This paper examines hunting in the colonial era and attempts to evaluate its role in avifaunal decline on the Gippsland Lakes.
Cultural eutrophication is a process, whereby an excessive increase in nutrients in inland waters occurs as a result of human activities. William McGucken’s book examines the causes and effects of this process with reference to Lake Erie.
With the foundation of the most northerly Orthodox monastery in 1436, monks and settlers began to create an extensive canal system on Solovetsky Island between the island’s more than five hundred lakes, thus transforming and adapting the environment to accommodate the needs of human settlers.
Liza Piper talks about the industrialization of Canada’s northwest subarctic region between 1920 and 1960.
Darwin’s Nightmare is a story about people in the North and South, about globalization, and about fish.
The Reserve Mining Company discharged taconite tailings directly into Lake Superior for 25 years, creating a massive tailings delta and polluting the waters of the lake. When the EPA took Reserve to court in 1973, the town of Silver Bay was divided between a struggle for economic well-being and public health.
This film chronicles the struggle of a community in New York state to save a lake from an invasive weed and restore it to a habitat for migrating birds, and other flaura and fauna.
The urbanization of Bangalore transformed the once-strong relationship between communities and the lakes that they once created and maintained.
The transformation of the Sampangi Lake into the present-day Sri Kanteerava Stadium.
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.
