Network for Cultural Climate Adaptation

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ResourceS for Adaptation to rising sea levels and sinking cities.

This is a blog containing images, stories, songs, rituals and traditions related to flooding and flood protection from the cultural heritage of coasts worldwide. It is continuously expanded and meant as a free repository to be used by anyone working to increase resilience and well-being for front line communitiies.

Please browse through the posts or search for themes, places or centuries using the Categories. Any email comments, hints or repostings are very much appreciated by the author.

The Inundation of the city of Rhodes

Greek historian Diodorus Siculus (1. Century BC) writes:"At this time occurred the third inundation of the city of Rhodes, which destroyed many of...

Hong Kong Bay

... with wall to protect the city from the creatures of the deep in the movie Pacific Rim (2013) and now, or rather, in reality... USA, China; 21....

Jupiter’s Darling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUoGDJep8uo USA; 20. Century; Christian; Movie; City: Rome

The 1953 flood in the North Sea

The events on January 31. 1953 constitutes one of the moste severe floodings in the 20. Century in Europe. More than 1.800 lives were lost in the...

Thames Barrier

The Thames Barrier was installed in the 1980s to protect London from extreme floods from the North Sea. It's design make it probabyl to most stylish...

Horizontal versus Vertical View

In this scene from the movie "Aquaman" (2018) Atlantis sinks into the ocean. Unlike in all other disaster movies I know, the scene is pictured from...

Old Maps of Future Floodings

There are many projects for the visualisation of the effects of rising sea levels. The US-American company Climate Central presents dozens of...

Who inherits the sunken cities?

وَكَمْ أَهْلَكْنَا مِن قَرْيَةٍۭ بَطِرَتْ مَعِيشَتَهَا ۖ فَتِلْكَ مَسَـٰكِنُهُمْ لَمْ تُسْكَن مِّنۢ بَعْدِهِمْ إِلَّا قَلِيلًۭا ۖ وَكُنَّا...

The City as Jungle

In the US-American 2014 movie Godzilla, the cityscape - in this case the coastal city San Francisco - experiences an interesting reversal of the...

Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin

Soldiers Grove is a village situated along the Kickapoo River in Crawford County, Wisconsin, in the United States. The population was 592 at the...

Kiribati

The small nation state Kiribati has become well known, because it is projected to be one of the first nations who's citizens are forced into...

You’re next!

A sign in front of a home in the town Matatā in New Zealand, that been forced into “managed retreat”, the process where communities, buildings and...

Eko Atlantic City

Eko Atlantic, officially Nigeria International Commerce city, also known as Eko Atlantic City, or the initials E.A.C. and E.A., is a planned city of...

Global Meltdown (2017)

All images from the movie Global Meltdown from 2017 Canada; 21. Century; Christian; film

The Great Sea Wall

Sea Wall in North-Jakarta, Indonesia Sea Wall in Gedong Pompa, Jakarta, Indonesia Sea Wall in Kesennuma, Japan Flood Wall in New Orleans, USA Sea...