Arcadia
Creating Safety, Courting Disaster on the Lower Shinano River, Japan
Engineering the Lower Shinano River in northeastern Japan expanded the risk of other flood and tsunami damage.
Engineering the Lower Shinano River in northeastern Japan expanded the risk of other flood and tsunami damage.
Historical documents provide detailed descriptions of ice-jam flood events and climate impacts in riverine communities.
Rivers need property rights so that humans can live with floods.
Is the Arctic the last frontier? With text, audio, and video, historian Elena Baldassarri describes the historical struggle to find a passage through the perilous environments of the Far North. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “The Northwest Passage: Myth, Environment, and Resources.”