Browsing by Subject "Floods"
Now showing items 1-3 of 3
-
(2021-07-06)Floods are a burden to both individuals and communities. Since individual, community, and governmental decisions and actions for hazard reduction are interrelated, they depend on regional culture, identity, perceptions, ...
-
On a Flood of Words: Race and Ethnicity in the Language of Disaster in Early Twentieth-Century Texas (2015-07-27)My thesis will show that newspaper reports on weather-related natural disasters in Texas and the Southwest borderlands between 1899 and 1921 reflect the change in racial and ethnic identities during the rise of the Jim ...
-
(2023-05-11)The number and intensity of flood events have been on the rise in many regions of the world. In some parts of the U.S., residential properties, transportation networks, and major infrastructure are at risk of failure caused ...