Hurricane Katrina and the Forgotten Coast of Mississippi - Hardcover

Cutter, Susan L.; Emrich, Christopher T.; Mitchell, Jerry T.; Piegorsch, Walter W.; Smith, Mark M.; Weber, Lynn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107023947 ISBN 13: 9781107023949

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

This volume examines the impact of Hurricane Katrina on southern Mississippi, in contrast to most studies, which focus on New Orleans. It is highly interdisciplinary and will be especially appealing to researchers and advanced students of natural disasters and policy makers dealing with disaster consequences and recovery.

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Críticas:

'... this book is a thoroughly researched, impressively analyzed, and well-delivered masterpiece. It will certainly set a standard for how scholars treat similar natural disasters in the future.' The Journal of Southern History

Reseña del editor:

Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast in August 2005 with devastating consequences. Almost all analyses of the disaster have been dedicated to the way the hurricane affected New Orleans. This volume examines the impact of Katrina on southern Mississippi. While communities along Mississippi's Gulf Coast shared the impact, their socioeconomic and demographic compositions varied widely, leading to different types and rates of recovery. This volume furthers our understanding of the pace of recovery and its geographic extent, and explores the role of inequalities in the recovery process and those antecedent conditions that could give rise to a 'recovery divide'. It will be especially appealing to researchers and advanced students of natural disasters and policy makers dealing with disaster consequences and recovery.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1107023947
• ISBN 13: 9781107023949
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 207