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Unfinished Italy
This film investigates how people in Italy respond to the permanently unfinished infrastructure surrounding them.
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Multimedia | film profile
De Engel van Doel [An Angel in Doel]
This film focuses on an elderly woman determined to remain in her beloved village, even as demolition begins to make room for urban expansion.
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Detropia
This film follows the responses of Detroit residents to the city’s industrial decline.
Perspectives Article
Environmental Scarcity and Abundance in Medieval Icelandic Literature
Although medieval Scandinavian literary texts are heavily symbolic and thus cannot be used as reliable sources of information about environmental conditions of the past, they can shed valuable light on the ways premodern societies perceived and dealt with problems of scarcity and environmental change.
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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.
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My Mother, Oak
This film tells the stories of displaced people and livelihood changes in Iran after the construction of the Karun-3 Dam which submerged 12,300 acres of valuable forest with water.
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Water Wars: When Drought, Flood and Greed Collide
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.
Arcadia
Sustainability and the Origins of Wildland Fire Research
At the 1873 annual meeting of AAAS, Franklin B. Hough argued for protection of America’s forests and conducted the first national investigation of wildland fire.
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Sprawling from Grace
This film criticizes America’s suburban sprawl and its dependence on oil as being unsustainable for the future.
Perspectives
Unruly Environments
Bringing together scholarship from across the globe, this volume of RCC Perspectives aims to shed light and stimulate discussion on the past, present, and future of the “unruly” environments that frustrate efforts at social and environmental control.