Can Public Policy Perpetuate the Memory of Disasters?
Colten and Grismore examine the Amite River flood in August 2016 against the backdrop of collective flood memory and public policy.
Colten and Grismore examine the Amite River flood in August 2016 against the backdrop of collective flood memory and public policy.
Baez Ullberg presents examples of disaster recovery scenarios from Argentina and Sweden.
Lakhani and de Smalen offer key messages for policymakers.
This presentation by Manfred Stähli and Marcel Hürlimann for the 2016 CCES Competence Center Environment and Sustainability conference entitled “Natural Hazards and Risks in Alpine Environments - From Science to Early Warning Systems” highlights the challenges and goals of weather forecasting related to climate-related disasters and emergency responses.
When a tornado strikes Worcester, Massachusetts, residents suspect the disaster is the work of an unlikely culprit—the atomic bomb.
Rivers need property rights so that humans can live with floods.
This is a part of the virtual exhibition “Famines in Late Nineteenth-Century India: Politics, Culture, and Environmental Justice”—written and curated by sociologist Naresh Chandra Sourabh and economic historian Timo Myllyntaus.