The Author: Dr. Josh MacFadyen
I am a Canada Research Chair in Geospatial Humanities and an Associate Professor in the Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture program at the University of Prince Edward Island, in Charlottetown, PEI. I am the director of the GeoREACH Lab which supports Geospatial Research in Atlantic Canadian History. Read more about my work at UPEI at my ACLC program page. For ongoing updates on the research I do at UPEI, see the website of the GeoREACH Lab.
Prior to coming to UPEI, I was Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies and the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. In 2014 I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Historical GIS Lab at the University of Saskatchewan, and from 2010-2014 I was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow and then NiCHE Project Coordinator at the University of Western Ontario.
Some of the projects I’ve been involved in include NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment and the Sustainable Farm Systems (SFS) partnership. SFS is an interdisciplinary team of scholars who examine energy flows, soil nutrient balances, landscape ecology and other measures of sustainability in agro-ecosystems. More broadly, I am interested in the problems of modern agriculture and how Canadians did — and could — stay warm and fed in a world with much less fossil fuel.
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- Other Plans: Development and Agriculture in Prince Edward IslandThis article originally appeared on The Otter ~ La loutre, 27 June, 2019. Link to original article. By Josh MacFadyen and Nick Scott* The roots of Canada’s food system run deep. They permeate …
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- Go Big or Go SpruceThis article originally appeared on The Otter ~ La loutre, 2 April 2018. Link to original article. Editor’s note: This is the third article in “Soundings,” a series of articles jointly published by The …
- Will it Play in Peoria, AlbertaThis article originally appeared on The Otter ~ La loutre, 22 January 2018. Link to original article. This is the fourth post in a series on “Canada’s Anthropocene,” with posts and a roundtable …
- Weather Markets: A Business Case for Environmental HistoryOriginally posted on The Otter ~ La loutre, May 17, 2017 When Monsanto spent $1 billion in 2013 to purchase Climate Corporation, its climate data, and its algorithms for using machine learning to predict …
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- An Environmental History of our Food Systems: The last 25 YearsOn a sunny day in November 2016 around one hundred food professionals gathered at an organic farm on South Mountain in Phoenix AZ to discuss the future of food. They gathered to think …
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