The Marion Lake Story: Defeating the Mighty Phragmite
This film chronicles the struggle of a community in New York state to save a lake from an invasive weed and restore it to a habitat for migrating birds, and other flaura and fauna.
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"Ecological Restoration and Place Attachment: Emplacing Non-Places?"
In this paper the author discusses three possible alternative interpretations of the meaning of places and place attachment in ‘new nature’ projects, and shows how all three imply a different view on human identity and history.
"Modernisation with Local Characteristics: Development Efforts and the Environment on the Zoige Grass and Wetlands, 1949-2005"
This study is an overview of the state-led development projects and local efforts to ‘improve’ local conditions on the Zoige grass and wetlands on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau since 1949 and their impact on the regional ecological and social environment. It focuses on historical state-led development projects, as well as more recent efforts to raise environmental awareness of the importance of Chinese wetlands.
Rivers, Memory, and Nation-Building: A History of the Volga and Mississippi Rivers
Beginning in the pre-modern world, the Volga and Mississippi Rivers both served as critical trade routes connecting cultures in an extensive exchange network, while also sustaining populations through their surrounding wetlands and bottomlands. In modern times, “Mother Volga” and the “Father of Waters” became integral parts of national identity, contributing to a sense of Russian and American exceptionalism. Rivers, Memory, and Nation-Building discusses their histories, through which we derive a more nuanced view of human interaction with the environment, which adds another lens to our understanding of the past.
Forget About It: Purposeful Ignorance (of Waste) in a City Nature Preserve
Kleinstuck Marsh in Michigan is not the pristine, untouched landscape it might at first seem. Once a peat bog, the property was drained for a botanical garden and later sold as an unwanted piece of property and embedded with sewage pipes for a neighboring housing development, before becoming a nature preserve.
Unruly Marshes: Obstacles or Agents of Empire in French North Africa?
Through a short account of French reclamation in Algeria, this paper shows that it is between two divergent notions of environmental agency—environments acted upon and environments acting—that unruliness emerges as a provocative and potentially useful theme for environmental historians.
Earth First! 26, no. 2
Earth First! 26, no. 2 focuses on articles that discuss the human causes of bird flu pandemic, feautre urban farming and ecology issues, and discuss the indian movement’s new old problems.
Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed
Using the Malheur Basin in southeastern Oregon as a case study, this intriguing and nuanced book explores the ways people have envisioned boundaries between water and land, the ways they have altered these places, and the often unintended results.
Convention on Wetlands of International Importance signed in Ramsar
The Ramsar Convention establishes a framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation of wetlands and their resources.
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"Environmental Failure, Success and Sustainable Development: The Hauraki Plains Wetlands Through Four Generations of New Zealanders"
Taking a long-term approach following one family of Pakeha through four generations of interaction with the Hauraki Plains wetlands, this study argues that the environmental transformation that happened there was less a question of culture than of a specific time and place (context of civilisation).