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Race, Place, and Environmental Justice after Hurricane Katrina - Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast (Hardcover)
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Race, Place, and Environmental Justice after Hurricane Katrina - Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast (Hardcover)
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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.
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