How long do floods throughout the millennium remain in the collective memory?
| Autor: | Václav Fanta, Miroslav Šálek, Petr Sklenicka |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
Empirical data History Historical memory Science General Physics and Astronomy 02 engineering and technology History 18th Century Collective memory History 21st Century General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Article Disasters History 17th Century 03 medical and health sciences Memory Human settlement SAFER Humans lcsh:Science Folklore History 15th Century Multidisciplinary Flood myth Historical Article History 19th Century General Chemistry Emigration and Immigration History 20th Century 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Floods History Medieval 030104 developmental biology Economy History 16th Century lcsh:Q 0210 nano-technology |
| Zdroj: | Nature Communications Nature Communications, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
| Popis: | Is there some kind of historical memory and folk wisdom that ensures that a community remembers about very extreme phenomena, such as catastrophic floods, and learns to establish new settlements in safer locations? We tested a unique set of empirical data on 1293 settlements founded in the course of nine centuries, during which time seven extreme floods occurred. For a period of one generation after each flood, new settlements appeared in safer places. However, respect for floods waned in the second generation and new settlements were established closer to the river. We conclude that flood memory depends on living witnesses, and fades away already within two generations. Historical memory is not sufficient to protect human settlements from the consequences of rare catastrophic floods. Concept of learning from history assumes that information is handed between generations to avoid negative effect of hazards. Here the authors analysed human behaviour and decision making on post-flood settlements and showed flood memory faded away in two generations, which is insufficient to protect human settlements from rare catastrophic floods. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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