In the third year of the “Contested Waterway” project, the second on-site event took place in Bulgaria. The workshop titled “Old Strategies and New Priorities. How Can Historical Research Inform Sustainable Development along the Lower Danube?” was held in the Read More …
Autor: Merve Neziroglu
A City on the Lower Danube: Drobeta-Turnu Severin
Conducting field research can make you end up in places where you may have never gone otherwise. That was the case for me when I – Merve Neziroğlu, researcher at the GWZO in Leipzig – went to Romania in July Read More …
The Unexpected Afterlife of Socialist Infrastructure: The Văcărești Natural Park (Bucharest), a Vast Wetland in a Capital City
Not every infrastructural project that was launched at some point was completed, especially if a political system change took place in the meantime. In Romania’s capital Bucharest, one such legacy of the socialist past can be found, which today has Read More …
Workshop in Bucharest, 29 – 30 September 2022
About two years after the project „Contested Waterway. Governance and Ecology on the Lower Danube, 1800-2018“ was launched, the first on-site event could take place. The venue was the New Europe College in Bucharest, where a workshop titled „Disturbance on Read More …
‘The Father of the Danube’: Charles Hartley and the Transformation of the Sulina branch
In the second half of the 19th century, Sulina, one of the Danube Delta’s branches, became a hub of transnational engineering aiming to transform this perilous section of the Danube into a fully navigable waterway. Complicated hydraulic works became successful Read More …
The Canal That Made the Birds Return
A newly dug canal in the Danube Delta’s southern branch, the Sfântu Gheorghe, has made a significant impact on the local fauna and human economy. In today’s blogpost, the Romanian anthropologist and environmental historian Dr. Stefan Dorondel gives us a Read More …
The Protected Area of Kalimok-Brushlen (Калимок-Бръшлен)
About 30 miles east from the Bulgarian town Ruse (Русе), you find the Kalimok-Brushlen Protected Area (Калимок-Бръшлен) with several endangered animal and plant species. Bulgarian ethnologist Ivelina Eftimova (PhD) from Shumen University explores the impact of the channel and the Read More …