i thought some of you might be interested.....
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From: "Jan Oosthoek" <[log in to unmask]>
A new network has been launched revolving around three two-day workshops and
a website to discuss local and global processes of environmental change at
specific locations that provide rich practical examples of such changes.
The first workshop will be held at Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire (Britain’s
first nature reserve). The second workshop will take place at Kielder Water
and Forest, Northumberland (northern Europe’s largest artificial lake and
Europe’s largest planted forest). The third workshop is Quantock Hills,
Somerset (first designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty). Each site
serves as an instructive example of different types of environmental change,
anthropogenic and autogenic, long-term and short-term, as well as instances
of continuity. At these site-specific workshops, a core team of mainly
academic participants will meet with representatives of a local,
non-university project partner to critically examine what we mean by 'the
environment' and 'environmental change' in both current and past contexts,
and on local and international scales.
Network activities and findings will be disseminated more widely during its
lifetime through its website. The site will provide details of workshops and
their locations, podcasts of interviews with the leadership team, project
partners and other workshop participants, and videocasts of the workshop
sites, as well as working and summary papers. You can participate in the
network by leaving comments or contribute to the discussion by using the
posting and discussion tool on the website.
The History of Environmental Change Network also provides more efficient
ways of staying up to date with the activities of the network. To achieve
this we provide two free subscription options: an RSS feed and a Twitter
feed. Subscribe also for free to the podcast, Launch of new online network:
http://www.environmentalhistories.net/podcastfeed/podcast.xml
To find out more about the Histories of Environmental Change project visit
the website at http://www.environmentalhistories.net and subscribe to our
Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/envirohistories.
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