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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.
Fastest eroding beaches of the world
This is a list of the beaches with the largest annual land erosion. Four of the top seven spots are in the USA alone, another one in Peru and two in...
The Ocean people fight back
My favorite idea from the DC Aquaman movie (2018) is merely a small detail. When the Aquarians start to fight back against us, the people above sea...
Alexander’s submarine dive
The Alexander Romance is an account of the life and exploits of Alexander the Great. Although constructed around a historical core,...
Pekalongan, Indonesia
In the 46 sqkm city of Pekalongan, there are dozens of neighbourhoods under threat of becoming one with the sea, with saltwater encroaching inland...
letting the souls float home
Tōrō nagashi ( 灯籠流し or 灯篭流し) is a Japanese ritual usually performed as part of the Festival of the Dead - O-bon (お盆) or Bon - in...
Marine life in the city streets
As extrem weather events in coastal areas intensify and multiply, marine life comes closer to the city. Among the social media posts during...
Windows and Water – Naples (Florida) and Bremen
I found this image on facebook. It's from the twitter account of @bothcoasts and was posted on October 1st 2022. It was taken in Naples, Florida,...
Ghosts of the tsunami
In his beautifully written account of the 2011 tsunami in Tohoku, northern Japan, and it's aftermath, Richard L. Parry also describes the role of...
Artificial Intelligence and false hopes: Asunder
"Asunder is an art project that responds to a growing interest in the application of AI to critical environmental challenges. [...] It's a fictional...
Modified marine ecosystems
https://youtu.be/ohE6ZFPr2W8 Climate adaptation for coastal cities will require altered relationships to the sea and the marine ecosystem. future...
Venice flooding from a duck’s perspective
In the Donald Duck story "Zio Paperone e la deriva dei monumenti" by Italian comic artists Giorgio Pezzin and Giorgio Cavazzano, Uncle Scrooge...
Tourism and Sunken Cities
In the greek town Epidavros on the Pelopones a sunken villa is marketed as a toursit attraction of some sorts. Somewehere, down there... thanks to...
Thunderbird and Whale
"Throughout Cascadia (southern Canadian and northern US-American west coast), earth shaking and/or tsunamilike effects are frequently described in...
Sunken Lanka
From an article by Patrick Harrigan in the Colombo Sunday Times in 1989: "One example of a recurrent storytelling motif that appears and re-appears...
The serpent disliked the weight upon his head
"At the beginning of time, the surface of the Earth was primeval ocean where this great serpent swam or lay. The daughter of the highest deity (who...
Frazer: The flood myth
It might be time for a clarification. Since flood myths play quite a big role in cristian creationist ideology and since there is a lot of material...
Flood stories from around the world
In this really impressive online source, a guy called Mark Isaak has collected hundreds of flood myths from literally all over the world. Quite a...
The louse and the flea
A fairy tale as collected by the Brothers Grimm: A little louse and a little flea kept house together. They were brewing beer in an eggshell when...
The Great Flood of Gun-Yu
The Great Flood of Gun-Yu (Chinese: 鯀禹治水), also known as the Gun-Yu myth, was a major flood event in ancient...
“Orașele înecate” by Felix Aderca
In this 1936 classic Sci-Fi novel (english title: The Drowned Cities), Romanian author Felix Aderca describes a future, when global cooling has...
The new Alexandria skyline
In an effort to protect the city of Alexandria against coastal erosion, the local government plants thousands of concrete tetrapods along the...