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Lahar Meets Locomotive: New Zealand’s Tangiwai Railway Disaster of Christmas Eve 1953
The Tangiwai disaster of 1953, New Zealand’s worst railway accident, is an environmental disaster with an enduring legacy.
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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.
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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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Remembering and Igniting Fires: Prescribed Burns as Memory Work
Sutherland explores the practice of controlled burning in Canadian national parks.
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Memory as Claim-making in Kalahari Socio-environments
LaRocco examines how the San people of Botswana use memory as a form of claim-making to contest their marginal position.
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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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To Whom Does the Story Belong? Earthquake Memories, Narratives, and Policy in Italy
Parrinello examines historical responses to Italian earthquakes.
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Learning from Loss? The Politics of Memory and Morality in the Post-disaster
Baez Ullberg presents examples of disaster recovery scenarios from Argentina and Sweden.
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Memory and Earthquake Forgetfulness in India
Simpson explores how both memory and forgetting are central to what happens after disasters.
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Recommendations for Policymakers
Lakhani and de Smalen offer key messages for policymakers.