It is often remarked that knowledge is power, but through its collaboration with the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), UCSB Geography Department’s Climate Hazards Group (CHG) seeks to turn knowledge into food. For the past several years, the CHG has been working with FEWS NET to build a global network of data collection and to develop data analysis tools designed to help decision makers and stakeholders mitigate...
Read MoreThe following article with the title above is from The American Scholar, Volume 79, No. 3, Summer 2010. Copyright c 2010 by Bret Wallach. The observations were made 4 years ago and still resonate today: We still argue over how to explain the great events of the post-Pleistocene. There’s the Neolithic Revolution for starters. Then the appearance of complex societies, as foolish a phrase as any, but the concise term civilization...
Read MoreThe UCSB Geography Newsletter is a biannual production, and electronic mailings occur in spring and fall each year. you can download a PDF of the 2014 Spring Newsletter here. The featured news item in this edition revolves around the Geography Department’s 40th Anniversary celebration, April 24-25. A Geography colloquium presentation by Professor Frank Davis will be given on the 24th, 3:30 – 5:00 pm, relating to the past,...
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