In keeping with many of the themes underpinning the Anthropocene River Campus, Eleonora Rohland explains how the question of adaptation so present post-Katrina has a much longer history in NOLA.

One focus of environmental historian Eleonora Rohland’s work is the city that hosted the Anthropocene River Campus in November 2019: New Orleans. In keeping with many of the themes underpinning the Campus seminars, here she explains how the question of adaptation so present post-Katrina has a much longer history in NOLA, a city and society with a heightened awareness of just what it means to arrive in the Anthropocene.