Episode 240: Katlego Panama is a African heritage management practitioner by profession and a barista/specialty coffee enthusiast.

First appearance:

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/229-katlego-panama-on-sowetos-neighborhoods-drugs-languages-football-fans-and-culture

Andre de Ruyter (poisoned CEO of eskom):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_de_Ruyter

Episode 239 (15 Jun 2023): Rhys Evans (https://hgut.no/om-hlb/tilsette/rhys-evans/) is a professor of Human Geography at the University College of Green Development in Bryne (‘Breena’) Norway. He works to create and share tools which help local people and communities engage in projects which deliver the improvements they have identified and are willing to work towards creating. A musician who also drove trucks for a living in Canada and the USA for 25 years, he began university at the age of 39 and likes to think that his ‘groundedness’ based upon how he worked for a living gives him an important insight into how development works for people and communities and he tailors his ‘tools’ to take that into account. Some of his tools include a model of Vocational Transition in Rural Europe; the Repurposing of Cultural Heritage Assets for the 21st Century Economy; Asset-based Rural Community Development, and Regenerative Development. His main activity is working with communities who wish to improve themselves -- using EEA grants.

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/204-rhys-evans-on-bottom-up-community-development

Episode 238: Paul Hudson is an American academic with training in physical geography and geomorphology. Hudson grew up in the U.S. Deep South and moved from Austin, Texas to the Netherlands in 2010, and has been at Leiden University College since 2012. Paul has been working on environmental river management for over 25 years, and he especially works on large lowland rivers engineered for navigation and flood control.

Flooding and Management of Large Fluvial Lowlands: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/flooding-and-management-of-large-fluvial-lowlands/26198940A02EAC087D7285200F4BEF4C#fndtn-information

Paul's webpage: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/paul-hudson#tab-1

Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2015/05/cartoon-introduction-to-climate-change-the-review/

Episode 237 (1 Jun 2023): Dániel Moerman is an historian of climate and environmental history at the VU Amsterdam. His current research focuses on the impact of drought within urban environments in the Netherlands between 1500 and 1900, and the long-term development of coping strategies to alleviate drought-induced water shortages. This research is part of the NWO-sponsored research programme Coping with Drought, which is expected to finish in until 2025.

Daniel's paper: "Documentary evidence of urban droughts and their impact in the eastern Netherlands: the cases of Deventer and Zutphen, 1500–1795"

https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2022/egusphere-2022-1141/

Episode 236: Tony Turton was exposed to the Kalahari as a small boy, where he observed the flow of water from the Okavango into a desert. He later served as a soldier fighting a war in the upper Okavango basin. He then became a peacemaker and scientist, writing about the Okavango. He holds a professorship in environmental management at the University of Free State and served as a Deputy Governor of the World Water Council, but his core skills are about water as a national security risk. Today he works with scientists, engineers and mathematicians, developing AI and ML systems for complex industrial fluids.

My paper on the evolution of Dutch drinking water (and need to take over drinking water systems to protect public health): https://www.kysq.org/pubs/NL-DWCs.pdf

Episode 235 (28 Apr 2023): Thalie Ngugen, a student-researcher at LUC, and I discuss the uses (and abuses) of AIs and GPTs in an academic setting.

Episode 234 (24 Apr 2023): Robert Fletcher is an environmental anthropologist with research interests in conservation, development, ecotourism, globalization, climate change, social and resistance movements, and non-state forms of governance. He uses a political ecology approach to explore how culturally-specific understandings of human-nonhuman relations and political economic structures intersect to inform patterns of natural resource use and conflict. We discuss his new book, Failing Forward: The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Conservation

https://www.wur.nl/en/persons/robert-r-robert-fletcher-phd.htm

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520390690/failing-forward

ICCA ("territories and areas conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities” or “territories of life”): https://www.iccaconsortium.org

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359992734_A_Global_Conservation_Basic_Income_to_Safeguard_Biodiversity

Episode 233 (13 Apr 2023): Anthony was exposed to the Kalahari as a small boy, where he observed the flow of water from the Okavango into a desert. He later served as a soldier fighting a war in the upper Okavango basin. He then became a peacemaker and scientist, writing about the Okavango. He holds a professorship in environmental management at the University of Free State and served as a Deputy Governor of the World Water Council, but his core skills are about water as a national security risk. Today he works with scientists, engineers and mathematicians, developing AI and ML systems for complex industrial fluids.

Motto: "The difference between could and should is wisdom."

Prior appearance:

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/227-anthony-turton-on-apartheid-and-the-end-of-anc-power

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rand_Water

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpeville_massacre

Episode 232 (13 Mar 2023): Prof. Dr. René P. Orij is professor of corporate sustainability reporting at Nyenrode Business University. He is a member of Nyenrode's Faculty Research Center for Corporate Reporting, Finance & Tax.

https://www.nyenrode.nl/en/faculty-and-research/people/p/rené-p.-orij

Episode 231 (9 Mar 2023): Tom Jenney lives in Phoenix, Arizona. He has a degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Georgetown University. In Washington, DC and Phoenix, Tom has worked as a think tanker, fundraiser, grassroots organizer, and lobbyist. He has taught Government, Economics, and Spanish to high schoolers. He has served as a deacon and an elder at his church. He is happily married and is the adoring father of two children. In his free time, he backpacks, goes bouldering, and shoots a lot of clay targets.

https://lilburneliterary.com/american-futures/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NationStates