Multimedia | book profile
Roundtable Review of Fixing the Sky by James R. Fleming
If climate change mitigation through political agreement has no hope of succeeding, does it make sense to tinker with the climate?
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The Eighteenth-Century Climate of Jamaica Derived from the Journals of Thomas Thistlewood, 1750-1786
Examines the weather records of Thomas Thistlewood, a large property and slave-owner in eighteenth-century Jamaica.
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Lowcountry Hurricanes: Three Centuries of Storms at Sea and Ashore
This illustrated history recounts how, for the past three hundred years, hurricanes have altered lives and landscapes along the Georgia-South Carolina seaboard.
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Sherry Johnson on “The Culture of Catastrophe”
Sherry Johnson, Carson Fellow from January 2010 until July 2010, talks about her research on the history of disasters and climatology and the related environmental, social, and political changes.
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Die große Transformation [The Great Transformation]
This graphic book uses cartoon illustrations to present scientific facts alongside a broad range of actions that we can take against climate change.
Multimedia | podcast
Episode 5: "The Storm History of Stanley Park"
Wolf Read, a 2009 graduate student in the Department of Forest Sciences at UBC, talks about his research on the complicated nature of windstorms in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland.
Perspectives
“The Monster Swallows You”: Disaster Memory and Risk Culture in Western Europe, 1500–2000
In this issue of RCC Perspectives, Christian Pfister examines disaster memory and risk culture. In contrast to the memory of war, the memory of natural disaster is markedly short-lived in a globalized world, yet such memory should be preserved in order to minimize the impact of similar disasters in the future.
Multimedia | film profile
Two Years at Sea
Two Years at Sea tells the story about a middle-aged man who lives a solitary life in a house near the mountains and close to the ocean.
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Wätterschmöcker [Weather Gazers]
This film follows the daily lives of seven “weather prophets” in the Swiss Muota Valley, who predict weather six months in advance based on evidence from animals and plants.
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The 11th Hour
The 11th Hour stresses the urgency of the issues plaguing our planet, and the current generation’s pivotal role in tackling them. It features several leaders and experts and is narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.