Landscape Architecture

Children swinging on the pond’s banyan tree. Image courtesy of the author.

FeatureMarch 4, 2020

The Gift of Water

India today faces a wide variety of issues related to water management. These include flooding during the several-month monsoon season, a lack of water during the dry season, depletion of groundwater stores, and unreliable water pipelines bringing water into cities…

Along the Flamingo Arroyo Wash and Bike Trail where the wetland is fed primarily by urban runoff. Image courtesy of the author.

GeographiesMarch 4, 2020

Invisible Infrastructure: Documenting the Hidden Flood Control Infrastructure in Las Vegas

By Jessica Rossi-Mastracci Las Vegas. A city branded by sin, vice, and extravagance. A city where “anything goes,” including gambling, the Strip, partying, strip…

Education Landscape Architecture United States

A solar panel on the roof of a Parisian building. Notre Dame is in the background.

The PulseJune 28, 2016

Towards the Water-Sensitive City

By Gary Grant

With changing climate, demographic patterns, and increasing urban concentration, cities will have to become more “water sensitive” than ever before. This short essay offers some tips.

The Nature of Cities

Civil Engineering International Landscape Architecture Planning / Policy Policy

Gardner Marsh at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum is pictured in an aerial view during an autumn sunset on Oct. 5, 2011. On the horizon is the UW-Madison campus and downtown Madison skyline. The photograph was made from a helicopter looking northeast. (Photo by Jeff Miller/UW-Madison)

The PulseDecember 9, 2015

Small landscape changes can mean big freshwater gains

By Jenny Seifert

University of Wisconsin study finds that small adjustments in agricultural and “working” landscapes can have large benefits in improving water quality.

University of Wisconsin-Madison News

Biological Sciences Landscape Architecture Mississippi River Basin

Issue Contents

Introduction

Introduction to Issue 21

We refer to the issue as “Women & Water: Calling” because collectively these articles demonstrate the ways that water calls to people, drawing women...

By Laurie Moberg

Feature

Mariners, Makers, Matriarchs: Changing Relationships Between Coast Salish Women & Water

Historically, Coast Salish female identity depended upon water. Waterways provided women with countless economic opportunities, fostered family ties, created plentiful food sources, and encouraged...

By Alexandra M. Peck

Feature

Collaboration for a Common Goal

We seek to tell a story that demonstrates how combining a common goal with compromise and deliberate action leads to creative solutions and meaningful...

By Mollie Aronowitz, Jennifer Terry, Ruth McCabe, and Mary Beth Stevenson

Feature

How the River Moves Us: Women Speak Their Story

As a work of social choreography, Niimikaage is meant to listen to the movement of the Mississippi River through the lives of people connected...

By Victoria Bradford Styrbicki

Geographies

Floodplains and Hurricanes: Mapping Natural Disasters to Uncover Vulnerable Communities

Using GIS mapping, I can identify at-risk communities most impacted by water-related natural disasters in the Houston Metropolitan Area (HMA), which is highly susceptible...

By Kristin Osiecki

In Review

On Rivers, Women, and Canoes

Open Rivers contacted Natalie Warren, author of Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic, to talk about her...

By Natalie Warren and Phyllis Mauch Messenger

Perspectives (Peer Review)

The Summit of STEM: Navigating the Uneven Terrain

Endless hours writing and analyzing samples in the lab was not the most difficult part of graduate school, however. It was walking into a...

By Ayooluwateso Coker

Perspectives

Water as Weapon: Gender and WASH

The association between WASH services and gendered vulnerability to violence in rural locales and urban slums in developing countries has received the most study,...

By Becky L. Jacobs

Perspectives

Women Landowners and the Language of Partnership Needed for Water Quality Change

In the Midwest, women landowners are one of the most powerful populations who can effect real change in water quality. Their potential, however, has...

By Linda Shenk, Jean Eells, and Wren Almitra

Primary Sources

Time and Trauma

Through interviews, surveys and focus group discussions with 258 households in Mathare during 2016 and 2017, I found that women faced huge challenges and...

By Anindita Sarkar

Teaching and Practice (Peer Review)

Co-creating a Learning Refugia by Walking Alone and Together

With more-than-human mentors as teachers and guides, we ask of ourselves, and each of you readers: What does it mean to know a place...

By Marijke Hecht, Michelle King, and Shimira Williams

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