Welcome to Selsey, a community that welcomed back the marsh.
By Erica Gies, Hakai Magazine
In letting go, in providing space for coastal ecosystems, we acknowledge the power of waterlands—to hold water, to hold carbon, to hold life, including us.
Tag: flooding mitigation
Op-ed: Flood survivors find common ground in a divided nation
By Laurie Mazur, Environmental Health News
Today, Americans have sorted ourselves into communities defined by geography, demography, ideology— and opportunities to communicate across those divides are exceedingly rare. But the shared trauma of flooding offers an opening.
The Transformative Power of Water: Flood Survivor/Activist Katherine Egland Fights the Struggle for Human Dignity
By Kerri McLean, Resilience.org
Around the world, across cultures and time, water has manifested itself as both life-creating and life-destroying. Never static, it constantly changes and transforms those in its wake. This is profoundly true for Katherine Egland.
Rising Tides: Diving Into Mumbai’s Flooding Challenges
By Isha Kulkarni, Degrees of Change
Sharing learnings between vulnerable cities can ensure the implementation of best practices from around the world. Taking the knowledge from Mumbai’s fight against flooding into other sectors also presents a significant opportunity.
If We Want to Cut Flooding We Should Stop Burning the Moorland
By George Monbiot, The Guardian blog
Since 2014, when I first wrote about how government policies exacerbate flooding, there has been a growing realisation, in and out of government, that impeding the flow of water off the land, desynchronising flood peaks in the tributaries and slowing a river’s pace can reduce flooding downstream – saving lives, homes and infrastructure.
While South Carolina Floods, U.S. Wrestles With Urban Stormwater
By Codi Kozacek, Circle of Blue
Among the devastating effects of the low pressure storm system that pummeled South Carolina over the weekend was the heavy damage the record-breaking rains caused to water transport and treatment infrastructure, and the release of a tide of contaminated stormwater.
Cities are Finally Treating Water as a Resource, not a Nuisance
By Erica Gies, Ensia
Memorial Day barbecues and parades were thwarted this year in Houston when a massive storm dumped more than 10 inches of rain in two days, creating a Waterworld of flooded freeways, cars, houses and businesses, leaving several people dead and hundreds in need of rescue.
Guy Watson on how Riverford Farm is living with climate change
By Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture
Perhaps those for whom the notion of ‘living with climate change’ is most acutely felt are farmers.