Gangetic Floods: Landscape Transformation, Embankments, and Clay Brick-Making
The Gangetic basin, traditionally famous for huge crop production and rice farming, has witnessed gradual alteration in the land-use pattern over the last hundred years.
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The Journey of Sand: How the Yellow River Has Shaped Lankao County
This paper traces the journey of sand carried by China’s Yellow River to Lankao County, one of the locales most affected by sandification.
The 1969 Flood and Coastal Erosion on Cape Pitsunda
Arcadia, 2014, no. 13
Zolotitsa: How Diamond Mining Threatens the Ecological Conditions of a River Region
The St. Petersburg Flood of 1824
Arcadia, 2014, no. 7
The First Cholera Epidemic in St. Petersburg
Arcadia, 2014, no. 6
Dammed Water: Water as a National Commodity
A cultural and historical analysis of the recent past of the Nile Valley shows how interpretations and perceptions of territory, space, and nature are not necessarily indisputably “true” and definitive principles. On the contrary, they are constructed and, therefore, changeable.
Rising Waters: Submersion and Survival in Yung Chang’s Up the Yangtze
Using Yung Chang’s 2007 documentary film Up the Yangtze, Weik von Mossner unravels the power struggles accompanying the construction of the world’s largest hydroelectric power plant—the Three Gorges Dam in China.
Abschalten—Apaga y Vámonos [Switch off]
One of the world’s largest dams, Ralco, on the river Biobío in Chile, opened in 2004 after numerous clashes with the Mapuche people. The land of this ancient indigenous community has been flooded by Endesa, the Spanish multinational company.
Munich and Its Isar River: A Rafting Port on an Alpine River
Arcadia, 2013, no. 18