“Cornell University ecologist David Pimentel and his colleagues have estimated that invasive species cost the nation $120 billion a year. The federal government spent $2.2 billion in 2012 trying to control them and fortify the native ecosystems they trample. A new wave of environmentalists has questioned this knee-jerk vilification of invasive species, arguing that some of these creatures merely threaten an outdated ideal of...
Read MoreA recent opinion piece by Kirk Goldsberry (PhD 2007), visiting scholar at Harvard University, gained a good deal of attention because it advocated for a return of a geography department to that august institution. Sensors & Systems (S&S) special correspondent Matteo Luccio spoke with Goldsberry about his background, about the need to reveal spatial patterns, and about the importance of geography: S&S: Why did you decide to...
Read MorePeter Alagona, UCSB Associated Professor of History and Affiliated Faculty member of the Department of Geography, has recently had a book published by the University of California Press on the 40th anniversary of the landmark U.S. Endangered Species Act. As Dr. Alagona puts it, After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California “seeks to explain why Americans have often fought so bitterly about the...
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