Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South : Two Centuries of Catastrophe, Risk, and Resilience /

Hurricanes, floods, oil spills, disease, and disappearing wetlands are some of the many environmental disasters that impact the Gulf South. The contributors to Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South explore the threat, frequency, and management of this region's disasters from the mid-nineteen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Steinberg, Theodore, 1961- (writer of afterword.), Ermus, Cindy, 1979- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Naturkatastrophe
Natural disasters.
Introduced organisms.
Emergency management.
Emergency management > Gulf States.
Introduced organisms > Gulf States > History.
Natural disasters > Gulf States > History.
USA > Südstaaten
United States > Gulf States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Satire and politics in the New Orleans flood of 1849 / Greg O'Brien
  • Epidemics, empire, and eradication: global public health and yellow fever control in New Orleans / Urmi Engineer Willoughby
  • The complete story of the Galveston horror: trauma, history, and the great storm of 1900 / Andy Horowitz
  • The 1928 hurricane in Florida and the wider Caribbean / Christopher M. Church
  • Swamp things: invasive species as environmental disaster in the Gulf South / Abraham H. Gibson and Cindy Ermus
  • Political-ecological emergence of space and vulnerability in the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans / Roberto E. Barrios
  • Katrina is coming to your city: storm- and flood-defense infrastructures in risk society / Kevin Fox Gotham.

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