Arcadia
The Australia Day Floods, January 1974
Brisbane’s 1974 floods substantially damaged Brisbane, accelerating the government’s plans for a second flood mitigation dam.
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"Re-framing Flood Control in England and Wales"
In their article, William R. Sheate and J. Ivan Scrase argue that for a risk-oriented framing to succeed, new assumptions about causation and a new ethical outlook are now needed.
Multimedia | film profile
Water Wars: When Drought, Flood and Greed Collide
This film examines attempts by communities and experts around the world to protect their water resources in the face of global warming, pollution, and political conflict.
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.
Multimedia | Env. blogs & websites
Climates of Migration
This project looks at the historical intersections between environmental change and migration, and is particularly interested in climate-induced movements of people in the past.
Perspectives
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.
Perspectives
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
Perspectives Article
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.
Arcadia
Other-than-Human Survivance Against the Trent-Severn Waterway
Emerging from an Indigenous Nishnaabeg ontology, “survivance” calls for an understanding of other-than-human persons as agentially surviving and resisting colonial violence.