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Hurricane Katrina and the Lessons of Disaster Relief.
Hurricane Katrina, which hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, exposed the failings and incompetence of local, state, and federal officials, as well as the private sector and a host of other public and private agencies. This volume explores how inaction, lack of planning and undisguised greed insured that a c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; Introduction; Part 1: First Hand Accounts; Surviving the Hurricane; Holdout: The Story of a Katrina Survivor; Surviving the Flood; Part 2: Saving Lives and Wetlands; Public Health Leadership in a Crisis 2014; The English Turn Forests; The Disaster of Disaster Relief; Part 3: Lessons Learned: Looking Forward; History Made by a Storm; Tourism Responds to Disaster; Climate Change and Future Katrinas; Hurricane Katrina and the Market Response to Disaster; Resiliency For Whom? Public Housing, Class Struggle, and a Real People's Reconstruction of Post-Katrina New Orleans.
- Notes from the Big EasyPostscript; Index.