Eric Sanderson
Professor | Mapping Nature's Resilience in the Anthropocene
Most recently at TED in 2009.
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Eric Sanderson is a Professor at the Wildlife Conservation Society and Columbia University, where he leads the Mannahatta Project mapping the historical ecology of New York City. As the author of 'Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City' and 'Terra Nova: The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs', Sanderson combines cutting-edge geospatial analysis with deep historical research to illuminate the intricate relationships between humans and the natural world. His forward-thinking keynotes inspire audiences to reimagine the built environment as a space for harmonious coexistence with the environment.
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New York -- before the City
400 years after Hudson found New York harbor, Eric Sanderson shares how he made a 3D map of Mannahatta's fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers, wildlife -- accurate down to the block -- when Times Square was a wetland and you couldn't get delivery.
1 talk, all in 2009
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