Martin Schmid on "An Environmental History of the Danube"
Martin Schmid, Carson Fellow from March to August 2011, speaks about his research project, “An Environmental History of the Danube.”
Martin Schmid, Carson Fellow from March to August 2011, speaks about his research project, “An Environmental History of the Danube.”
Emily O’Gorman examines the ways in which ducks as well as people negotiated the changing water landscapes of the Murrumbidgee River caused by the creation of rice paddies.
One of the world’s largest dams, Ralco, on the river Biobío in Chile, opened in 2004 after numerous clashes with the Mapuche people. The land of this ancient indigenous community has been flooded by Endesa, the Spanish multinational company.
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 award-winning film examines the lives of 5000 people from 42 riverside communities a year after they have been displaced by the construction of the Irapé Dam and hydroelectric power plant in Brazil.
The film examines the social and ecological consequences of the Turkey’s South-East-Anatolia-Project (GAP), designed to enable energy production and irrigation on a huge scale.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Emily Gorman is interviewed on her recent book, Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin.