Under- standing the RIVER ARCHIVE – a guide to the exhibition

FACING THE CHANGE –

an archive as compass to the future

1 Archiv Archiv Glancing in the past…

…helps today shaping tomorrow!

2 EMSCHERGENOSSENSCHAFT Archiv A compass to face climate change – the RIVER ARCHIVE as planning tool

Our aim is a climate-proof region. For To answer these questions analysing that you need some directions: a com- archives is the first step of the module pass. The european project Future Cities „Check Vulnerability“. has developed an „adaptation compass“ that provides help in modules. Check Vulnerability The first module checks the vulnerability Determine the Need Understand of the region: for Action and Climate Change Select Measures Impacts

How sensitive is the region? And: Where Explore Assess Risks is this dense, complex urban landscape Adaptation and Opportunities most vulnerable?

More information about the adaptation compass: www.future-cities.eu/project/adaptation-compass

3 Flooded land – extreme weather situations captured in pictures

At a terminal of the exhibition you can click into the full archive of Emschergenossenschaft and Lippeverband to look for more climate relevant pictures.

4 EMSCHERGENOSSENSCHAFT Archiv In what respect is the --region affected? Pictures of the exhibition

Körnebach, Dort- Climate predictions state that flooding mund-Scharnhorst, and extreme rainfall events are to be ex- 1922 pected more often. The RIVER ARCHIVE shows which areas were and are at risk. more pictures in the exhibition: 62, 64, 70, 71, Archiv EG Archiv 72, 73, 74

Pumping station Damages caused by flooding have Herringer Bach, a lasting effect. The RIVER ARCHIVE , 1958 raises awareness about measures that have been taken in the past and may be optimised in future. more pictures in the exhibition: Archiv EG Archiv 46, 47

Pumping station Pumping stations are essential buil- Bönen-Bramey- dings to retain the exsiting polder areas. Lenningsen, 1951 They must be protected permanently against flooding. The RIVER ARCHIVE shows the most sensitive locations. more pictures in the exhibition: Archiv EG Archiv 22.1. - 22.18 5 Making this region fit for the future is our task

The Emscher-Lippe-region has undergo- effects of climate change. In a long-term ne major changes due to industrialisation task Emschergenossenschaft and and structural change. Lippeverband rebuild the existing ecosystems as nature-like as possible. River systems have been canalised, are- as were sealed extensively. The land- The adaptation compass provides help scape has no buffer any more against on this track. extreme weather situations. The Emscher at lake Phoenix in But also about 4 million people live in the is an example how to create waterbodies catchment areas of Emscher and Lippe. climate adapted and fit for the future. The region is as vulnerable as deserving protection – its functioning and living The first step is “reading” archives cor- quality must be sustained. rectly: The river archive, but also press-, photo-, municipality’s- and museum’s The ecological enhancement of river sys- archives help to understand the history of tems contributes to reduce the occurring a region, to create a future worth living in.

6 Hans B lossey This region is worth living in.

Emschergenossenschaft And Lippeverband take good care to keep it that way.

7 The exhibition is supported by the Future Cities project

The project is funded in the framework of the European programme INTERREG IV B NWE.

Responsible for the content of the booklet: EMSCHERGENOSSENSCHAFT, Kronprinzenstraße 24, DE - 45128 Essen

Find more information about creating future city regions: www.future-cities.eu

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