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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 Stories of Katrina
Launched in 2005, the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the stories and digital record of...
The X-Code
Photography by Cynthia Scott of the X-code left by rescue searchers as they systematically covered the city of New Orleans after Hurrica Katrina....
Detlev von Liliencron (1844-1909): Trutz Blanke Hans
Ein einziger Schrei - die Stadt ist versunken,Und Hunderttausende sind ertrunken.Wo gestern noch Lärm und lustiger Tisch,Schwamm andern Tags der...
The little Hero of Haarlem
Apparently an anglo-american invention, this story about the boy who rescues a Dutch city by sticking his finger in a hole in the dyke, has been...
The view back
To see your city, you have to get out and look back. In many disaster movies, that's a car ride onto a bridge. In this scene from Geostorm, the look...
Map of sunken and sinking Cities
A map I made of locations of sunken cities or cities that are currently threatened by rising sea levels or land subsidence. Click on image to follow...
Gustave Doré: The New Zealander
Last image from Gustave Doré's Book "London - A Pilgrimage" (1872). Detailed Information. France; 19. Century; Christian; Illustration; City:...
Franz Karl Basler-Kopp (1879–1937): Der Schimmelreiter
German painter Basler-Kopp painted two images in 1924 after Thodor Storm's novel "Rider on the White Horse" one of the best knows examples of German...