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2. Predicting and communicating flood risk of transport infrastructure based on watershed characteristics
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Michielsen, Astrid (author), Kalantari, Zahra (author), Lyon, Steve W. (author), and Liljegren, Eva (author)
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-11-01
- Published:
- Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10620
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Environmental Management
- Journal Title Details:
- 182: 505-518
- Notes:
- 14 pages., via online journal., This research aims to identify and communicate water-related vulnerabilities in transport infrastructure, specifically flood risk of road/rail-stream intersections, based on watershed characteristics. This was done using flooding in Värmland and Västra Götaland, Sweden in August 2014 as case studies on which risk models are built. Three different statistical modelling approaches were considered: a partial least square regression, a binomial logistic regression, and artificial neural networks. Using the results of the different modelling approaches together in an ensemble makes it possible to cross-validate their results. To help visualize this and provide a tool for communication with stakeholders (e.g., the Swedish Transport Administration - Trafikverket), a flood ‘thermometer’ indicating the level of flooding risk at a given point was developed. This tool improved stakeholder interaction and helped highlight the need for better data collection in order to increase the accuracy and generalizability of modelling approaches.
3. Seeing green: lifecycles of an arctic agricultural frontier
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Price, Mindy Jewell (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2023-07-14
- Published:
- USA: Wiley Periodicals LLC
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12929
- Journal Title:
- Rural Sociology
- Journal Title Details:
- V. 0, N.0
- Notes:
- 31 pages, Imaginaries of empty, verdant lands have long motivated agricultural frontier expansion. Today, climate change, food insecurity, and economic promise are invigorating new agricultural frontiers across the circumpolar north. In this article, I draw on extensive archival and ethnographic evidence to analyze mid-twentieth-century and recent twenty-first-century narratives of agricultural development in the Northwest Territories, Canada. I argue that the early frontier imaginary is relatively intact in its present lifecycle. It is not simply climactic forces that are driving an emergent northern agricultural frontier, but rather the more diffuse and structural forces of capitalism, governmental power, settler colonialism, and resistance to those forces. I also show how social, political, and infrastructural limits continue to impede agricultural development in the Northwest Territories and discuss how smallholder farmers and Indigenous communities differently situate agricultural production within their local food systems. This paper contributes to critical debates in frontiers and northern agriculture literature by foregrounding the contested space between the state-driven and dominant public narratives underpinning frontier imaginaries, and the social, cultural, and material realities that constrain them on a Northwest Territories agricultural frontier.
4. The problem: climate change, politics and the media
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kunelius, Risto (author) and Eide, Elisabeth (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08848
- Notes:
- Pages 1-32 in Kunelius, Risto Eide, Elisabeth Tegelberg, Matthew Yagodin, Dmitry (eds.), Media and global climate knowledge: journalism and the IPCC. United States: Palgrave Macmillan, New York City, New York. 309 pages.