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Use picture archive to communicate on vulnerability and adaptation

Permanent awareness beyond single weather events is one big aim of Emschergenossenschaft. A picture-exhibition on former extreme weather events demonstrated the vulnerability and the possible impacts of climate change in the Emscher-Lipperegion vividly.

The water boards Emschergenossenschaft and Lippeverband own a broad archive of photographs from 1899-2014 that shows the river catchments of Emscher and Lippe. About 200.000 pictures are included, of which 40.000 are historic photographs on glass plates. A selection of these pictures was exposed for the first time: The exhibition “RIVER ARCHIVE – revision and perspective” in the museum for art and cultural history in Dortmund (MKK) from 22 March until 1 June 2014.

The archive shows pictures from floodings that happened in the past. But also heat and drought as well as damages from extreme weather events have been caught in these pictures. Following the first module of the “Future Cities - Adaptation Compass” this archive can be used to “check vulnerability”: The information about former extreme weather events deliver valuable information about the vulnerability of the river catchments. The full archive of Emschergenossenschaft and Lippeverband has been categorised after the 6 climate change effects that are used in the adaptation compass: heat, drought, cold, extreme rainfall events, storm and flooding.

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