Tag: water
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Water & the City Symposium, 23 March
Category: NewsTags: Amsterdam Rainproof, Amsterdam Water Science, city, cultural heritage, Cultural Heritage Agency, Daniël Goedbloed, Ellen Vreenegoor, hydrocitizenship, NAP, Petra van Dam, Polderdak, Resilient cities, rising sea levels, water, water managementEnvironmental Humanities Center Symposium Friday 23 March 2018, 14.00 – 17.00u Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Main Building, room 12A-00 For catering reasons, please register using the form below. Climate change, increasing rainfall, sea level rise, and flood risk pose significant challenges for low-lying countries such as The Netherlands. Historically, Amsterdam has…
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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…
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Symposium: Watermanagement before 1800 (in Dutch)
Category: NewsStudiemiddag: veenontginningen en waterbeheer voor 1800 Nederland is ontstaan uit het moeras, althans Laag-Nederland. We zijn begonnen als ontginners van de grote venen in de kustvlakte, en de eeuwen daarna zakten we er langzaam in weg. Daarom moesten we dijken gaan bouwen en polderbesturen oprichten. Deze studiemiddag presenteert nieuwe onderzoeksresultaten over de…
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Course guide 2017-2018
Category: UncategorizedTags: course guide, dystopian fiction, early modern literature, ecocriticism, environmental history, landscape, natural disasters, speculative fiction, vrije universiteit amsterdam, waterIn this course guide, we aim to provide an overview of courses that focus on topics related to the environmental humanities. The guide is a work in progress: would you like to include your course here, please contact k.steenbergh@vu.nl. We also warmly welcome course descriptions from other Dutch universities. Courses…