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.
This volume explores the potential contribution memory studies can make to policymaking, in particular on conservation and disaster resilience.
Fredriksson et al. discuss the relationship between flood risk management and collective memory.
Colten and Grismore examine the Amite River flood in August 2016 against the backdrop of collective flood memory and public policy.
Baez Ullberg presents examples of disaster recovery scenarios from Argentina and Sweden.
In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Drought, Mud, Filth, and Flood: Water Crises in Australian Cities, 1880s–2010s,” the authors describe how the city of Adelaide has responded to periodic water shortages. Water security was sought first in reservoirs, then the Murray River, and more recently desalination. While earlier periods of shortage led to the development of the dual-flush toilet, the need for water conservation was only really cemented in the urban consciousness with the Millennium drought of 1996–2010.
In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Drought, Mud, Filth, and Flood: Water Crises in Australian Cities, 1880s–2010s,” the authors show the extent to which the people of Perth, Western Australia, have relied on the groundwater of the Swan Coastal Plain, and the implications of this reliance in a drying climate. In the context of private and public extraction of groundwater, the government in 2014 commenced a groundwater replenishment scheme to “recharge” the local aquifers with treated wastewater.
In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Drought, Mud, Filth, and Flood: Water Crises in Australian Cities, 1880s–2010s,” the authors describe how the city of Sydney, New South Wales, has pursued the dual goals of plentiful water and cheap sanitation through the construction of the massive Warragamba Dam and ocean outfall sewers. Sewage polluting Sydney’s iconic beaches saw large protests in the 1980s and 1990s and closer monitoring of the ocean outfalls. Householders successfully curtailed their water consumption during the Millennium Drought, but as soon as dam levels rose again, water restrictions were abandoned because water retailers gain financially from higher consumption.
From channelizations to renaturations—the catastrophic flood of the Gürbe River in July 1990 prompted profound changes in approaches to flood protection.
A flooding in the Saint Petersburg metro divided the city into two parts for nearly a decade.
José Paronella’s dream continues at Paronella Park despite catastrophic flood and cyclonic events.