2011, the proportion of the rural population using an improv ... Full text Cite

Examining the influence of urban definition when assessing relative safety of drinking-water in Nigeria.

Journal Article The Science of the total environment · August 2014 Reducing inequalities is a priority from a human rights perspective and in water and public health initiatives. There are periodic calls for differential national and global standards for rural and urban areas, often justified by the suggestion that, for a ... Full text Cite

Climate-related hazards: a method for global assessment of urban and rural population exposure to cyclones, droughts, and floods.

Journal Article International journal of environmental research and public health · February 2014 Global climate change (GCC) has led to increased focus on the occurrence of, and preparation for, climate-related extremes and hazards. Population exposure, the relative likelihood that a person in a given location was exposed to a given hazard event(s) in ... Full text Cite