“Walking a Sicilian River”

Anthropologist Paolo Gruppuso and geographer Erika Garozzo ruminate on the life of Sicily’s largest but now disappearing river—the Simeto.

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The Institute of Man and Resources: An Environmental Fable

Book excerpt from former Rachel Carson Center fellow Alan MacEachern’s The Institute of Man and Resources: An Environmental Fable. Learn about how Prince Edward Island in Canada tackled the oil crisis of the 1970s by investing in renewable resources.

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Making the Palace Machine Work: Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire

Making the Palace Machine Work: Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire, edited by Martina Martina, Kai Jun Chen, and Dorothy Ko, is available to download in its entirety.

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EHL VideoDictionary: Nuclear

Joseph Masco on nuclear energy and weapons. This is an entry in the KTH EHL VideoDictionary.

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Civilizing Nature with the Spade and the Rifle: The Engineer Battalion in the Araucanía Region, Chile (1877–1891)

by Matías González Marilicán

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Arcadia, Spring 2020, no. 21

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The Competing Influences of Deluge and Drought in Queensland’s Dry Tropics

by Patrick White

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Arcadia, Spring 2020, no. 5

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Dreaming the Designer Climate (Iceland)

In this chapter from the virtual exhibition “Global Environments: A 360º Visual Journey,” Jeroen Oomen and Adam Sébire delve into the world of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies through a video triptych in Hellisheiði in Iceland. The three screens, shown here in one video, capture experiments at Hellishei∂i, aspects of the sequestered CO₂, and an imagined future.

Global Environments: A 360º Visual Journey

Communicating global environmental issues in new and exciting ways can lead to a better public understanding of academic research. The international doctoral researchers of the ENHANCE Innovative Training Network (ITN) present their interdisciplinary projects through short, immersive videos, accompanied by analytical contextualization. These six 360º videos and one multiple-screen video triptych, shot in different countries and ecosystems, aim to bring people closer to an in situ experience of global environments, their complexities, and our relationship to them.

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About the author

Doctoral researchers, ENHANCE ITN

The international doctoral researchers of the ENHANCE Innovative Training Network (ITN) are funded by the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions, and spread across four leading academic institutions: the Deutsches Museum, the Rachel Carson Center, KTH Stockholm, and the University of Leeds