model / raphaela staddler
essay title Climate emergency in Rio de Janeiro: How did climate change and mobilities interact to intensify the impacts of the 2011 landslides and floods in Rio de Janeiro State? target audience visual leaners commentary The model is designed to show how multiple stressors combined to cause landslides and floods in the mountainous Serrana Region of Rio de Janeiro state. It shows that human activities interacted with extreme weather to intensify the devastation. I used recycled materials wherever possible. I gathered cardboard, bubble wrap, newspaper and more from my housemates and our recycling bin to create the model. I decided to have both the disaster scene alongside an unaffected, but vulnerable, area to compare interaction of mobilities. |