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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.
…after three days the sea would rise and take everything
John Malalas (Greek: Ἰωάννης Μαλάλας, Iōánnēs Malálas) was a Byzantine writer who lived around 500 CE. In his Chronicles he records the following...
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...
Scipio looks back on the Ruins of Karthago
The greek historian Polybius, who lived in the era of the Punic wars around 200 BC reports about the Roman military leader Scipio after his troops...
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...
Pool at Leça da Palmeira Beach, Portugal
Portugal; 20. Century; Architecture
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 oldest dessert in the world: Ashura / عَاشُورَاء
Ashura/عَاشُورَاء is a popular Arab and Turkish dessert. It is believed to be the dish that Nuh/نُوْحٌ (Noah) and his family ate on the day the Ark...
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...
The ruin as reunification of culture and nature?
from the movie 2067 (2020) [Es] ist der Reiz der Ruine, dass hier ein Menschenwerk ganz wie ein Naturprodukt empfunden wird. Dieselben Kräfte, die...
The Destruction of “The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum”
John Martin’s oil painting, acquired by Tate Gallery London in 1869, imagines the extent of the disaster that famously beset the sister cities of...
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...