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Dr. Philip Gooding (IOWC, McGill) welcomes Prof. Ruth Mostern (Pittsburgh) to discuss her 2021 book, The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History. They ...
From Neolithic times to the present day, the Yellow River and its watershed have both shaped and been shaped by human society. Using extensive documentary re...
28 wrz 2021 · Using the Yellow River to illustrate the long-term effects of environmentally significant human activity, Ruth Mostern unravels the long history of the human relationship with water and soil and the consequences, at times disastrous, of ecological transformations that resulted from human decisions.
28 wrz 2021 · As Mostern follows the Yellow River through three millennia of history, she underlines how governments consistently ignored the dynamic interrelationships of the river’s varied ecosystems—grasslands, riparian forests, wetlands, and deserts—and the ecological and cultural impacts of their policies.
28 wrz 2021 · Using the Yellow River to illustrate the long-term effects of environmentally significant human activity, Ruth Mostern unravels the long history of the human relationship with water and soil and the consequences, at times disastrous, of ecological transformations that resulted from human decisions.
28 wrz 2021 · As Mostern follows the Yellow River through three millennia of history, she underlines how governments consistently ignored the dynamic interrelationships of the river’s varied...
23 sie 2023 · In this interview, Ruth Mostern discusses her book The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History which was published by Yale University Press in 2021 and was the winner of the 2023 Joseph Levenson Prize from the Association of Asian Studies.
