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Creating Katrina, Rebuilding Resilience
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Lessons from New Orleans on Vulnerability and Resiliency
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Artikel-Nr:
9780128095577
Veröffentl:
2017
Erscheinungsdatum:
13.11.2017
Seiten:
420
Autor:
Michael J Zakour
Gewicht:
885 g
Format:
234x185x30 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Creating Katrina, Rebuilding Resilience: Lessons from New Orleans on Vulnerability and Resiliency presents a unique, integrative understanding of Hurricane Katrina in the New Orleans area, and the progression to disaster vulnerability as well as resilience pathways. The book integrates the understanding of vulnerability and resiliency by examining the relationships among these two concepts and theories.
PART I. INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 1. Editors' introduction: The voices of the barefoot Scholars 2. Settlement shifts in the wake of catastrophe 3. Vulnerability-plus theory: The integration of community disaster vulnerability and resiliency theories 4. A systems approach to vulnerability and resilience in post-Katrina New Orleans 5. "Built-in? structural violence and vulnerability: A common threat to resilient disaster recovery