Outputs (2)

Glacial Deaths, Geologic Extinction (2021)
Journal Article
Schmidt, J. J. (2021). Glacial Deaths, Geologic Extinction. Environmental Humanities, 13(2), 281-300. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9320156

In 2019, several funerals were held for glaciers. If enough glaciers die, could they go extinct? Is there geologic extinction? Yes. This article develops three arguments to support this claim. The first revisits Georges Cuvier’s original argument for... Read More about Glacial Deaths, Geologic Extinction.

Values-Based Scenarios of Water Security: Rights to Water, Rights of Waters, and Commercial Water Rights (2021)
Journal Article
Jenkins, W., Rosa, L., Schmidt, J., Band, L., Beltran-Peña, A., Clarens, A., …D'Odorico, P. (2021). Values-Based Scenarios of Water Security: Rights to Water, Rights of Waters, and Commercial Water Rights. Bioscience, 71(11), 1157-1170. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab088

Although a wide body of scholarly research recognizes multiple kinds of values for water, water security assessments typically employ just some of them. In the present article, we integrate value scenarios into a planetary water security model to inc... Read More about Values-Based Scenarios of Water Security: Rights to Water, Rights of Waters, and Commercial Water Rights.