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Cryptids and Disasters: Serpents and a Werewolf in the Western Indian Ocean Region
In Tanzania and Mauritius, physical disasters are filtered through cultural lenses, including sightings of cryptids: serpents and a werewolf.
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Multimedia | book excerpt
Cities in a Sunburnt Country: Water and the Making of Urban Australia
As Australian cities face uncertain water futures, what insights can the history of Aboriginal and settler relationships with water yield?
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River Rights at Rockhampton (a Rhetoric)
Rivers need property rights so that humans can live with floods.
Multimedia | podcast
Interview with William Carruthers, author of Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, William Carruthers is interviewed on his recent book, Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology.
Multimedia | journal article
“Weathered History: Galveston and Extreme Events”
In this Springs article, natural-resource and environmental-policy professor Thomas Princen explores three extreme weather events in the Houston-Galveston area, Texas.
Multimedia | journal article
“Rain, Carson, Art, Salt: A Venetian Matrix”
Novelist Catherine Bush walks the streets of Venice, seeking art that engages with Rachel Carson at the Biennale Arte 2024.
Perspectives Article
A Letter to My Father
Chioma’s candid letter to her father reflects on the challenges of climate change, celebrating her village’s resilience in facing adversity.
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NoMOSE: Contested Flood Barriers in Venice, Italy
In the early 2000s, a coalition of citizen-activists in Venice denounced the state’s massive flood-barrier project, raising public participation in the fate of the lagoon.
Exhibition chapter
Melbourne: DIY Infrastructure | Drought, Mud, Filth, and Flood
In this chapter of the virtual exhibition “Drought, Mud, Filth, and Flood: Water Crises in Australian Cities, 1880s–2010s,” the authors describe the ways in which infrastructure failed to keep pace with population growth in Melbourne, Victoria, and how residents developed their own means to overcome deficiencies. Residents of the postwar suburban frontier installed septic tanks and pan toilets, joined together to lay stormwater drains to improve the health and amenity of their local streets.