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DESCRIPTION:Donald W. Meinig Undergraduate LectureThis lecture will explore
  some of the many ways that humans have used rivers over time\, and how we
  continue to do so today. Since our earliest cities established along the 
 Tigris-Euphrates\, Indus\, Nile and Yellow Rivers\, anthropogenic use of r
 ivers has changed over time and varied by region. Yet their critical impor
 tance has persisted because they provide five fundamental benefits: access
 \, natural capital\, territory\, well-being and a means of projecting powe
 r. The manifestations of these benefits have changed\, but societal demand
 s for them have not.&nbsp\;Laurence C. Smith is the John Atwater and Diana
  Nelson University Professor of Environmental Studies at the Institute at 
 Brown for Environment and Society\, and professor in the Department of Ear
 th\, Environmental\, and Planetary Sciences at Brown University.&nbsp\;His
  work has appeared prominently in assessment reports of the United Nations
 ’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is currently assist
 ing NASA with a new satellite mission to monitor global water resources\, 
 and the World Economic Forum with social science issues of Arctic developm
 ent.
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SUMMARY:Rivers of Power: How an Ancient Force Rules Us Still
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<h3>Donald W. Meinig Undergraduate Lecture</h3
 ><p>This lecture will explore some of the many ways that humans have used 
 rivers over time\, and how we continue to do so today. Since our earliest 
 cities established along the Tigris-Euphrates\, Indus\, Nile and Yellow Ri
 vers\, anthropogenic use of rivers has changed over time and varied by reg
 ion. Yet their critical importance has persisted because they provide five
  fundamental benefits: access\, natural capital\, territory\, well-being a
 nd a means of projecting power. The manifestations of these benefits have 
 changed\, but societal demands for them have not.&nbsp\;</p><p>Laurence C.
  Smith is the John Atwater and Diana Nelson University Professor of Enviro
 nmental Studies at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society\, an
 d professor in the Department of Earth\, Environmental\, and Planetary Sci
 ences at Brown University.&nbsp\;His work has appeared prominently in asse
 ssment reports of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate C
 hange (IPCC). He is currently assisting NASA with a new satellite mission 
 to monitor global water resources\, and the World Economic Forum with soci
 al science issues of Arctic development.</p>
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