Perhaps the most vital lesson from environmental history?
In my last post, I wrote about how environmental history can help us to progress discussions about fresh water today - one of the...
How environmental history can help shift debate beyond the 'blame game'
The next question I have been asked is "Why is it important to understand the history of our relationship with rivers?" There are many...
Why write about rivers?
Since New Zealand's Rivers has been released, I have had a number of opportunities to talk to journalists and others about the book and...
How we divide our landscape
Perhaps nowhere tells more starkly of the duality in our relationship towards the natural environment than Taranaki: the dichotomy of the...
How we 'denature' nature
The fact that a 'drain' is a 'waterway' first occurred to me when I was in my late 20s, when I worked in an industrial part of...
How much do we care about nature we can't see?
I have just been reading Rebecca Macfie's Listener article about the Waitaha River, on the West Coast of the South Island, almost...
You are invited to New Zealand's Rivers launch - 17 November
If you haven't received your invitation yet, and would like to come along, please RSVP to Canterbury University Press by 10th November....
What's in Rivers?
A few people have asked what New Zealand's Rivers is about - which is a reasonable question. By way of answering this, here is a...
'Rivers' has arrived, and it looks great!
This week a preview copy of my new book New Zealand's Rivers: An environmental history, arrived from the printing press overseas. It...
Manawatu River history talk
I will be doing a talk about my book Ravaged Beauty, with a focus on the Manawatu River, at the historic Ashhurst Community Library (see...
