Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West
This film explores the issues facing the Colorado River Basin due to increased pressure from population growth, and the effect on an already decreasing water supply.
This film explores the issues facing the Colorado River Basin due to increased pressure from population growth, and the effect on an already decreasing water supply.
This film examines attempts by communities and experts around the world to protect their water resources in the face of global warming, pollution, and political conflict.
In this paper the author discusses three possible alternative interpretations of the meaning of places and place attachment in ‘new nature’ projects, and shows how all three imply a different view on human identity and history.
This case study reflects China’s environmental governance as a constantly evolving structure within the “environment-politics-society” nexus.
The author works on the notion of “watershed encounter” as a diverging point in history to analyze which watershed encounters shaped the Chesapeake Bay region. He argues that current restoration efforts, far from solving the current issues, only exacerbate them.