Serious Laughs: Environmental Films That Provoke Thought . . . and Chuckles
Environmental filmmakers can’t just rely on intellectual proof—they also must connect emotionally. These eight tales successfully use humor to reach their audiences.
What Does Quantum Computing Mean for Conservation?
The rise in new, powerful computing techniques could transform a conservation sector that has grown increasingly reliant on sophisticated modeling and visualization software to make decisions about which places are worth protecting.
Reflections on Extraction 1: Mining the Invisible
Reflecting on “Landscapes of Extraction,” CHE members explore the challenges of remembering and preserving the buried histories of mining landscapes.
The Invisible War: Emmanuel Urey on Ebola in Liberia
The current Ebola epidemic has claimed close to 4000 lives in West Africa. Edge Effects interviews CHE Graduate Associate and Liberian citizen Emmanuel Urey about the crisis.
Davis Island: A Confederate Shrine, Submerged
A visit to Jefferson Davis’s former property in Mississippi shows that, in the battles over how we remember the Civil War, the combatants are not always human.
Book Review: Dubai: The City as Corporation
Dubai: The City as Corporation is a significant contribution within the field of urban studies in the Arabian Peninsula. Dubai is often represented in both popular and academic writings as the proto-type of a global city, a desert landscape decorated by non-contextual extravagances—architectural structures varying in the form of skyscrapers, shopping malls, and museums.
Why Edge Effects?
What’s in a name? Edge effects in the history of ecology, the geography of Wisconsin, and the interdisciplinary values of CHE.