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.
From channelizations to renaturations—the catastrophic flood of the Gürbe River in July 1990 prompted profound changes in approaches to flood protection.
Flood memory in Townsville is strong, but this does not align with the city’s capacity to live sustainably with floods.