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05.07.2012
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How have humans changed rivers throughout history, and what issues
of social and environmental justice shape human interaction with
rivers and, more generally, water? These questions shape the
research of Carson Fellow Melinda Laituri, who is engaged in a
comparative study between the Danube and the Colorado River. By
using remotely sensed data, Laituri tracks changes in the
development of the river; Laituri’s research also examines the
human right to water. Melinda Laituri is currently based in the
Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship at
Colorado State University. Her research focuses on the role of the
internet and geospatial technologies of disaster management and
cross-cultural environmental histories of river basin management.
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04.05.2012
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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.
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19.11.2011
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Climate had a key role in shaping the settlement and development of
the West in the United States, according to Carson Fellow Lawrence
Culver. By using historical sources, including government land
surveys and travel accounts from settlers, Culver demonstrates the
important role climate played for both survival and profit in the
westward expansion process. Lawrence Culver is an associate
professor in the Department of History at Utah State University,
where his areas of research and teaching include the cultural,
environmental, and urban history of the USA.
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08.11.2011
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The transition from socialism to post-socialism has affected many
aspects of life in Eastern Europe. By using anthropological
participant-observer methodologies, Carson Fellow Stefan Dorondel
looks at how this shift impacted land use in these regions; he
considers both how people change in relation to the landscape and
vice versa. Stefan Dorondel is an anthropologist interested in
post-socialist land tenure systems and in land use change.
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10.05.2011
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The intersection between neuroscience and history frames Carson
Fellow Edmund P. Russell’s research project. Russell looks as the
role of functional magnetic resonance imagining (FMRI) in
historical research, especially with regard to its effect on human
understanding of different types of environments. Edmund P. Russell
is an associate professor at the Department of Science, Technology,
and Society and the Department of History at the University of
Virginia. His research focuses on environmental history and the
history of technology.
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The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) is an
international, interdisciplinary center for research and education
in environmental humanities located in Munich, Germany. It was
founded in 2009 as a joint initiative of LMU Munich
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität) and the Deutsches Museum, and is
generously supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education
and Research. The center is named after the American biologist,
nature writer, and environmentalist Rachel Carson, whose accessible
writing raised awareness worldwide about threats to the environment
and human health. The Rachel Carson Center aims to advance research
and discussion concerning the interaction between human agents and
nature, and to strengthen the role of the humanities in current
political and scientific debates about the environment. By bringing
together scholars who work in various disciplines and national
contexts, and communicating the results of their research, the RCC
seeks to internationalize environmental humanities and to raise its
profile as a globally significant and growing field.
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