Remembering the Night of Noah: Flood Memory and Townsville's Floods of 1998 and 2019
Flood memory in Townsville is strong, but this does not align with the city’s capacity to live sustainably with floods.
Flood memory in Townsville is strong, but this does not align with the city’s capacity to live sustainably with floods.
The 2019 flooding of Townsville in northern Australia proved that Queensland’s dry tropical environment is a temperamental master.
Could the Crooked Creek Flood of 1846 be the reason we cannot find George DeBaptiste’s house?
This article looks at the terminology around the 2015 flooding in Chennai city in India.
The history of the Danube regulation in the Austrian Machland during the nineteenth century shows the enormous efforts made to transform a dynamic river landscape into a navigable waterway and a stable floodplain that supports the various human demands.
A farmer on the !Garib/Orange river in Namibia uses historical flood markers to challenge eviction in the post-apartheid landscape.
Nijmegen’s “Room for the Waal” project is a leading example for the application of the “making room for the river” water management approach.
In Tanzania and Mauritius, physical disasters are filtered through cultural lenses, including sightings of cryptids: serpents and a werewolf.
Rivers need property rights so that humans can live with floods.