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Joni Seager is a professor of Global Studies at Bentley University in Boston, USA. She is a highly accomplished researcher and writer with strong leadership and team building skills with expertise in both gender and the environment as well as indicators and mapping. She has published well known and respected atlases entitled The State of Women in the World Atlas and the State of the Earth Atlas. In 2004 Dr. Seager and Dr. Hartmann (former SSC member) completed a study for the Division of Early Warning and Assessment on mainstreaming gender into its institutional and conceptual framework.

Recent Publications

Seager, Joni. “Gender and water: good rhetoric but it doesn’t ‘count’,” Geoforum, vol. 40, 2009.

Seager, Joni, Kenza Robinson, Charlotte van der Schaaf, Sascha Gabizon. Gender-Disaggregated Global Data on Water & Sanitation, United Nations/ DESA, New York, 2009.

Seager, Joni. The state of gender-disaggregated data in water and sanitation: Overview and assessment of major sources, United Nations, New York, 2009.

Seager, Joni. The State of Women in the World Atlas (4th Ed), Penguin, New York, 2009.

Seager, Joni. “Gender and Disasters,” Social Policy, vol. 36, no. 2, 2006.

Seager, J. (2006). “Noticing gender (or not) in disasters.” Geoforum 37(1): 2-3.