The Amphibious culture - historical floods in the Netherlands

Floods are world wide increasing while adaptation to floods is decreasing. In this video Petra van Dam uses the Netherlands as a case study to demonstrate how that culture was until quite recently “amphibious” and adapted to flooding. She will also highlight the fact that present day modern society is not so well adapted to flooding and why.
Petra van Dam is Professor in water management history at the Free University Amsterdam.
This Video was recorded during the first workshop of the Environmental Histories Network at Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire. The Network was a multi-disciplinary partnership that ran from 2010 until 2012 and was funded under the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Environmental Change Networks scheme.