Broadsheet: “The Great Waters,” January 1682
An account of the destruction in Nuremberg by major flooding along the Pegnitz River.
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Commodified Land, Dangerous Water: Colonial Perceptions of Riverine Bengal
Bengal’s essential character as a fluid landscape was changed during the colonial times through legal interventions that were aimed at creating permanent boundaries between land and water, with land given priority.
Asian Environments: Connections across Borders, Landscapes, and Times
About this issue
This issue of RCC Perspectives offers insights into similarities and differences in the ways people in Asia have tried to master and control the often unpredictable and volatile environments of which they were part
Content
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.
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.