Voices of the Peace
Arcadia, Summer 2020, no. 32
dams
How a Fishway from Norway Reached the Weser River in Germany (1905–1912)
Arcadia, Summer 2020, no. 23
The Competing Influences of Deluge and Drought in Queensland’s Dry Tropics
Arcadia, Spring 2020, no. 5
"The Public Trust Doctrine, Private Water Allocation, and Mono Lake: The Historic Saga of National Audubon Society v. Superior Court"
This article tells the epic tale of the fall and rise of Mono Lake— the strange and beautiful Dead Sea of California—which fostered some of the most important environmental law developments of the last century.
Photograph of Golillas Dam in Colombia, 1982
The Golillas Dam, one of the works of the Chingaza Páramo project, was the largest infrastructural project in the history of water supply for Bogotá during the twentieth century.
"Vacating the Floodplain: Urban Property, Engineering, and Floods in Brisbane (1974-2011)"
Margaret Cook exposes the dominant socio-economic and political values that shaped flood management between 1974 and 2011 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
A Shaggy-Bear Story: An Environmental History from a Remote Region
Arcadia, Spring 2018, no. 4
The Australia Day Floods, January 1974
Arcadia, Summer 2017, no. 15
A Legacy of Brisbane’s Benchmark Floods of 1893: Creating Dam Dependence
Arcadia, Spring 2017, no. 9
Waking the Green Tiger
This film follows a resistance movement to the building of a dam on the Upper Yangtze River in southern China, highlighting Chairman Mao’s efforts to subjugate nature in the name of progress.