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Painting: Rescue during the 1847 Vienna flood
This painting by Leander Russ depicts a rescue operation during a flood in Vienna in 1847.
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Map: The 1974 flooding of Brisbane
A map of the 1974 flood in Brisbane, Australia.
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"Vacating the Floodplain: Urban Property, Engineering, and Floods in Brisbane (1974-2011)"
Margaret Cook exposes the dominant socio-economic and political values that shaped flood management between 1974 and 2011 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Painting: “The St. Petersburg Flood of 1824”
Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev’s painting of Karuselnaya square (now Teatralnaya square) during the 1824 flood.
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"The Politics of Nature: Constructing German Reunification During the Great Oder Flood of 1997"
The main hypothesis is that the metaphorical discourse about the disaster and nature in general serves as a metaphorical reservoir for illustrating and legitimising the abstract political process of the German Reunification.
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“Flood Mitigation, Climate Change Adaptation and Technological Lock-In in Assam”
This article looks at climate change adaption and flood mitigation.
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Broadsheet: “The Great and Terrible Flood,” January 1651
Potrayal of the devastation caused by a massive flood along stretches of the Danube, Neckar, Main, and Rhein in January 1651.
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"Human Factors, Extreme Events and Floods in the Lower Po Plain (Northern Italy) in the 16th Century"
Research on climatic variations in the sixteenth century has stressed the exceptionality of extreme events, but the case of the lower Po basin, where lack of instrumental data renders the concept of exceptionality complex and relative, shows that this is not necessarily valid.
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"Divine Punishment or Object of Research? The Resonance of Earthquakes, Floods, Epidemics and Famine in the Correspondence Network of Albrecht von Haller"
The present investigation examines the resonance of such catastrophes in the correspondence network of the universal scholar Albrecht von Haller (1708–77).
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"Noah's Flood: The Genesis Story and Natural Disasters in Early Modern Times"
Different interpretations of the biblical deluge give us an idea of various modes of perceptions of natural disasters in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In analysing these interpretations we learn much about early modern European ways of thinking about nature, mankind and the relationship between both.