What Was Hurricane Katrina? 9780698412408

What Was Hurricane Katrina? 9780698412408

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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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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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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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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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America’s Most Notorious Natural Disasters: The Great Chicago Fire, the Johnstown Flood, the Galveston Hurricane, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, the Okeechobee Hurricane, and Hurricane Katrina

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts of the disasters *Includes online resources and a bibliography for fu

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

Named one of Planetizen's Top 10 Books of 2006 Hurricane Katrina not only devastated a large area of the nation

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Left to Chance: Hurricane Katrina and the Story of Two New Orleans Neighborhoods 9781477303856

How do survivors recover from the worst urban flood in American history, a disaster that destroyed nearly the entire phy

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Flood of Images: Media, Memory, and Hurricane Katrina [1 ed.] 9780292771352, 9780292771345

Anyone who was not in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding of the city experienced the disas

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After the Storm: The Cultural Politics of Hurricane Katrina [1. Aufl.] 9783839428931

»After the Storm« traces the cultural and political responses to Hurricane Katrina. Ever since Katrina hit the Gulf coas

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