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.
Munich and the Isar
Munich and the Isar: The City Makes the River?
floods
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.
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.
Sites of Remembering: Landscapes, Lessons, Policies
About this issue
This volume explores the potential contribution memory studies can make to policymaking, in particular on conservation and disaster resilience.
Content
Map: The 1974 flooding of Brisbane
Painting: Rescue during the 1847 Vienna flood
This painting by Leander Russ depicts a rescue operation during a flood in Vienna in 1847.
Lithograph: Lena River, 1856
Lithograph by Leopold Niemirowski from Puteshestvie po vostochnoi Sibiri I. Bulychova (Bulychov’s Travels in Eastern Siberia), 1856.
Enhance ITN
ENHANCE is a four-year innovative training network (ITN) funded by Marie Skłodowska Curie that is dedicated to further establishing the Environmental Humanities as a field of cutting-edge scholarship in Europe and further afield.
"Vacating the Floodplain: Urban Property, Engineering, and Floods in Brisbane (1974-2011)"
Margaret Cook exposes the dominant socio-economic and political values that shaped flood management between 1974 and 2011 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Munich and the Isar
Ecopolis München
Ecopolis München: Environmental Histories of a City is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories and showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.
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