Each year, we follow along with Dr. Kevin Anderson, a geographer and philosopher managing the Environmental Research Center for the City of Austin, as he shares his knowledge about the world around us. In 2019, the topic is “The Geography of Flowing Water: Rivers, Streams, Nature, and Culture.”
Dr. Anderson is a geographer and philosopher, researching the nature of urban wastelands. He manages the Austin Water – Center for Environmental Research, a partnership with the University of Texas and Texas A&M University.
A full list of lecture dates and locations in Austin is available here.
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Nature In The City Podcast Episode 9: Preservation, Conservation, and the Wild This year Dr. Kevin Anderson, a geographer and philosopher managing the Environmental Research Center for the City of Austin, will take us on an exploration of “Nature and the American Mind”, examining
Nature In The City Podcast Episode 8: Carson And The Politics Of Nature This year Dr. Kevin Anderson, a geographer and philosopher managing the Environmental Research Center for the City of Austin, will take us on an exploration of “Nature and the American Mind”,
Nature In The City Podcast Episode 7: Stability, Integrity, and Leopold’s Legacy This year Dr. Kevin Anderson, a geographer and philosopher managing the Environmental Research Center for the City of Austin, will take us on an exploration of “Nature and the American Mind”, examining
Nature In The City Podcast Episode 5: Thoreau And New World Nature This year Dr. Kevin Anderson, a geographer and philosopher managing the Environmental Research Center for the City of Austin, will take us on an exploration of “Nature and the American Mind”, examining
Nature In The City Podcast Episode 4: Discordant Harmony And New Ecology This year Dr. Kevin Anderson, a geographer and philosopher managing the Environmental Research Center for the City of Austin, will take us on an exploration of “Nature and the American Mind”, examining
Nature. What role does it play in our national culture? How did it impact the very founding of America? And what does it mean for us today, as our country becomes more and more urbanized? These are the questions that Dr. Kevin Anderson is
In season two of the Nature In The City Podcast, Dr. Kevin Anderson took us on an exploration of “The Geography of Flowing Water: Rivers, Streams, Nature, and Culture.” Over the course of 12 episodes, he discussed the importance of US and Texas rivers to both our physical landscape and our local culture.
In season one of the Nature in The City Podcast, Dr. Kevin Anderson took us on an exploration of “Nature and the American Mind”, examining the complex story that threads throughout our history and shapes our beliefs, policies, science, and management practices today.
Kevin is a geographer and philosopher researching the nature of, and the nature in, urban wastelands. He studied at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania [BA], Durham University, England, Ohio University [MA] where he taught philosophy and symbolic logic. He received his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Texas at Austin with a dissertation entitled: Marginal Nature: Urban Wastelands and the Geography of Nature. His research interests include sewage treatment, soil ecology, and sustainable agriculture, urban ecology and sustainability, riparian ecology, environmental history, philosophy, and literature. He is a co-founder of the Texas Riparian Association and the Upper Tisza Foundation in northeastern Hungary. He runs the Austin Water-Center for Environmental Research which focuses on soil, sewage recycling, and environmental trace contaminants; rivers, riparian ecology, and alluvial aquifers; cities, biodiversity, and avian ecology.
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