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Using Historical Storms for Flood Risk Management: The 1872 Storm in South Sweden
Fredriksson et al. discuss the relationship between flood risk management and collective memory.
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The Perils of Water: Floods, Droughts, and Pollution as Natural Hazards and Cultural Challenges
The paper addresses various ways that water is constructed as “dangerous,” whether because there is too much (floods), too little (droughts), or because it is polluted. Mauch emphasizes that although water catastrophes have a natural origin, their effects are primarily social.
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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.
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Of Storms, Floods, and Flying Sharks: The Extreme Weather Hero in Contemporary American Culture
Susanne Leikam explores the extreme weather hero and performed masculinity in contemporary American pop culture through an analysis of the 2013 film Sharknado.
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Gangetic Floods: Landscape Transformation, Embankments, and Clay Brick-Making
The Gangetic basin, traditionally famous for huge crop production and rice farming, has witnessed gradual alteration in the land-use pattern over the last hundred years.
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On Water: Perceptions, Politics, Perils
On Water showcases the range of disciplines and methodological approaches that are brought together at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. In this volume, nine scholars affiliated with the RCC present their research in the fields of history, philosophy, literary studies, geography, and cultural studies.
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Sites of Remembering: Landscapes, Lessons, Policies
This volume explores the potential contribution memory studies can make to policymaking, in particular on conservation and disaster resilience.
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Men and Nature: Hegemonic Masculinities and Environmental Change
The essays in this collection explore how masculine roles, identities, and practices shape human relationships with the more-than-human world.
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Asian Environments: Connections across Borders, Landscapes, and Times
This issue of RCC Perspectives offers insights into similarities and differences in the ways people in Asia have tried to master and control the often unpredictable and volatile environments of which they were part
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Making Sense of Water: A Personal Quest into the History of Irrigation
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg discusses the ways water management policies shaped the landscape of his childhood during the years of the Fascist regime in Italy.