The publication, Operationalizing equity for integrated water resources management, co-authored by current and past students in the Human and Environmental Change (HEC) Lab and collaborators, has received the 2024 Lanfear Award from the Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA). The Lanfear Award was established by AWRA in 2020 to recognize the authors of outstanding technology-related papers published in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) during the previous year. This article explores barriers to increasing equity in water resource infrastructure (WRI) projects, offering conceptual insights, examples, and metrics to promote equity while emphasizing the need to address broader legal, institutional, and social contexts that perpetuate inequity. Led by Dr. Cydney Seigerman, a recent PhD graduate from UGA, the research was a collaborative effort across several UGA departments and USACE. Congratulations to the team on this recognition!
