Local Governance and Community Resilience: How Internal Drainage Boards (IDBs) and Communities Managed Flooding in England

Of time and timing: Internal Drainage Boards and water level management in the River Hull Valley (2021)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2022). Of time and timing: Internal Drainage Boards and water level management in the River Hull Valley. Environmental History, 27(1), 86-112. https://doi.org/10.1086/717438

This article applies a path-dependency approach to better understand the potentialities and limitations of non-main rivers in England. Using the River Hull Valley of the East Riding as an example, the study explores the underlying historical dynamics... Read More about Of time and timing: Internal Drainage Boards and water level management in the River Hull Valley.

Malaria, water management, and identity in the English lowlands (2018)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2018). Malaria, water management, and identity in the English lowlands. Environmental History, 23(3), 470-494. https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emx137

Much of the eastern seaboard of England lying between East Yorkshire and the Pevensey Levels in Kent constitutes an English Lowlands, a distinctive region characterized by large areas of marsh and fen, and a subculture borne out of the vicissitudes a... Read More about Malaria, water management, and identity in the English lowlands.