Associated Publications:

Cantor, Alida, E. Bartholomew, K. Berry, J. Blair, D. Mulvaney, and N. Hunter. 2025. “Unseen Connections: A StoryMap Exploring Case Studies in Water-Energy Transitions and Environmental Justice.” The Geography Teacher.

Karambelkar, Surabhi, A. Cantor, T.K. Bui, B. Turley, M. Fischer, S. Ames. 2025. “Pumped Storage Hydropower in the United States: Emerging Importance, Environmental and Social Impacts, and Critical Considerations.” WIREs Water 12(2):e70017.

Blair, James, N. Vineyard, D. Mulvaney, A. Cantor, A. Sharbat, K. Berry, E. Bartholomew, and A. Firebaugh Ornelas. 2024. “Lithium and water: Hydrosocial impacts across the life cycle of energy storage.” WIREs Water 11(6): e1748. 

Cousins, Joshua, A. Cantor, and B. Turley. 2024. “Water throughout the green energy transition: Hydrosocial dimensions of coal, natural gas, and lithium.” WIREs Water 11(6): e1751.

Britton, Alexa, Olmedo, L., Torres, C. A., & Blair, J. 2024. "Hydrosocial imaginaries of green extractivism: Water-energy transitions and geothermal lithium development at the Salton Sea in Imperial Valley, California". The Extractive Industries and Society, 20, 101567.

Cantor, A., Turley, B., & Maxfield, K. (2023). "Energy storage and environmental justice: A critical examination of a proposed pumped hydropower facility in Goldendale, Washington." Antipode.

Turley, Bethani, Alida Cantor, Kate Berry, Sarah Knuth, Dustin Mulvaney, and Noel Vineyard. (2022). "Emergent landscapes of renewable energy storage: Considering just transitions in the Western United States." Energy Research and Social Science. 

Student Theses:

Bartholomew, E. (2024). ‘We’re Going to Tear up the Caldera So We Can Have an Electric Car’: Competing Perceptions and Spatial Dimensions of Open-Pit Lithium Mining in the McDermitt Caldera, Oregon. Master of Science in Geography. Portland State University. Available at: https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.3838.

Iyer, Padmaja K. (2023). "Procedural Parity in U.S. Lithium Mining Developments". Master's Theses. 5448.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.31979/etd.2hda-ut6m. 

Blog posts, media, & other non-peer-reviewed publications: 

"How Trump's plan to fast-track mining projects can hinder access to water" by Arilynn Hyatt, azcentral, April 25, 2025. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2025/04/25/quick-mining-approvals-impact-water-supply/83281200007/

"Not just Nevada — lithium is draining water across the world, study reveals" by Alan Halaly, Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 27, 2024. https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-nevada/not-just-nevada-lithium-is-draining-water-across-the-world-study-reveals-3103188/

“Lithium Critical to the Energy Transition is Coming at the Expense of Water” by Wyatt Myskow, Inside Climate News, July 18,

2024. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18072024/lithium-crital-to-energy-transition-at-expense-of-water 

Sustainability Now! KSQD Radio, March 28, 2024. "The Green Energy Resource Rush & The American West" With Professor Dustin

Mulvaney. https://ksqd.org/sustainability-now-sunday-march-31st-the-green-energy-resource-rush-the-american-west-with-

professor-dustin-mulvaney/

“We are the guinea pigs: Arizona mining project sparks concern for air and water” by Leanna First-Arai, The Guardian, March

4, 2024. https://www.rsn.org/001/we-are-the-guinea-pigs-arizona-mining-project-sparks-concerns-for-air-and-water.html 

“Pumped storage hydropower is the greenest renewable energy technology, study says” by Monica Samayoa, Oregon Public

Broadcasting (OPB), Sept 5, 2023. https://www.opb.org/article/2023/09/05/renewable-energy-sources-pumped-storage-

hydropower  

"Solar Is Booming in the California Desert, if Water Issues Don’t Get in the Way" by Wyatt Myskow, Inside Climate News, June 26, 2023. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26062023/solar-water-desert-center-california/

"Do Environmental Regulations Stop Clean Energy and Affordable Housing?" EcoJusticeRadio, 2023. https://soundcloud.com/socal350/do-

environmental-regulations-stop-clean-energy-and-affordable-housing  

The Water-Energy Nexus with Alida Cantor, PDXPLORES podcast, November 20, 2022

https://pdxplores.buzzsprout.com/1980537/11730317-the-water-energy-nexus-with-alida-cantor