Histories: Singapore’s Climate in the Past, Present and Future

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Histories: Singapore’s Climate in the Past, Present and Future

National Library Board, Singapore 1 Canning Rise, Singapore

Register here About this event Singapore’s climate is changing. We can expect it to continue evolving in the future with anthropogenic climate change and a changing urban landscape. With more frequent and intense extreme temperature and rainfall events as well as sea-level rise projected in the future, we can expect the environment we live in... View Article

The 2021 Howitt Lecture: Coastal Resilience: How Landforms Cope with Changing Waves and Rising Seas

The Royal Society of Victoria 8 Latrobe Street, Melbourne

Our coast is a dynamic system. As the protective boundary between the land and sea it absorbs the constant energy it receives from waves and tides and in doing so creates the landforms on which people recreate and build. The forms we see on the coast today are the result of each interaction waves have... View Article

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President’s Conversation, Bearing Witness? – humanities teaching in a time of environmental catastrophe

Webinar: Australian Academy of the Humanities 3 Liversidge Street, Acton

Professor Nigel Clark, co-editor of ‘Environmental Humanities Approaches to Climate Change’, recently commented that ‘bearing witness to the demise or death of what we love is now … an unavoidable part of teaching’*. Scholars increasingly document the emotional labour involved in work on climate change, but there has been limited attention to what this means... View Article