Kari Henquinet published an article “Production of Knowledge: International Development Agencies: Sahelian West Africa” in the collaborative project Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Online (Brill publishing). The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Online crosses history, geographic borders and disciplines to create a groundbreaking reference work reflecting the very latest research on gender studies and the Islamic world. Read More
John Baeten, IHA PhD Candidate, recently had a post published by NiCHE (Network in Canadian History and Environment) for their “Seeds: New Research in Environmental History” Series, titled: “Busting Ghosts: Building an HGIS to Reveal Historical Mine Waste Producers and Develop Strategies to Mitigate Future Risk”
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ohn Baeten, Nancy Langston, and Don Lafreniere recently published an article titled: “A Geospatial Approach to Uncovering the Hidden Waste Footprint of Lake Superior’s Mesabi Iron Range” published in The Extractive Industries and Society.
The article is available for download until January 26, 2017 at the following link: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1UAjI,oMyQ5uEu
Article Abstract: “For decades, the Lake Superior Iron District produced a significant majority of the world’s iron used in steel production. Chief among these was the Mesabi Range of northern Minnesota, a vast deposit of hematite and magnetic taconite ores stretching for over 100 miles in length. Iron ore mining in the Mesabi Range involved three major phases: direct shipping ores (1893–1970s), washable ores (1907– 1980s), and taconite (1947–current). Each phase of iron mining used different technologies to extract and process ore. Producing all of this iron yielded a vast landscape of mine waste. This paper uses a historical GIS to illuminate the spatial extent of mining across the Lake Superior Iron District, to locate where low- grade ore processing took place, and to identify how and where waste was produced. Our analysis shows that the technological shift to low-grade ore mining placed new demands on the environment, primarily around processing plants. Direct shipping ore mines produced less mine waste than low-grade ore mines, and this waste was confined to the immediate vicinity of mines themselves. Low-grade ore processing, in contrast, created more dispersed waste landscapes as tailings mobilized from the mines themselves into waterbodies and human communities.”
Jennifer Lind-Riehl ’15, Audrey L. Mayer (SS), Adam Wellstead (SS) and Oliver Gailing (SFRES) published a paper entitled “Hybridization, agency discretion, and implementation of the U.S. Endangered Species Act” in Conservation Biology. You can find the paper here.
Jonathan E. Robins has published a new book, “Cotton and Race across the Atlantic,” part of the History of Africa and the African Diaspora series of the University of Rochester Press. The book shows how economics, politics and racial ideologies shaped the development of cotton agriculture in Africa and America in the early twentieth century.
Click here for more information on the book.
Adam Wellstead co-authored a paper “Canada’s Regional Adaptation Collaboratives and Adaptation Platform: The importance of scaling up and scaling down climate change governance experiments” in Climate Services. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405880716300383
Adam Wellstead (SS) and Dean Carson (Charles Darwin University) are winners of the 2015 Sam Richardson Award for the best paper published in the 2015 volume of Australian Journal of Public Administration. The paper was titled “Government with a Cast of Dozens: Policy Capacity Risks and Policy Work in the Northern Territory.”
Audrey Mayer and Ashma Vaidya, who recently completed her PhD degree requirements in environmental and energy policy, published an article “Critical Review of the Millennium Project in Nepal” in Sustainability 2016, 8(10), 1043; doi:10.3390/su8101043
Chelsea Schelly (SS) and Aparajita Banerjee, who recently completed her PhD degree requirements in environmental and energy policy, published “Soft Energy Paths Revisited: Politics and Practice in Energy Technology Transitions” Challenges 2016, 7(2), 16; doi:10.3390/challe7020016
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Ashma Vaidya, who graduated in summer 2016 with a PhD in Environmental and Energy Policy, has published three papers on the sustainability of woody biomass in the UP for bioenergy:
Vaidya A and AL Mayer. 2014. Use of the participatory approach to develop sustainability assessments for natural resource management. International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 21(4):369-379.
Vaidya A and AL Mayer. 2016. Use of multiple criteria analysis to develop a regional assessment tool for bioenergy production. Biomass and Bioenergy 94:1-11.
Vaidya A and AL Mayer. In press. Criteria and indicators for a bioenergy production industry via stakeholder participation. International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology. DOI:10.1080/13504509.2015.1135830
Contact Audrey Mayer for reprints.
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