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Fire, Floods, War: The Nature of Urban Disasters

ASEH Panel

11.03.2010 08:30  – 10:00 

Location: Portland, Oregon

Conveners:

Chair: Ranjan Chakrabarti (Jadavpur University)
Comments: Christof Mauch (RCC)

The Rachel Carson Center co-sponsors a panel at the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) Portland Conference 2010: Fire, Floods, War: The Nature of Urban Disasters

  • Greg Bankoff (University of Hull: Tale of Two Cities) - The Pyro-morphology of 19th Century Manila
  • Uwe Lübken (RCC) - Rivers and Risk: The Urban Floodplain as Contested Space
  • Dorothee Brantz (Technische Universität Berlin) - Air War: Environmental Destruction of European Cities in World War II