The Shifting Shorelines Global Working Group aims to understand and respond to changes in historical and present-day interfaces between land and water, both close to campus and around the world.
About the Project
In an age of intensifying floods, sea level rise, subsurface resource extraction, and freshwater scarcity, shorelines are increasingly unstable and crucial sites of both geopolitical conflict and urgent infrastructural and ecological repair. The Shifting Shorelines Global Working Group aims to understand and respond to changes in historical and present-day interfaces between land and water, both close to campus and around the world. The group brings together scholars from the arts, humanities, social sciences, sciences, and legal studies with expertise in the study of North, South and Latin America, Africa, east Asia, the Pacific, and Northern and Southern Europe, working on a range of topics, from strategic island building to coastal resilience planning, marsh drainage, ecological restoration, dam construction and river management, water rights, and pressing questions of environmental justice.
