Sister Watersheds Research Project
Capacity Building in Civil Society for Watershed Management
Project Outcomes
Multimedia
Presentation at CERLAC | Presentation Flyer | Personal Report
By Fabiana Barbi (2005)
manual de metodologias participativas para o desenvolvimento comunitário (Manual)
Agroecologia urbana e práticas sustentáveis (Fanzine)
Pirajuçara: Bacia do Concreto (Film)
Land Use Evolution and Run Off at York University Keele Campus (Powerpoint)
Book Chapters
Forthcoming "Social vulnerability and climate justice: community-based strategies for political engagement." In A Awotona (ed.), A Global Survey of Sustainable Development in Areas of Social Vulnerability. United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2014 "International partnerships of women for sustainable watershed governance in times of climate change". In S. Buechler and A. Hanson (eds.), A Political Ecology of Women, Water and Global Environmental Change. London: Routledge, pp. TBA.
2012 "Climate justice partnership linking universities and community organizations in Toronto, Durban, Maputo, and Nairobi." co-authored with Ana Louise Tavares Leary as second author. In W. Leal (ed.), Sustainable Development at Universities: New Horizons. Frankfurt: Peter Lang Scientific Publishers, pp. 207-215.
2009 "Mulher, Igualdade e Gestão Participativa da Água no Brasil" ("Women, Equity and Participatory Water Management in Brazil"). With Andrea Moraes as second author. In Flàvia Mori Sarti and Gislene Aparecida dos Santos (eds.), Etica, Pesquisa e Políticas Publicas (Ethics, Research and Public Policy). São Paulo: Editora Rubio, pp. 107-122.
2009 "Deliberative Water Management: Women's Experience in Brazil." With Andrea Moraes. In A. Salleh (ed.), Eco-Sufficiency and Global Justice. London/Melbourne: Pluto Press/Spinifex Press, pp. 140-154.
2007 "Participation and Watershed Management: Experiences from Brazil." In Natural Resource Management: A Participatory Approach. Kolkata: ICFAI (Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India) University Press.
Student Papers
Gendered waters: the participation of women in the One Million Cisterns project in the Brazilian semi-arid region
by Andrea Moraes (2011)
Oferta de serviços ambientais na agricultura (Supply of Environmental Services from Agriculture)
by Laura Antoniazzi (2008)
Sistema Web-GIS participativo associado a indicadores de gestão descentralizada de risco de inundações (A participatory web-GIS system associated to decentralized flood risk management indicators)
by Ignazio Giuntoli (2008)
Capital social e ação coletiva na gestão das bacias dos rios Piracicaba, Capivari e Jundiaí: os desafios da gestão compratilhada do Sistema Cantareira - SP
by Fabiana Barbi (2007)
Ventos jovens na paisagem (Young winds over the landscape
by Thea Standerski (2007)
Exploring the Possibilities for an Emancipatory Approach to Formal Environmental Education in Taboão da Serra, Brazil
by Aneela Bisram (2006)
As agendas sociais brasileiras de desenvolvimento local: possibilidades de diálogo, articulações e de convergências
by Mariana Ferraz Duarte (2006)
Participation + Corporate Social Responsibility in Local Agenda 21: A Case Study from São Paulo, Brazil
by Arlita McNamee (2006)
Toronto Music Garden
by Thea Standerski (2006)
Institutional Infrastructure of Watershed Management in Ontario | Title Page | Proposal
by Lara Babbie and Nicole Worsley(2005)
by Aneela Bisram and Arlita McNamee (2005)
Downstream Pollution, Upstream Power: Rescaling Water Management in Metropolitan São Paulo
by Marcia Chandra (2005)
Democracy, Citizenship and civil society participation in Watershed Management | Appendix
by Ramy Hanna (2005)
Creating revolutionary educational environments: The political education of the Brazilian Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST)
by Erika Del Carmen Fuchs (2004)
Journal Articles
2013 "Women and water management in times of climate change." co-authored with Patricia Figueiredo, in the Journal of Cleaner Production special issue on Women, Water, Waste, Wisdom, and Wealth, vol. 60 (December), pp. 188-194.
2011 "International synergies to address climate change: participatory community organizing in Toronto and the Baixada Fluminense, Brazil," co-authored with Ana Louise Tavares Leary (first author), The Global Studies Journal, vol. 4, pp. 23-34.
2011 "Public participation in watershed management: international practices for inclusiveness." Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, vol. 36, iss. 5-6, pp. 204-212.
2009 "Pedagogies of resistance: community-based education for women's participation in watershed management in São Paulo, Brazil." Canadian Woman Studies, special issue on Women in Latin America, vol. 27, no. 1, pp.
2007 "Women and Participatory Water Management." Co-authored with Andrea Moraes. International Feminist Journal of Politics, special issue on Women and Water, vol. 9, issue 4, Fall 2007, pp. 485-493.
Photo Galleries
São Paulo 2004
Sister Watersheds team explores the Tietê River by boat, and visits the Embù neighbourhood and a floodwater retention pool near Pirajussara Creek. Note the water-themed mural decorating a local house -- residents' vision of the watershed they'd like to live in.
Toronto 2005
Sister Watersheds team explores the Humber River and Black Creek watershed, including the Finch Avenue washout and the headwaters of Black Creek in Vaughan, and discusses the project in a York seminar.
Toronto 2006
Brazilian exchange students trace Black Creek from the Humber to its source in Vaughan. A new culvert carries the creek under Finch Avenue.
Brazil 2007
Sister Watersheds team visits Piracicaba, a Pirajussara environmental education workshop, and holds a project seminar at the University of São Paulo.
Toronto 2007
Black Creek community workers discuss youth environmental education plans and results with Sister Watersheds team.
Toronto 2008
Brazilian exchange students record water awareness and conservation initiatives by the Don Valley Brickworks, the Don Task Force, and at a Lost Rivers water walk.
