Check out these photos of Dubai; the first is from 1990 and the second photo is the same street in 2003.
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Jennifer Jacquet is a Ph.D. candidate with the Sea Around Us Project at the UBC Fisheries Centre. She works closely with Dr. Daniel Pauly, who coined the term Shifting Baselines, the syndrome on which this blog focuses.
Josh Donlan is a conservation scientist and a Visting Fellow at Cornell University. He often hides out in the backcountry of the Teton Mountains, pondering bygone giant beavers and ground sloths. He also is also the founder and Director of Advanced Conservation Strategies and has a habit of restoring remote islands.
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Shifting Skylines: A Decade in Dubai
Category: Losing Track
Posted on: February 10, 2008 10:38 AM, by Jennifer L. Jacquet
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Comments
Its actually kinda bothering me that the second image actually looks better to me...
Posted by: troy | February 10, 2008 11:02 PM
I hear you. It's not as if it's a swath into a rainforest. It's a desert for pity's sake. But it's amazing how quickly it grew...
Posted by: Jennifer L. Jacquet | February 11, 2008 8:51 AM
It looks like Las Vegas before and after but in only 13 years
Posted by: Eric | February 15, 2008 2:13 PM