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Workers hand-sort waste paper into different types (newsprint, glossy, office) at a government-run recycling center in 2010 (Beijing, China). Photo by Tom Drennen.

About AES

The Asian Environmental Studies (AES) Initiative at Hobart and William Smith Colleges was generously supported by the Henry Luce Foundation from 2011 to 2015. The initiative builds on existing institutional strengths at HWS in Environmental Studies and Asian Studies, and seeks to infuse East Asia in a meaningful and substantive manner into teaching and research on human-environment relations at HWS. The initiative also seeks to catalyze AES work across the liberal arts community through curriculum workshops, collaborative research and teaching, symposia, study abroad, and other programs.

China

Construction at the site of the Xiaowan Hydroelectric Dam on the Lancang (Upper Mekong) River in spring 2005 (Yunnan Province, China). Photo by Darrin Magee.

ASIAN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES RESOURCES

You can find resources here for country research, data visualization, and curriculum development in the field of Asian environmental Studies. These resources are compiled by the AES staff at HWS.

MAPPING RESOURCES

DATA FOR MAPPING
Gathering data for your map – some new considerations for gathering data for spatial analysis: Flickr: Online Journalism Blog/

This allows the user to create a scraper tool or request to have a tool made. The tool will then run and supply the output to you. Some scrapers are publicly available to use. Scraper Wiki

Limited to 500 record download for the free version. (Firefox Plugin) Recommended. Outwit Hub

Free 30 day trial version available: PDF2XL

DATA JOURNALISM
Journalism in the Age of Data: Journalism in the Age of Data

Entrepreneurial Journalism: Journalism 2.0

MAPPING TOOLS
(Very short) list of mapping software: GIS Lounge Blog

Visual overlay simple proximity analysis (used successfully)
**Major limitation of this site: meta-data development is left to the user – a possible major pitfall of Volunteered Geographic Information: GeoCommons

Visual display, hotspot analysis; share data as a WMS: GIS Cloud

An extensive list of freeware Spatial Tools: Free Geography Tools Blog

Online ESRI Tool: Upload and share datasets from ArcGIS 10 directly or on the web only (includes basic spatial analysis tools): ArcGIS online.com

Online ESRI Tool: Create a map-based geography presentation inside this tool seamlessly – this site includes many datasets already mapped including some World Bank data (includes basic spatial analysis tools) Explorer Online.com

Other related software R – stats (freeware)

GIS Lounge: Making maps with R Making maps with R

GIS DATA RESOURCES
Natural Earth Data (Penn State): Natural Earth Data

DIVA GIS program @ UC Santa Barbara: Global Administrative Areas

China

Plastic bottles and other items bundled for recycling at a government-run recycling center in 2010 (Beijing, China). Photo by Tom Drennen.

COUNTRY RESOURCES

China
Indonesia
Japan
Korea
Malaysia
Thailand
Taiwan
Vietnam

VISUALIZATION RESOURCES

WEB 2.0 VISUALIZATION TOOLS
Datasets that can be used to create custom time-based animations; and datasets for download: Visualizing.org

visualize uploaded and created google docs with animated graphs and/or maps: Google Public Data

Downloadable free player of small programs that can be used to visualize math-based and other concepts: Wolfram Demonstration Project

WEB 2.0 MASHUPS THAT USE MAPS

Interactive/multimedia timeline with posting of historical images to map interface (one that looks worthy of further exploration): Historypin.com

CONCEPT MAPPING
Cmap, Popplet

OTHER PRESENTATION TOOLS
Web 2.0 digital storytelling: Voicethread

Online presentation generator (used by conference presenters): Prezi

Datasets that can be used to create custom time-based animations; and datasets for download: Gapminder