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Integrated Environmental History of Watersheds

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Integrated Environmental History of Watersheds
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Wie haben die Menschen Flüsse im Verlauf der Geschichte verändert und welche Aspekte der Sozial- und Umweltgerechtigkeit formten das Verhältnis der Menschen zu Flüssen, vor allem aber zum Wasser? Carson Fellow Melinda Laituri beschäftigt sich mit diesen Fragen und bringt sie in ihre vergleichende Forschung von Donau und Colorado River mit ein. Digitale Daten der Flüsse werden erstellt, um die Veränderungen in der Geschichte nachzuverfolgen und auch das Recht des Menschen auf Wasser zu betrachten. Melinda Laituri erforscht die Rolle des Internet und den Einsatz von georäumlichen Technologien im Katastrophenschutz, sowie die interkulturelle Umweltgeschichte der Organisation von Flussbecken.
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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 of 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. Prof. Dr. 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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I'm Melinda Lituri, I'm from Colorado State University. I'm in the Department of Ecological Science and Sustainability there, and I'm an associate professor. I'm visiting here at the Rachel Carson Center where I'm a Carson Fellow. And I came here to really work on a comparative study
between the Danube and the Colorado. And this comes out of a much bigger study that I'm doing on several different rivers to look at how we might consider a bird's eye view of the river, things that have to do with using different types of data and information such as maps, aerial photos,
satellite images, that we might tell a different sort of history of the rivers by looking at this kind of digital data that tells maybe a more recent way of looking at the river. So for example, we're standing up here on this tower and we can see behind us this river right here.
We can track the changes in this river by looking at remotely sensed data like satellite images or aerial photos and be able to see how the channel has changed and how humans have reorganized the landscape. And I think this is very interesting. Okay, what I'm doing at the Rachel Carson Center
has two different parts to it. Because we have these research seminars we do here, I have one activity I'm working on for that project. And then we also have something that's called a work in progress where we share something that we've been working on over time and we meet all the fellows together to discuss our particular paper we may be writing
or something like that. So I'm sharing what we call the work in progress and there's a paper I've written that's talking about the human right to water. Everything I do has something to do with water and also has something to do with social or environmental justice.
And so the piece I've written has to do with the human right to water and tracking some of the global policy initiatives with respect to that. And so that's one activity I'm working on. The second one has to do with this comparative assessment of the two rivers, the Colorado and the Danube. These are two very different rivers. However, they both span the continent of,
obviously the Danube of Europe and the Colorado and the western part of the United States. While they're very different, they have very similar things going on in their landscapes. They both have headwaters where the rivers start with particular stories. They both have dams or diversion structures on their rivers
and they both have deltas that have very particular things going on in them. And so I think this makes an interesting comparison, a compare and contrast of what's going on in these places so we might better understand how we're managing these rivers.