Journal article
“It will never happen again”: The myth of flood immunity in Brisbane
Journal of Australian Studies, Vol.42(3), pp.328-342
2018
Abstract
Although scholarship shows how collective memory aids community resilience to hazards, sociopolitical forces erode this transformative potential. A study of Brisbane River floods highlights the entanglement of memory with a myth of flood immunity, created by community faith in dams to prevent flooding, infrequent floods, drought and hydrological misunderstandings, and upheld by floodplain development perceived as an economic booster. When flooding threatened the myth of immunity in 2011, the event was framed as dam mismanagement to deflect attention from poor land use practices and government culpability. This myth endures, leaving South East Queensland no more resilient for unpredictable but certain future flooding.
Details
- Title
- “It will never happen again”: The myth of flood immunity in Brisbane
- Authors
- Margaret Helen Cook (Author) - University of Queensland
- Publication details
- Journal of Australian Studies, Vol.42(3), pp.328-342
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2018
- DOI
- 10.1080/14443058.2018.1487871
- ISSN
- 1444-3058
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450956602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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