Reading Time: 12 minutesOscar is a notoriously messy eater. Like all male Eclectus parrots, he uses his large candy-corn beak to pick up a piece of fruit and flings it across the kitchen floor.
Environmental History Now.
A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community
GIS and the Mapping of Enslaved Movement: The Matrix of Risk
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’m a geographer, and that means I use GIS, an organized collection of computer hardware, software, and infrastructure. Using GIS, I map fugitivity in the Great Dismal Swamp, which involves acquiring, storing, analyzing, and digitizing geographic and related data.
Breaking With Discipline: Studying Environmental History
Reading Time: 6 minutesSome fantastic literature and theory sharpened the stakes of environmental history for me, not as a discipline, but as an enterprise encompassing various methods in understanding past and present socio-ecological transformations, worlds, and crises.
The Great Green Wall: A Continuance of Sahelian Adaptation
Reading Time: 10 minutesIn 1986 at the Silva Conference for the Protection of the Trees and Forests in Paris, Burkinabé president Thomas Sankara delivered a speech remarkable for its foresight into the most pressing issues for Sahelians and global citizens that remain true even today.
