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“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has questioned this knee-jerk vilification of invasive species, arguing that some of these creatures merely threaten an outdated ideal of...

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A 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...

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Peter 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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