Fish versus Power: An Environmental History of the Fraser River
An environmental history of the Fraser River (British Columbia) and the attempts to dam it for power and to defend it for salmon.
An environmental history of the Fraser River (British Columbia) and the attempts to dam it for power and to defend it for salmon.
This drama captures how the inhabitants of Javé, a small village somewhere in Brazil, set out to secure a future for themselves in the face of plans for a hydropower dam that threaten to submerge their village.
An environmental history of waterways in the United States.
The main function of the dam is flood control and the production of energy.
For nearly a century, we have relied increasingly on science and technology to harness natural forces, but at what environmental and social cost?
Melinda Laituri, Carson fellow from February to May 2011, talks about her research project, “Integrated Environmental History of Watersheds,” a comparative, historical-geographical analysis of the Danube and the Colorado rivers.