Category: po river
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Visualizing Water’s Pasts: The Space and Time of Water Uses in the Po River Valley
Last fall I had the chance to speak about “Visualizing Water’s Pasts: The Space and Time of Water Uses in the Po River Valley” at the 2014 edition of the Sagan National Colloquium at Ohio Wesleyan University, entitled ” H2O-Water in Our World”. I am really grateful to the organizers for inviting me. If you…
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Aqueducts 1800-1940: An Animated Map
As part of my Marie Curie research project, I am currently developing a historical GIS of water uses in the Po Valley, 1860 to the present. This includes hydroelectricity, irrigation canals, urban waterworks, and so forth. It’s a lengthy – and sometimes tedious – process, which involves digitizing and geo-referencing a considerable amount of different…
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Exploring the Po River Delta: An Experiment in Digital Multimedia Storytelling
This post was originally published on Seeing the Woods – A blog by the Rachel Carson Center: One of the most important things I have learnt over these years of research is that the “archive of the feet” is as vital to history as it is to geography. Historians, and especially environmental historians, should not…
