Mississippi Watershed Past, Present, and Futures
“When prices are high, we want to farm the heck out of our lands and we do less conservation. It should be the opposite. When prices are high—because the pressure on the environment is high too—we should do more conservation.”
A conversation with Professor Silvia Secchi (University of Iowa) about the Mississippi River watershed, its sociohydrology, and visioning alternative futures. Released October 9, 2026.
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Silvia Secchi
Silvia Secchi is a Full Professor in the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of Iowa. Professor Secchi identifies as an economist, a geographer and a transdisciplinary scholar. Professor Secchi studies the nexus between humans and the environment, the tools and methodologies we use to understand it, the policies we adopt to change it, and the pedagogy of teaching it. Most of her work focuses on the Mississippi River Basin–land-based energy production, water quality, adaptation to climate change, floodplain management, invasive species and farmers’ attitudes in the watershed.
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