Susan L. Cutter

Hurricane Katrina and the Forgotten Coast of Mississippi (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139861854
• Artikelnr.: 40617177

Autorenporträt

Susan L. Cutter is Carolina Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of South Carolina and Director of the Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute. Her primary research interests are in the area of hazard vulnerability/resilience science. She has authored or edited twelve books and more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. Dr Cutter serves on many national and international advisory boards and committees, including the US National Research Council, US National Science Foundation, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the Science Committee of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Program. She is an executive editor of Environment and associate editor for Weather, Climate, and Society. In 2010, Dr Cutter received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of American Geographers, and in 2013 she was a recipient of the prestigious Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award. Her most recent book is Hazards, Vulnerability, and Environmental Justice (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The forgotten coast
2. Remembering the coast: the road to Camille
3. The second big one
4. Uneven recovery
5. Powering an unequal recovery
6. Slow going for neighborhoods
7. Waiting for the next Katrina
8. Recovery divides in a changing world
9. Epilogue.