 Pabna, Bangladesh, 2010. The nongovernmental organization Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha runs a fleet of more than 50 floating schools and libraries in an effort to provide basic education in a severely flood-prone area. Photo: Jonas Bendiksen |
 Arambagh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2009. After a night of heavy rain, Dhaka experienced widespread flooding around the city. Photo: Jonas Bendiksen |
 The roller coaster from the boardwalk in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, USA, partially submerged in the ocean after Hurricane Sandy. Photo: Stephen Wilkes courtesy of Peter Fetterman Gallery |
 Global Green’s Holy Cross community project, Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Photo: Stephen Wilkes |
 TV in the sand post Hurricane Katrina, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, USA. Photo: Stephen Wilke |
 Tacloban, Philippines, 20 November 2013. A man hammers away amidst the destruction caused byTyphoon Haiyan (also known as Yolanda), which hit the islands of Leyte and Samar on 8 November 2013. Photo: Paula Bronstein/Reportage by Getty Images |
 A woman makes her way down the seawall along the Kitakama and Ainokama coastline in Sendai, Japan. After the tsunami in 2011, the Japanese government has spent billions of yen on the reconstruction of a 31.8 km seawall along the Sendai coastline. Photo: Paula Bronstein |
Gaibandha District, Bangladesh, 2010. During the harvest of jute, villagers rest above the floodwaters of the surging Brahmaputra River. A simple adaptation in flood-prone areas is building every house on a two-meter tall mud plinth. Photo: Jonas Bendiksen |
 Stilt houses, Ganvie, Benin. Photo: Iwan Baan |
 Watervilla de Omval, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Photo: Iwan Baan |
 Ganvie, Benin. Photo: Iwan Baan |
