Perspectives Article
Recommendations for Policymakers
Lakhani and de Smalen offer key messages for policymakers.
Lakhani and de Smalen offer key messages for policymakers.
This volume explores the potential contribution memory studies can make to policymaking, in particular on conservation and disaster resilience.
In this issue of RCC Perspectives, Christian Pfister examines disaster memory and risk culture. In contrast to the memory of war, the memory of natural disaster is markedly short-lived in a globalized world, yet such memory should be preserved in order to minimize the impact of similar disasters in the future.
Using Yung Chang’s 2007 documentary film Up the Yangtze, Weik von Mossner unravels the power struggles accompanying the construction of the world’s largest hydroelectric power plant—the Three Gorges Dam in China.