By mober079 The PulseMarch 2, 2020

A Mini-Mississippi River May Help Save Louisiana’s Vanishing Coast

Researcher putting dye into the Mini-Mississippi River to study water flows round a proposed diversion. — A Mini-Mississippi River May Help Save Louisiana’s Vanishing Coast https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/climate/louisiana-mississippi-river-model.html?te=1&nl=climate-fwd:&emc=edit_clim_20200226&campaign_id=54&instance_id=16305&segment_id=21646&user_id=e3258b096f13b881d48f8fbef8cf0f1e&regi_id=11191408720200226

Laboratory model of the lower Mississippi River tests plans for sediment diversion, Gulf Coast restoration.

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Civil Engineering Lower Mississippi River Planning / Policy Research

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Introduction

Introduction to Issue 22 | Women & Water: Confrontation

By Laurie Moberg, Editor As part of our core values, Open Rivers publishes work that recognizes the interconnectedness of human and biogeophysical systems. Rarely,...

By Laurie Moberg, Editor

Feature (Peer Review)

Storying the Floods: Experiments in Feminist Flood Futures

Life in Wisconsin’s Kickapoo River and Coon Creek watersheds, the focus of our Driftless work, has been punctuated by major floods in 2007, 2008,...

By Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Margot Higgins, Tamara Dean, Eric Booth, and Rebecca Lave

Feature (Peer Review)

Formless Like Water: Defensoras and the Work of Water Protection

In this article, I write about defensoras del agua y medio ambiente, water and environmental defenders: the women participating in an anti-extractivist struggle in...

By Natalia Guzmán Solano

Feature (Peer Review)

Women and Urban Waterways in Korean Modernist Literature

Pak T’ae-wŏn’s 1938 modernist novel Scenes from Ch’ŏnggye Stream (Ch’ŏnbyŏn p’unggyŏng, 천변풍경) is one thought-provoking example of these human-environment relationships in literature. Scenes from...

By Anne Whitehouse

Feature

Every summer in my childhood my parents took me and my sister to beaches in Maine, mountain lakes in our home state of New...

By Shannon LeBlanc

Feature

...Every time I’ve entered the open water I’ve done so filled with some degree of fear. That being said, each time I’ve exited, I’ve...

By Aizita Magaña

Geographies

Resonant Rivers: Water, Indigenous Relationality, and Other Futures

Two sets of rivers in what is now known as Canada are vital actors in urban landscapes. The McIntyre and Kaministiquia Rivers in Thunder...

By Caroline Fidan Tyler Doenmez

In Review

We Are On Dakhóta Land: A Review of Diane Wilson’s The Seed Keeper

By Racquel Banaszak Diane Wilson’s novel, The Seed Keeper, explores Indigenous ways of being, knowing, and understanding through multigenerational narratives of Dakhóta women. Each...

By Racquel Banaszak

Perspectives

Water Memories: Exploring Our Relationship With Water

By Lee Vue The beginning of my life was shaped by the vast agricultural lands of Fresno, California where my parents had immigrated from...

By Lee Vue

Primary Sources

Women & Water: Inspiration and Resources

By Racquel Banaszak, Caroline Doenmez, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Becky Jacobs, Shannon LeBlanc, Phyllis Mauch Messenger, Lee Vue, and Anne Whitehouse Note from the Editor...

By Racquel Banaszak, Caroline Doenmez, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Becky Jacobs, Shannon LeBlanc, Phyllis Mauch Messenger, Lee Vue, and Anne Whitehouse

Teaching and Practice

Fisher Women and Job Insecurity in West Africa

By Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood West Africa’s fisher women are experts at coping with job insecurity – but policymakers are using their resilience against them All along...

By Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood

Editorial

By Open Rivers Editorial Staff For seven years, Open Rivers has shared provocative and meaningful articles with our growing audience based on the research, narratives,...

By Open Rivers Editorial Staff

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