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.
This paper examines the interrelations of technology, environment and people by exploring the origin, design and implementation of a dam-building project intended to control water-level fluctuations and enhance the Nett Lake wild rice ecosystem at Bois Forte Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota.
In 1992, China approves the construction of the Three Gorges dam. It would be completed in 2008.
This dam project alters the Niger delta’s previously dynamic and self-regulating ecosystem.
The completion of the original Aswan Dam fundamentally changes Egypt’s irrigation system.
