Episode 5 of the envirohistory NZ podcast series is now out. This episode explores the critical link between environmental history and the decisions we make about how we shape and live within the environment. To illustrate the importance of environmental history in helping to inform environmental policy and planning decisions, this episode reflects on two recent natural disasters – the February 22nd Canterbury earthquake and the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in north-eastern Japan. (more…)
April 5, 2011
envirohistory NZ podcast – episode 5 out now!
Posted by envirohistorynz under commentary | Tags: Canterbury earthquake, disasters, envirohistory NZ, Environmental History, environmental planning, environmental policy, episode 5, Japan, Northeast Japan, podcast, Tohoku, tsunami |Leave a Comment
March 13, 2011
Nature strikes again – beautiful Tohoku’s coastal towns devastated by tsunami
Posted by envirohistorynz under commentary | Tags: 11 March 2011, Ainu, Asiatic black bear, Christchurch earthquake, coastal towns, earthquake, Hayachine Shrine, Iwate, Japan, Jomon, Kamaishi, map of Tohoku, Miyako, New Zealand, Ofunato, Rikuzentakata, tidal wave, Tohoku, tsunami, Yamadera Temple, Yayoi |[6] Comments
Once again, I find myself writing about a place that I hold great affection for, after it has been devastated by a natural disaster [see also: Christchurch - a city haunted by its environmental past]. This time the north-east of Japan, where a tsunami (tidal wave) of up to 10 metres high struck the eastern coast, following the magnitude 8.9 earthquake of 11 March. (more…)
May 1, 2011
Scandinavians, earthquakes & whales: top 5 posts of first quarter of 2011
Posted by envirohistorynz under commentary | Tags: Canterbury earthquake, Christchurch, Environmental History, Japanese tsunami, last whaling station, Manawatu, New Zealand, Palmerston North, Perano, Scandanavian settlers, Tohoku, top 5 posts of quarter, urban wetland, Waitangi Park, Wellington, whaling |Leave a Comment
1. The Scandinavian settlers of the Manawatu
2. Waitangi Park – an urban wetland recreated
3. Christchurch: a city haunted by its environmental past? (more…)
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