IMAGE OF THE WEEK
Dr. Karl Zimmerer (center) and the fall 2021 cohort of geography graduate students hold their GEOG 500 class outside University House near the Hintz Family Alumni Center. University House, designed by Evan Pugh, the University’s first president, was built in 1862-1864 using native stone, and employing student labor. It was designed in Georgian Colonial style. In 1895, it was remodeled in the Queen Anne style, and again renovated in 1940, each times with significant additions to the original plans. It served as the President’s Residence until 1969, and was designated University House in 1971, to be used for official functions. University House was incorporated into the Hintz Alumni Center in 1999.
GOOD NEWS
Nov. 9, noon EST, 125th Anniversary Virtual Education Series: Brian King on “Infectious Addictions: Geographies of Colliding Epidemics.” This virtual educational series is sponsored by the College’s Graduates of Earth and Mineral Sciences (GEMS) Board of Directors and will spotlight the College’s research in short interactive webinars to engage your curiosity and introduce you to our world-class faculty and alumni. Register at: https://engage.tassl.com/event/9341
Curious about undergraduate clubs in the Department of Geography? Learn about meetings, activities, and who to contact on this webpage.
COFFEE HOUR
Christopher Scott on Transboundary water governance: Possibilities and pitfalls at the nexus with energy and food security
The resource nexus was initially conceived to address potential trade-offs in resource demands. Though the concept emerged from the water sector, it has now come to consider multiple, synergistic (or competing) cross-sectoral interactions. Scott et al. (2018) advanced thinking on water, energy and food security interactions mediated by institutions operating at the nexus, though invariably incapable of crossing resource domains, jurisdictional boundaries, or substantively accounting for ecological dynamics. Security as a nexus dimension posits an implied achievable end goal, which in practice has proven elusive. Alternative framings consider resilience with a focus on adaptive action and adaptive capacity in social-ecological systems terms. With the resilience dimension, nexus resource availability, environmental hazards, and the overall function, services and limits of interlinked earth systems must be balanced.
- 4 p.m. EDT, Friday, Oct. 22
- 112 Walker Building
- Coffee Hour to Go on Zoom
NEWS
Emily Rosenman is Rock Ethics Institute Faculty Fellow for 2021–22
Her project, “Philanthropy and urban governance: the ethics of philanthropic ‘repair’ of social injustice,” investigates how philanthropic actors understand and act to alleviate racial and economic inequality through case studies of philanthropic activity in U.S. cities that are segregated by race and income and how philanthropic giving interacts with democratic decision-making and urban governance.
Via AAG Smartbrief
Behind the wire with a fence ecologist
One smoke-tinged July morning on Horse Prairie — a plateau of big sagebrush and dusty washes overlooking Horse Prairie Creek in southwestern Montana — a man sat at the helm of a skid-steer loader. Attached to its front was a spool-like contraption called a Dakota wire winder and post puller. Four volunteers threw up their thumbs — Ready! — and the man flung a switch. The winder spun up, and a stretch of woven wire fence lying on the ground jerked into motion.
Soon, a hundred-plus years of tangled Western history had become a tidy bale.