Hurricane Sandy
“Frankenstorm” Hurricane Sandy falls over New York City, becoming the United States’ second costliest hurricane.
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Two Years at Sea
Two Years at Sea tells the story about a middle-aged man who lives a solitary life in a house near the mountains and close to the ocean.
“The Monster Swallows You”: Disaster Memory and Risk Culture in Western Europe, 1500–2000
About this issue
In this issue of RCC Perspectives, Christian Pfister examines disaster memory and risk culture. In contrast to the memory of war, the memory of natural disaster is markedly short-lived in a globalized world, yet such memory should be preserved in order to minimize the impact of similar disasters in the future.
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The Eighteenth-Century Climate of Jamaica Derived from the Journals of Thomas Thistlewood, 1750-1786
Examines the weather records of Thomas Thistlewood, a large property and slave-owner in eighteenth-century Jamaica.
Lowcountry Hurricanes: Three Centuries of Storms at Sea and Ashore
This illustrated history recounts how, for the past three hundred years, hurricanes have altered lives and landscapes along the Georgia-South Carolina seaboard.
Episode 5: "The Storm History of Stanley Park"
Wolf Read, a 2009 graduate student in the Department of Forest Sciences at UBC, talks about his research on the complicated nature of windstorms in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland.
Die große Transformation [The Great Transformation]
This graphic book uses cartoon illustrations to present scientific facts alongside a broad range of actions that we can take against climate change.
Sherry Johnson on “The Culture of Catastrophe”
Sherry Johnson, Carson Fellow from January 2010 until July 2010, talks about her research on the history of disasters and climatology and the related environmental, social, and political changes.
Roundtable Review of Fixing the Sky by James R. Fleming
If climate change mitigation through political agreement has no hope of succeeding, does it make sense to tinker with the climate?
Lawrence Culver on “Manifest Disaster”
Lawrence Culver, Carson Center fellow from June to December 2010, speaks about his research project “Manifest Disaster: Climate and the Making of America.”