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A (Happy) Story of Coastal Erosion and Dunes

A (Happy) Story of Coastal Erosion and Dunes

A reflection on planning with nature by Celso Aleixo Pinto.

Building Cinque Terre: A Grapevine Viewpoint (Italy)

Building Cinque Terre: A Grapevine Viewpoint (Italy)

In this chapter from the virtual exhibition “Global Environments: A 360º Visual Journey,” Sarah Elizabeth Yoho’s 360° video captures the process of constructing a dry stone wall in Italy’s Cinque Terre. In cooperation with community organization Tu Quoque Vernazza, it was filmed over nine days and is shown in time-lapse. The camera captures the grapevine’s point of view of Cinque Terre life.

Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America

Stoll traces the origins of nineteenth-century conservation, which grew out of a rich and heated discussion, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, about soil fertility, plant nutrition, and livestock management. More fundamental than any other resource, soil “became the focal point for a conception of nature as strictly limited.” The problem gave rise to a major disagreement about the wisdom of territorial expansion.