Tag: drought
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Podcast: Prof. Petra van Dam on Coping with Drought
Category: NewsIn the latest episode of the Blue History Network podcast, Amelie Homp interviews Petra van Dam about her research on climate adaptation and drinking water management in the Netherlands. They explore historical droughts and floods, the inequalities in coping mechanisms, and lessons for current policies and individual actions regarding climate…
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Symposium report: Urban Past, Urban Future? Sustainable Drinking Water in Dutch Cities, 1500-1900
Category: UncategorizedOn Thursday the 17th of March 2022, the project team Omgaan met droogte or Coping with Drought which includes EHC Board members Petra van Dam and Dániel Moerman, hosted their first Symposium as an EHC special event. In a hybrid format, with more than 30 attendants combined in person and on…
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EHC Special Event: Symposium, “Urban Past, Urban Future? Sustainable Drinking Water in Dutch Cities, 1500-1900”
Category: UncategorizedDuring this interdisciplinary symposium the members of the VU-N.W.O. research project Omgaan met waterschaarste (Coping with drought, 2020-2025) will present some preliminary conclusions of their research.
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New publication: Environmental History and Water Management
Category: NewsDrought, flooding. Water is the main environmental problem of the near future, already the cause of wars. How did we deal with water in the past? This summer, the results of a large research project into the history of water were published in a special issue of the journal Environment…