Protecting Wild Spaces and Species (Sweden)

Jonathan Carruthers Jones’s 360º video takes you on a journey with multiple hikers to the Arctic Circle, the Abisko National Park in northern Sweden, to understand what wilderness means to people. He concludes that even though it is a much-contested term—with supposedly lots of personal differences in opinions—people share a lot in common in their views of what wilderness is.

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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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

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The "Columbus Day Storm" of 1962

Typhoon Freda drifts into an extremely powerful storm formation zone in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and British Columbia, creating horrendous winds and ripping up the landscape.

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cyclones

ecosystems

storms

wind

wood

Themes:

Disasters

Infrastructure

Landscape Transformation

Regions:

Canada

Oregon

Washington

1996 Oakfield F5 Tornado

Oakfield Wisconsin survives a direct strike from an F5 tornado on July 18th, 1996 without a single fatality. Although property damage is extensive, the outcome could have been far worse.

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Themes:

Landscape Transformation

Regions:

Fond du Lac County

Masdar City: The Soon-To-Be “Eco City”

The UAE has appointed a company named Masdar to create the most environmentally sustainable city in the world that may serve as a model for future generations.

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Themes:

Landscape Transformation

Resources

Regions:

United Arab Emirates

Hybridization of Electric Utility Regimes: The Case of Wind Power in Denmark, 1973–1990

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Perspectives Issue 2013/2

This article argues for the hybridization of electric utility regimes by means of innovative adaptation of wind power. For a number of reasons, and with the mediation of many different actors, wind power in Denmark proved to be a viable addition to the power system. It did not radically transform the system but nor did it leave it unchanged.

Lowcountry Hurricanes: Three Centuries of Storms at Sea and Ashore

This illustrated history recounts how, for the past three hundred years, hurricanes have altered lives and landscapes along the Georgia-South Carolina seaboard.

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Episode 5: "The Storm History of Stanley Park"

Wolf Read, a 2009 graduate student in the Department of Forest Sciences at UBC, talks about his research on the complicated nature of windstorms in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland.

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First Windmill Use

The Persian scholar Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Ali al-Mas’udi (c. 896-956) is among the first to record the use of simple vertical-shaft windmills in Sistan, Persia.

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Themes:

Environmental Knowledge

Regions:

Seistan