Water Crises and Solutions: Engaging Science and Social Science to Develop Sustainable Solutions

Dr. Jenny Kehl, PhD, examines the relationship between environmental stewardship, water security, and economic development. Kehl connects science and social science to analyze how water scarcity affects food production, energy consumption, political stability, and economic growth in local and global systems. Kehl has served as a political economist at Rutgers University, Graduate School of Freshwater Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Concordia University in Mequon, Wisconsin and Ann Arbor, Michigan, and instructor at Harvard Extension School. Kehl has worked in Asia, Africa, the American Southwest, and the Great Lakes area on security, development, and equity issues, with a focus on environmental stressors and dispute resolution. Kehl educates scholar-practitioners in strategic thinking, entrepreneurial leadership, multidisciplinary education, and innovative policies to promote political stability, economic development, environmental sustainability, and responsible stewardship of vital waters and natural resources.