An Environmental History of the Danube

Carson Fellow Martin Schmid discusses his work on writing the first
environmental history of the Danube river; Schmid’s research is
part of a larger project on the Danube at the
Alpen-Adria-University in Vienna. The Danube has been substantially
transformed since 1800 and is, according to Schmid, the most
important river in Europe. In order to provide a better
understanding of both the development and the importance of the
Danube, Schmid begins his history in the 1500s. Martin Schmid is an
assistant professor for environmental history and interdisciplinary
communications at Alpen-AdriaUniversity Klagenfurt-Graz-Wien in
Austria. A historian by profession, Martin is fascinated with
environmental history as an interdisciplinary field, crossing the
"great divide" between humanities and natural sciences.