Creating Katrina, Rebuilding Resilience: Lessons from New Orleans on Vulnerability and Resiliency

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. The disaster knowledge of diverse disciplines and professions is brought together in this book, with authors from social work, public health, community organizing, sociology, political science, public administration, psychology, anthropology, geography and the study of religion. The editors offer both expert and an insider perspectives on Katrina because they have lived in New Orleans and experienced Katrina and the recovery. An improved understanding of the recovery and reconstruction phases of disaster is also presented, and these disaster stages have been the least examined in the disaster and emergency management literature. Integrates multiple disciplines to study the long-term recovery of the worst non-terrorist disaster in U.S. historyProvides a local perspective, with at least one co-contributor for each chapter living in New OrleansExamines vulnerability and resilience theory and application INDICE: Part I: The Nature of Lessons From Katrina 1. Editors' Introduction 2. Restoring Disaster Survivor Agency: Institutional Violence as Framing for Resistance to this Achievement during Hurricane Katrina Recovery (Shirley Laska, PhD & Susan Howell, PhD, Professor Emeritae at the University of New Orleans) 3. Vulnerability+ Theory: The Integration of Community Disaster Vulnerability and Resiliency Theories (Michael J: Zakour, PhD) Part II: Vulnerability 4. Setting the stage for the Katrina catastrophe; environmental degradation, ignoring science, engineering miscalculation; and human's mismanagement (Ivor van Heerden, Ph:D:) 5. The Three-Century Hurricane: Katrina from a Historical Vantage Point (Daniel Renfrew, PhD and Michael Zakour, PhD) 6. Community Disaster Vulnerability: How Gender Mattered (Pam Jenkins and Nancy Mock) 7. Geography and Vulnerability in Katrina (Richard Campanella) 8. The Role of Faith-Based Charities in Resiliency: The United Methodist Church (Sarah Kreutziger, PhD) 9. The Resiliency of Native Americans in Grand Bayou (Rosina Phillippe) 10. Reading through the storm: Literacy and disaster management in Louisiana (Tara Lambeth, Monica Farris, & Pam Jenkins) 11. Evacuation of Persons with Disabilities in New Orleans (Michael Zakour, PhD) 12. An Institute to Educate Resilience Leaders in New Orleans (Charles Figley and Reggie Parquet) Part IV: Conclusions and the Future of Vulnerability & Resiliency 13. Disaster Resilient Communities: A Systems Perspective (Nancy Mock, DPH) 14. Lessons Learned from Katrina at 10 (Michael Zakour & Nancy Mock)

• ISBN: 978-0-12-809557-7
• Editorial: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 300
• Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés