On Risk and Disaster : Lessons from Hurricane Katrina [1 ed.] 9780812205473, 9780812219593

On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina 9780812205473

Leading experts address questions of public and private roles in assessing, managing, and mitigating major risks to publ

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Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina 9780812204483

This volume examines the rebuilding of cities and their environs after a disaster and focuses on four major issues: maki

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Oil and Water: Media Lessons from Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster 1626741263, 9781626741263

Along the Gulf Coast, history is often referenced as pre-Katrina or post-Katrina. However, the natural disaster that app

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Hurricane Katrina and the Lessons of Disaster Relief [1 ed.] 9781527500785, 9781527518155

Hurricane Katrina, which hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, exposed the failings and incompetence of local, state, and federal

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Hurricane Katrina 9780791096390, 0791096394

Details the events leading to and following the arrival of Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans in

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Racialized Disaster Patriarchy: An Intersectional Model for Understanding Disaster Ten Years after Hurricane Katrina

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What Was Hurricane Katrina? 9780698412408

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What Was Hurricane Katrina? 9780698412408

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Recovering Inequality: Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster 9781477316122

A lethal mix of natural disaster, dangerously flawed construction, and reckless human actions devastated San Francisco i

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Fostering Community Resilience: Homeland Security and Hurricane Katrina 1317133838, 9781317133834

Using the Mississippi Gulf Coast as a case study, this book focuses on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and develops t

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