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Go Ganges!
This film follows two friends as they travel the full length of the sacred Ganges River in India.
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Pandemics in Context
What can we learn from human responses to epidemics and pandemics in history? What insights can ecological and environmental humanities perspectives provide? This new and growing collection of annotated links to open-access media (analyses, primary sources, and digital resources) helps put pandemics in context.
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Urban Movements and Climate Change: Loss, Damage and Radical Adaptation
This edited volume takes the reader on an intellectual journey at the frontlines across global South and global North where climate breakdown meets social innovations.
Arcadia
The 1970 Bhola Cyclone and Its Lasting Legacy
The Bhola Cyclone of 1970 contributed to the independence of Bangladesh and had lasting impacts on its disaster preparedness and public welfare.
Exhibition chapter
The Rivers and the Cities: A Brief Introduction | Neva and Danube Rivers
Analyzing the history of fish populations in the Neva and Viennese Danube, the Russian-Austrian research group discovered numerous links between the great cities and their great rivers, including the fish populations. This introduction to the virtual exhibition “‘Commanding, Sovereign Stream’: The Neva and the Viennese Danube in the History of Imperial Metropolitan Centers” explains how the exhibition visualizes these links and reveal some hidden (or at least not immediately evident) sides of urban life.
Arcadia
The Typhoid Epidemic in Philippopolis, 1878
A brief narration about typhoid disease in the postwar Balkan city Philippopolis.
Arcadia
“A healthy mountainous island surrounded by a sea of malaria”: Ecology and War in the Caucasus
A case study of the effects of malaria in the Caucasus across the revolutionary divide of 1917.
Arcadia
Marshlands, Sanitation Policies, and Epidemic Fevers in Late-Eighteenth-Century Barcelona (1783–1786)
A tertian fever epidemic occurred in Barcelona from 1783 to 1786 and affected approximately one million people.