Along the Way

Robert Lawrence France is an associate professor of watershed management in the department of environmental sciences in the faculty of agriculture at Dalhousie University and a science advisor to the Center of Technology and the Environment at Harvard University. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including The Handbook of Landscape Regenerative Development and Design; The Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design; Ultreia! Onward! Progress of the Pilgrim; Veniceland Atlantis: The Bleak Future of the World's Favorite City; and Wetlands of Mass Destruction: Ancient Presage for Contemporary Ecocide in Southern Iraq. He lives in Truro, Nova Scotia.