Dynamics of Disaster

Lessons on Risk, Response and Recovery
Herausgeber: Allen, Barbara; Dowty Beech, Rachel A

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9781849711432
• ISBN-10: 1849711437
• Artikelnr.: 32702965

Autorenporträt

Rachel A. Dowty is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Louisiana State University, USA Barbara L. Allen is an associate professor and the director of the graduate program in Science, Technology and Society (STS) at Virginia Tech, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Contributors. Foreword. Introduction Part 1:
Environmental, Cultural and Political Concerns 1. Katrina's Contamination:
Regulatory Knowledge Gaps in the Making and Unmaking of Environmental
Contention 2. Organizational Culture and the Katrina Response in Louisiana
3. Hurricane Katrina as a System Accident 4. Conceptualizing Katrina
Reconstructively Part 2: Relocation, Rebuilding and Recovery Concerns 5.
Mind Maps, Memory and Relocation after Hurricane Katrina 6. Post-Katrina
Neighbourhood Recovery Planning in New Orleans 7. Rebuilding the Historic
Treme Neighbourhood: Lessons in the Repatriation of New Orleans Part 3:
International Disasters and Katrina Comparisons 8. The 2002 Flood Disaster
in the Elbe Region, Germany: A Lack of Context-Sensitive Knowledge 9.
Social Dynamics of Unnatural Disasters: Parallels between Hurricane Katrina
and the 2003 European Heat Wave 10. After Disasters: Emergences of National
In-Security in Sri Lanka 11. Response and Recovery in the Remediation of
Contaminated Land in Eastern Germany. Conclusion