Download or read book Race Place and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina written by Robert D. Bullard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Rebuilding the Gulf Coast Following Hurricane Katrina written by United States Senate and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebuilding the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina: hearing before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, November 10, 2005.
Download or read book The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The objective of this report is to identify and establish a roadmap on how to do that, and lay the groundwork for transforming how this Nation- from every level of government to the private sector to individual citizens and communities - pursues a real and lasting vision of preparedness. To get there will require significant change to the status quo, to include adjustments to policy, structure, and mindset"--P. 2.
Download or read book Rebuilding the Gulf Coast Following Hurricane Katrina written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rebuilding the Gulf Coast Following Hurricane Katrina written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebuilding the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina : hearing before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, November 10, 2005.
Download or read book Rebuilding the Gulf Coast Following Hurricane Katrina written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster written by Eugenie L. Birch and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disasters—natural ones, such as hurricanes, floods, or earthquakes, and unnatural ones such as terrorist attacks—are part of the American experience in the twenty-first century. The challenges of preparing for these events, withstanding their impact, and rebuilding communities afterward require strategic responses from different levels of government in partnership with the private sector and in accordance with the public will. Disasters have a disproportionate effect on urban places. Dense by definition, cities and their environs suffer great damage to their complex, interdependent social, environmental, and economic systems. Social and medical services collapse. Long-standing problems in educational access and quality become especially acute. Local economies cease to function. Cultural resources disappear. The plight of New Orleans and several smaller Gulf Coast cities exemplifies this phenomenon. This volume examines the rebuilding of cities and their environs after a disaster and focuses on four major issues: making cities less vulnerable to disaster, reestablishing economic viability, responding to the permanent needs of the displaced, and recreating a sense of place. Success in these areas requires that priorities be set cooperatively, and this goal poses significant challenges for rebuilding efforts in a democratic, market-based society. Who sets priorities and how? Can participatory decision-making be organized under conditions requiring focused, strategic choices? How do issues of race and class intersect with these priorities? Should the purpose of rebuilding be restoration or reformation? Contributors address these and other questions related to environmental conditions, economic imperatives, social welfare concerns, and issues of planning and design in light of the lessons to be drawn from Hurricane Katrina.
Download or read book Building After Katrina written by Betsy Roettger and published by Uva - School of Architecture. This book was released on 2007 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one design an intervention for a specific culture, ecology, and time? How do we respond to both disaster relief and long-term restoration? These articles define these questions and present strategies for rebuilding Gulf Coast communities.
Download or read book Rebuilding Highway and Transit Infrastructure on the Gulf Coast Following Hurricane Katrina written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Highways, Transit, and Pipelines and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mississippi after Katrina written by Jennifer Trivedi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the American Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. Biloxi, Mississippi, a small town on the coast, was one of the towns devastated directly by the storm. Drawing on ethnographic, media, and historic document research and analysis, Jennifer Trivedi explores the pre-disaster cultural, historical, social, political, and economic distinctions that shaped the recovery ofBiloxi and Biloxians. Trivedi examines how networks of people, groups, and institutions worked to prepare for and recover from the hurricane, reinforcing the distinctions that existed before the storm.
Download or read book S Hrg 109 405 written by U. S. Government Printing Office (Gpo) and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) was created in June 1860, and is an agency of the U.S. federal government based in Washington D.C. The office prints documents produced by and for the federal government, including Congress, the Supreme Court, the Executive Office of the President and other executive departments, and independent agencies. A hearing is a meeting of the Senate, House, joint or certain Government committee that is open to the public so that they can listen in on the opinions of the legislation. Hearings can also be held to explore certain topics or a current issue. It typically takes between two months up to two years to be published. This is one of those hearings.
Download or read book Race Place and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina written by Robert D. Bullard and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Rebuilding Highway and Transit Infrastructure on the Gulf Coast Following Hurricane Katrina written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Highways, Transit, and Pipelines and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rebuilding Highway and Transit Infrastructure on the Gulf Coast Following Hurricane Katrina written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Highways, Transit, and Pipelines and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gulf Coast Rebuilding written by Stanley J. Czerwinski and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The devastation caused by the Gulf Coast hurricanes presents the nation with unprecedented challenges as well as opportunities to reexamine shared responsibility among all levels of gov¿t. All levels of gov¿t., together with the private & nonprofit sectors, will need to play a critical role in the process of choosing what, where, & how to rebuild. Agreeing on what the costs are, what federal funds have been provided, & who will bear the costs will be key to the overall rebuilding effort. This testimony: (1) places federal assistance provided to date in the context of damage estimates for the Gulf Coast; & (2) discusses key federal programs that provide rebuilding assistance to the Gulf Coast states. Illustrations.
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Download or read book Rebuilding Highway and Transit Infrastructure on the Gulf Coast Following Hurricane Katrina written by United States House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebuilding highway and transit infrastructure on the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina: state and local officials: hearing before the Subcommittee on Highways, Transit, and Pipelines of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, October 27, 2005.
