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Can Public Policy Perpetuate the Memory of Disasters?
Colten and Grismore examine the Amite River flood in August 2016 against the backdrop of collective flood memory and public policy.
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Learning from Loss? The Politics of Memory and Morality in the Post-disaster
Baez Ullberg presents examples of disaster recovery scenarios from Argentina and Sweden.
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Recommendations for Policymakers
Lakhani and de Smalen offer key messages for policymakers.
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The Niagara Telecolorimeter
The creation of the Niagara Telecolorimeter helped engineers physically remake Niagara Falls in the mid-twentieth century.
Multimedia | film profile
“Grand Challenges for Climate Science and Climate Services”
This presentation by Guy Brasseur for the 2016 CCES Competence Center Environment and Sustainability conference “Grand Challenges in Environmental and Sustainability Science and Technology” highlights the existing and upcoming challenges for climate science and climate services.
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Environmental Writing in Times of Terrorism: The Peruvian Journalist Bárbara D’Achille
In the 1980s, Bárbara d’Achille traveled through Peru as one of the country’s first environmental writers and activists.
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The 1971 Prague Conference on Problems Related to Environment—A Forgotten Contribution to International Environmentalism
In 1971, the UN Economic Commission for Europe holds a pioneering international conference on Problems Related to Environment.
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"The Persistence of Tightly Coupled Conflicts. The Case of Loisaba, Kenya"
Arjaan Pellis, Annemiek Pas, and Martijn Duineveld build upon Niklas Luhmann’s Social Systems Theory to study the multidimensional nature of resource-based conflicts in and around Loisaba conservancy in Kenya.
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"Edenic Views in Wetland Conservation: Nature and Agriculture in the Fogliano Area, Italy"
Paolo Gruppuso explores the genealogy of Edenic narratives about the Pontine Marshes in Agro Pontino, Italy, and the imaginary of the Bonifica Integrale, or integral reclamation.
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"Balancing Conservation and Livelihoods: A Study of Forest-dependent Communities in the Philippines"
The authors investigate how land cover, land use, and protected area management affects communities around a forest reserve in the Philippines. They conclude that incorporating local livelihoods into forest conservation strategies results in a measure of sustainability and positively impacts the socioeconomic well-being of communities near the protected area.