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Rusting Rivers: Alarms Grows Over Uptick in Acidic Arctic Waters
How eight beavers solved a Tube flooding problem engineers have been trying to fix for years
Tell Congress, EPA to reject polluters’ bidding: no backsliding on toxic coal ash
Where water flows, equality grows
Plagued by Flooding, an African City Reengineers Its Wetlands
As Floods Worsen, Pakistan Is the Epicenter of Climate Change
‘Sponge City’: Copenhagen Adapts to a Wetter Future
Texas flash flood is a preview of the chaos to come
Interview on Water, floods and scarcity
Interview on Waterland: The importance of reflecting on water and land at ISS
Saturday University: Talk on Reimagining the Ganges River in North Bihar, India
Podcast Between The Lines, interviewed by Lyla Metha, IDS
The Art of Living with Floods: Dr. Luisa Cortesi’s interview at the Gardner Center for Asian Art, SAAM, Seattle
EASST-4S Ecologies of Knowledge and Knowledge of Ecology PANEL
Dead cows, cancer and Teflon tomatoes: how harmful are PFAS?
Bond, 2021. Contamination in theory and protest
(February, 2023) Toxic Train Fiasco: Bad PR Breeds Distrust in East Palestine, Ohio
(February, 2023) Homes in Flood Zones Overvalued by Billions, Study Finds
Cortesi, L. (2022). Dug-Well Revival: An Ethnographic Project for Drinking Water in North Bihar, India. In Profiles of Anthropological Praxis: An International Casebook (pp. 187-204). Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800734661
Cortesi, L. (2022). Hydrotopias and waterland. Geoforum, 131, 215-222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.11.014
Cortesi, L., & Camargo, A. (Eds.). (2022). Land-Water Nexus [Special issue]. Geoforum, 131, 215–259. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10KNVPH237Q
Cortesi, L. (2021). An Ontology of Water and Land in North Bihar, India. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 27(4), 870-889. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13611
Cortesi, L., & Joy, K. J. (2021). Split Waters: The Idea of Water Conflicts. (1st edition ed.) Taylor & Francis Ltd (UK). Available at: https://pure.eur.nl/en/publications/water-conflicts-the-social-life-of-an-idea/
Cortesi, L., & Joy, K. J. (2021). Water Conflicts: The Social Life of an Idea. In Split Waters: The Idea of Water Conflicts (pp. 1-25). Taylor & Francis Ltd (UK). Available at: https://pure.eur.nl/en/publications/water-conflicts-the-social-life-of-an-idea/
(August, 2020) Inequality at the Boiling Point
(July, 2020) NYT: The Amazon River is a source of life and death
(July, 2020) The way India manages his dams is the perfect recipe for a disaster
(July, 2020) Water fleas can warn about water pollution
(June, 2020) NYT: How one shoreline took the lives of 7 young people
(June, 2020) Coronavirus was already in Italy by December, waste water study finds
Participating in California State Water Board Meetings during the COVID-19 Emergency
(June, 2020) Living through cyclone Amphan and Covid-19 in India: Climate change and water security
Camargo, A., & Cortesi, L. (2019). Flooding Water and Society. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 6(5), 1-9. Article e1374. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1374
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