Perspectives Article
Defending Rivers: Vilcabamba in the South of Ecuador
Berros describes some of the first cases in which Rights of Nature was directly referenced in the courts of Ecuador.
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Perspectives Article
River Rights and the Rights of Rivers: The Case of Acheloos
Kalantzakos describes how flawed policy decisions damaged Greece’s Archeloos river, and how Rights of Nature could have mitigated the damage.
Arcadia
“Moby Dick” in the Rhine: How a Beluga Whale Raised Awareness of Water Pollution in West Germany
In 1966, a stray beluga whale swimming up and down the polluted Lower Rhine caught the media’s attention in West Germany.
Multimedia | book, full-text
Border Flows: A Century of the Canadian-American Water Relationship
This collection of essays traces the century-long effort by Canada and the United States to manage and care for their ecologically and economically shared rivers and lakes, offering critical insights into the historical struggle to care for these vital waters.
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Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir
This book explores how the need for electricity at the turn of the century affected and shaped Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
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Nature's Past episode 45: "The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project"
In episode 45 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Daniel Macfarlane discusses his new book on the history of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project with Sean Kheraj.
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Nature's Past episode 54: "Reclaiming the Don, From Dissertation to Book"
In episode 54 of Nature’s Past, Professor Jennifer Bonnell talks to Sean Kheraj about her journey from her dissertation to publishing her book, Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto’s Don River Valley.
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"State Conservation Efforts of Seasonal Wetlands along the Mississippi River"
The authors compare the administrative regulations and actions aimed at protecting and conserving isolated wetlands in ten states along the Mississippi River corridor. They highlight the necessity for reliable data for at-risk wetlands to foster conservation practices.
Arcadia
Unifying the Yangzi Watershed in Early Twentieth-Century China
This article examines early twentieth-century China’s top-down scheme of managing rivers based on watershed.
Arcadia
How a Catastrophic Flood of the Gürbe River Triggered the Rethinking of Local Flood Protection
From channelizations to renaturations—the catastrophic flood of the Gürbe River in July 1990 prompted profound changes in approaches to flood protection.