Rochester's rivers, lake, and waste: teaching local environmental history using water case studies.

Case studies Great lakes Pedagogy Pollution Recreation

Journal

Water history
ISSN: 1877-7236
Titre abrégé: Water Hist
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101679603

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2020
Historique:
received: 21 08 2020
accepted: 19 11 2020
pubmed: 16 12 2020
medline: 16 12 2020
entrez: 15 12 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

In a non-majors upper-level undergraduate environmental history course focused on the Laurentian Great Lakes, students researched and wrote micro-histories of the Rochester, NY area. Many were focused on water-quantity, quality, recreation, and pollution. This article briefly explains the approach and its potential applications to other interdisciplinary water courses. Then five of the original micro-water history cases are presented. It concludes with the lessons learned as a class and for teaching local water history in the future incorporating the previous class' findings.

Identifiants

pubmed: 33318773
doi: 10.1007/s12685-020-00270-4
pii: 270
pmc: PMC7727453
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

345-359

Informations de copyright

© Springer Nature B.V. 2020.

Auteurs

Kristina Chomiak (K)

Environmental Sciences Program, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA.

David Connell (D)

Environmental Sciences Program, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA.

Devin Cooley (D)

Mechanical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA.

Hannah Saxena (H)

Environmental Sciences Program, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA.

Sydney Van Winkle (S)

Environmental Sciences Program, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA.

Kaitlin Stack Whitney (K)

Science Technology & Society Department, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA.

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