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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.
Sunken City Deep Dive Dubai
"Take the plunge and explore an abandoned and flooded city, an incredible 60 meters underwater. Experience Deep Dive Dubai – a world of exciting and...
Cancho Roano – a city to mourn lost home
Cancho Roano is a Spanish archaeological site located in the Extremadura, about 150 kilometers north-west of Cordoba. The architectural structure...
Sinking Hy-Brasil
This is an image from the famous sinking scene from the movie "Erik the Viking" from 1989. the movie plot is built on the medieval saga of the...
Atlantis: The Lost Continent (1961)
This movie is certainly not of the greatest to have come out of Hollywood. But made in 1961 it is one of the first movies about Atlantis and has...
Tsunami Stones
"Hundreds of tsunami stones stand along the coast of Japan, stark warnings and reminders of the devastating impact of the country’s all too frequent...
‘Extremes will become normal’
Quote by Lam Chiu-ying, former director of the Hong Kong Observatory, the central weather forecast agency of the government of Hong Kong, from an...
Are floating cities a remedy for over-crowded coastal cities, land subsidence and rising sea level?
As this documentary from German TV from 2022 clearly shows, designing floating cities is one thing, wanting to live there is quite another. I guess...
Malé
This is an areal view of the Capital of the Maledives. The City has outgrown the island space it is built on. A new artificial island is currently...
Torres de Ofir
In the north of Portugal, sea lvel rise causes masssive land loss along the Atlantic coast. The building that has become the most emblematic for the...
Interview with Sumet Jumsai
The famous Thai architect and artist Sumet Jumsai speaks about solutions for building houses with and not against nature. Here is an excerpt:Our...
The amphibious communities of Bangkok
Three texts, three authors, three different contexts - all describing the amphibious but perilous life style of the inhabitants of Bangkok, the...
Ho Chi Minh City
This impressive photo of the Vietnamese metropolis in the Mekong Delta was taken by Lizzie Yarina, a researcher from the MIT Urban Crisis Lab and it...
Fear of Drowning – Aquaman and the Fate of Atlantis
Last year author Ram V and artist Christian Ward published a new three piece comic book on the DC-superhero Aquaman. (I have commented on the...
Atlantis in “20.000 Leagues under the Seas”
There is a beautifully written passage on the submerged continent and city Atlantis to be found in Jules Verne's famous novel published in French in...
The gradual flood
The movie "Moonfall" from 2022 might be the worst movie ever done by Roland Emmerich, the movie director a Canadian journal aptly described as a...
A very big shark and an underwater habitat for the rich
The action movie Meg was released in 2018 and did surprisingly well at the box offices, considering that the shark-vs-man plot seems so outdated and...
Leaving Planet Terror
The movie by Robert Rodriguez from 2007 is definitely not a climate narrative. Rather "Planet Terror", a true retro flick, picks up a theme...
The Fall of Numenor
This is the cover of the 2022 edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's stories about the sunken island kingdom Numenor, with an illustration by Alan Lee. In...
Retreat to the Metaverse?
The other night a friend told me about the island state Tuvalu creating a second version of itself online. The story had escaped me and when I heard...
Values for survival: Vanishing homelands Bangladesh and Venice
I first became aware of the presence of climate refugees from Bangladesh in Venice, Italy, through a remark, Amitav Ghosh made in his book "The...
Rich men’s flood myths: Batem and Yann’s comic “Fordlandia”
In a comic book from the Belgian comic series Marsupilami the artists Batem and Yann create a satire on megalomania pipe dreams of the super rich...