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Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina
- Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
Engelsk Paperback
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Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina
- Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
Engelsk Paperback

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On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving death and destruction across the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf Coast counties. The lethargic and inept emergency response that followed exposed institutional flaws, poor planning, and false assumptions that are built into the emergency response and homeland security plans and programs. Questions linger: What went wrong? Can it happen again? Is our government equipped to plan for, mitigate, respond to, and recover from natural and manmade disasters? Can the public trust government response to be fair? Does race matter? Racial disparities exist in disaster response, cleanup, rebuilding, reconstruction, and recovery. Race plays out in natural disaster survivors'' ability to rebuild, replace infrastructure, obtain loans, and locate temporary and permanent housing. Generally, low-income and people of color disaster victims spend more time in temporary housing, shelters, trailers, mobile homes, and hotels - and are more vulnerable to permanent displacement. Some ''temporary'' homes have not proved to be that temporary. In exploring the geography of vulnerability, this book asks why some communities get left behind economically, spatially, and physically before and after disasters strike.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
314
ISBN-13:
9780813344249
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0813344247
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Udg. Dato:
10 feb 2009
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
155mm
Forlag:
Taylor & Francis Inc
Oplagsdato:
10 feb 2009
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