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Curated Group: Water
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This group collects think pieces and videos that reveal some of humanity’s multifarious responses to water.
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There is No End to Out | M. NourbeSe Philip reads from Zong!
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Poet M. NourbeSe Philip reads from her poem Zong! as part of the Black Outdoors Working Group’s closing event, “There…
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From Local Knowledge: Ecological Relationships in the World of Water
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This essay focuses on the supportive efforts of Tropenbos International Colombia to bring to light the vast knowledge and close relationship indigenous peoples in the Colombian Amazon have with their surroundings.
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Name and Draw: An Exploration of Communicating Traditional Knowledge in the Work of Abel Rodríguez
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Indigenous peoples possess a close and complex relationship with their surroundings and have gathered from their traditions and life experiences invaluable and extensive knowledge of a wide range of academic research areas.
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Environmental Activism in the Middle East: Prospects and Challenges
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Environmental activism has intensified across the Middle East and North Africa over the past few decades, focusing primarily on environmental issues that affect public health, livelihoods, and essential services.
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What Water Teaches: Wissenschaft in the Age of Sea Level Rise
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Does the sense of urgency occasioned by global warming and sea level rise have the power to reshape the humanities? Insofar as sea level rise will affect thousands of institutions of education and culture in coastal cities, the answer is yes.
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Water Security in the Middle East and North Africa
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This essay details the causes of and status of freshwater scarcity in this region and its broad and alarming economic, social, and political implications, which have a direct bearing on the area’s growth and security.
Keyword: water
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