Op-Ed | An Open Letter to Chancellor Joan Gabel
We, a group of University of Pittsburgh educators, are standing in solidarity with the students who established the “liberation zone” in support of Palestine on Schenley Plaza.
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We, a group of University of Pittsburgh educators, are standing in solidarity with the students who established the “liberation zone” in support of Palestine on Schenley Plaza.
Probing the past to better understand the present and prepare for an uncertain future. I think it’s fair to say that no field of history has grown more swiftly—in quantity or sophistication—in the 21st century than environmental history. The reason is, I suspect, self-evident: it’s in part a scholarly response to global warming, biodiversity loss, volatile and extreme weather events, and climate change–related diseases.
Deforestation, erosion on the Loess Plateau caused the Chinese to construct levees to tame the river, in turn, worsening the risk of flooding
The historian discusses her book on China’s imperial water management and how its insights relate to the present