At the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference in Bern, The White Horse Press awarded their Poster Prize to the “Coping With Drought” project. They write: “A judging committee comprising Sarah Johnson (of WHP), Marianna Dudley (ESEH Vice-President), Sebastian Depretto (University of Bern) and Anastasia Fedotova (ESEH regional representative for Russia) examined a dozen posters and concluded that Bob Pierik and Petra van Dam deserved the highest award for their ‘Who Drinks which Water?’ which combines graphic clarity, immediate attractiveness, and the effective integration of a lot of information and types of images without being text-heavy or cluttered. In short, the prototype academic poster!”
Bob Pierik writes: “Our poster is meant as an introduction to the Coping with Drought project. We tried to capture three abstract themes in environmental history with case studies from our research. The first theme ‘plurality’ is meant to show that water in early modern society was not a single entity, but that there was a lot of variation of water sources and water use. With ‘locality’, we wanted to show this diversity across geographic scales: from the micro-infrastructure of a cistern to the much larger scale of the water infrastructure of the entire Dutch Republic. Finally, with ‘environmental (in)justice,’ we raise the question to what extent water access varied and especially poorer neighbourhoods and households had poorer access to water.”
For a high-resolution version of the poster, please visit the ESEH website.
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