Climate and Society: Drowning Cities

From antiquity to the present, human societies have had a rich and uneasy relationship to water, with many of the world’s great cities rising on the shores of rivers, lakes, seas, and oceans. Their histories have been shaped by the opportunities and hazards of these nearby waters. Today, many population centers now also lie in the cross-hairs of climate change, which accelerates sea-level rise and alters the frequency and magnitude of flooding and severe storms.

This interdisciplinary class, part of Vanderbilt’s Exploratory Core, will explore legendary floods and the physical and cultural phenomena of the worldb

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