In The Wake Of Hurricane Katrina
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State Of Emergency
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Author : Sari Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-01-01
State Of Emergency written by Sari Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Hurricane Katrina, 2005 categories.
Learning From Catastrophe
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Institute of Behavioral Science University of Colorado
Release Date : 2006
Learning From Catastrophe written by and has been published by Institute of Behavioral Science University of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Business & Economics categories.
"This volume is the product of quick response research conducted in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita."--Acknowledgments.
In The Wake Of Hurricane Katrina
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Author : Clyde Woods
language : en
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Release Date : 2010-07-05
In The Wake Of Hurricane Katrina written by Clyde Woods and has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-05 with Social Science categories.
Assessing the damage left by Hurricane Katrina in social, cultural, and physical terms, the essays in this volume suggest that the nation’s long and historic engagement with the Gulf Coast has entered a new era. While many of the essays analyze Katrina in terms of the relatively recent past, others explore how reaction to the hurricane’s aftermath is rooted in the region’s history. Uniquely combining humanities and social sciences research, the contributors reevaluate the political, social, and economic dynamics that existed before this “natural” disaster and the subsequent responses and actions, or lack thereof. Investigations of public policies, organizations, social movements, and neoliberalism range from a traditional policy case study of the often-neglected Alabama and Mississippi experience to an analysis of urban social movements in New Orleans to a broad critique of local policy that has global implications. Innovative young scholars provide essays on music, literature, tourism, and gender. Interviews with key community leaders and historic poets round out the volume. The many social, political, racial, economic, and personal disasters that followed Katrina produced intellectual dilemmas. How could this happen in the wealthiest nation in the world? How could the U.S. government so callously abandon its citizens when they so desperately needed federal aid? Why was the most powerful military in the world unable or unwilling to act? Readers will find in this collection compelling answers to these, and other, complicated questions.
My Storm
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Author : Edward J. Blakely
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2012-01-31
My Storm written by Edward J. Blakely and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-31 with Social Science categories.
Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointment by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin as Director of the Office of Recovery and Development Administration following Hurricane Katrina. In Katrina's wake, New Orleans and the Gulf Coast suffered a disaster of enormous proportions. Millions of pounds of water crushed the basic infrastructure of the city. A land area six times the size of Manhattan was flooded, destroying 200,000 homes and leaving most of New Orleans under water for 57 days. No American city had sustained that amount of destruction since the Civil War. But beneath the statistics lies a deeper truth: New Orleans had been in trouble well before the first levee broke, plagued with a declining population, crumbling infrastructure, ineffective government, and a failed school system. Katrina only made these existing problems worse. To Blakely, the challenge was not only to repair physical damage but also to reshape a city with a broken economy and a racially divided, socially fractured community. My Storm is a firsthand account of a critical sixteen months in the post-Katrina recovery process. It tells the story of Blakely's endeavor to transform the shell of a cherished American city into a city that could not only survive but thrive. He considers the recovery effort's successes and failures, candidly assessing the challenges at hand and the work done—admitting that he sometimes stumbled, especially in managing press relations. For Blakely, the story of the post-Katrina recovery contains lessons for all current and would-be planners and policy makers. It is, perhaps, a cautionary tale.
Left To Chance
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Author : Steve Kroll-Smith
language : en
Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM
Release Date : 2015-09-01
Left To Chance written by Steve Kroll-Smith and has been published by Univ of TX + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-01 with Social Science categories.
This in-depth study of two black neighborhoods in the wake of Hurricane Katrina vividly captures the struggle and uncertainty in the process of rebuilding. Hurricane Katrina was the worst urban flood in American history, a disaster that destroyed nearly the entire physical landscape of a city, as well as the mental and emotional maps that people use to navigate their everyday lives. Left to Chance takes us into two African American neighborhoods—working-class Hollygrove and middle-class Pontchartrain Park—to learn how their residents have experienced “Miss Katrina” and the long road back to normal life. The authors spent several years gathering firsthand accounts of the flooding, the rushed evacuations that turned into weeks- and months-long exile, and the often confusing and exhausting process of rebuilding damaged homes in a city whose local government had all but failed. As the residents’ stories make vividly clear, government and social science concepts such as “disaster management,” “restoring normality,” and “recovery” have little meaning for people whose worlds were washed away in the flood. For the neighbors in Hollygrove and Pontchartrain Park, life in the aftermath of Katrina has been a passage from all that was familiar and routine to an ominous world filled with existential uncertainty. Recovery and rebuilding become processes imbued with mysteries, accidental encounters, and hasty adaptations, while victories and defeats are left to chance.
In Katrina S Wake
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Author : Donald L Canney
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2010-08-29
In Katrina S Wake written by Donald L Canney and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-29 with Social Science categories.
Of all the Homeland Security agencies operating in New Orleans before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina’s landfall, no agency performed its duties with the same level of diligence and heroism as did the U.S. Coast Guard. Tirelessly, Coasties in helicopters and small boats pulled survivors from rooftops, floating debris, and high ground and ferried them to safety as the rest of us watched live on CNN. Only a few days later, disaster struck again in the form of Hurricane Rita, which left even more people in desperate need of rescue and assistance. In the aftermath of the storms, some 5,000 Coast Guard personnel rescued 33,735 individuals--six times more than the annual average number rescued by the service nationwide. Then, unobserved by the media, the Coast Guard successfully restored the vital navigation aids in the region, preventing further death and destruction. In Katrina’s Wake presents a riveting account of the astounding operations undertaken by the men and women of the U.S. Coast Guard in the aftermath of one of the worst natural disasters ever to strike America. While other government agencies struggled to mobilize and failed to provide real solutions, one small, decentralized agency stepped forward and performed above and beyond the call of duty.
Hurricane Katrina
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Author : Thomas K. Adamson
language : en
Publisher: Bellwether Media
Release Date : 2021-08-01
Hurricane Katrina written by Thomas K. Adamson and has been published by Bellwether Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina swept through the Gulf of Mexico, leaving destruction in its wake. Winds of 125 miles per hour and storm surges as high as 19 feet tall pounded coastlines, displacing millions of people from their homes. In this hi/lo title, reluctant readers will learn about the events of this disaster and its aftermath. Special features including a chart and a map show the extent of devastation caused by the hurricane.
It Takes A Nation
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Author : Laura Dawn
language : en
Publisher: Earth Aware Editions
Release Date : 2006
It Takes A Nation written by Laura Dawn and has been published by Earth Aware Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Nature categories.
Edited by the cultural director of MoveOn.org, It Takes a Nation tells the extraordinary story of how thousands of Americans came together to provide shelter, sustenance, and hope to survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Through MoveOn.org's Hurricane Housing website, volunteers brought aid to evacuees by providing housing, cars, jobs, clothes, healthcare, and, perhaps most important, community. Presenting a positive contrast to the national shame that was widely felt about the Bush administration's handling of the Katrina crisis, these candid first-person accounts and portraits are a moving testament to the power of everyday people to make miracles happen.
In Katrina S Wake
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Author : William B. Boehm
language : en
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
Release Date : 2010
In Katrina S Wake written by William B. Boehm and has been published by U.S. Government Printing Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
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In Katrina S Wake
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Author : Bill McKibben
language : en
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Release Date : 2006-08-03
In Katrina S Wake written by Bill McKibben and has been published by Princeton Architectural Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-03 with Art categories.
"In this collaborative project, photographer Chris Jordan and writers Bill McKibben and Susan Zakin combine their perspectives on the causes and consequences of the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster. Victoria Sloan Jordan's poems touch the emotional terrain with a spareness that echoes the austere visual landscape. Taken together, these four viewpoints bear witness to the profound tragedy and raise challenging questions about the cultural conditions that contributed to its unprecedented severity."--BOOK JACKET.