Robert D. Bullard

Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina (eBook, ePUB)

Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving death and destruction across the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf Coast counties. Racial disparities exist in disaster response. This book asks why some communities get left behind economically, spatially, and physically before and after disasters strike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429977480
• Artikelnr.: 54035941

Autorenporträt

Robert D Bullard

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword
Mark H. Morial
president of the National Urban League and former mayor of New Orleans * Introduction
Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright PART I CHALLENGES OF RACIALIZED PLACE * 1 Race
Place
and the Environment in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright * 2 The Overlooked Significance of Place in Law and Policy: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
Debra Lyn Bassett * 3 Transportation Matters: Stranded on the Side of the Road Before and After Disasters Strike
Robert D. Bullard
Glenn S. Johnson
and Angel O. Torres * 4 Katrina and the Condition of Black New Orleans: The Struggle for Justice
Equity
and Democracy
Mtangulizi Sanyika PART II HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT POST-KATRINA * 5 Contaminants in the Air and Soil in New Orleans After the Flood: Opportunities and Limitations for Community Empowerment
Rachel Godsil
Albert Huang
and Gina Solomon * 6 Investing in Human Capital and Healthy Rebuilding in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Sheila J. Webb * 7 Making the Case for Community-Based Laboratories: A New Strategy for Environmental Justice
Earthea Nance PART III EQUITABLE REBUILDING AND RECOVERY * 8 Post-Katrina Profiteering: The New Big Easy
Rita J. King * 9 Rebuilding Lives Post-Katrina: Choices and Challenges in New Orleans Economic Development
Robert K. Whelan and Denise Strong * 10 The Color of Opportunity and the Future of New Orleans: Planning
Rebuilding
and Social Inclusion After Hurricane Katrina
Mafruza Khan * 11 Housing Recovery in the Ninth Ward: Disparities in Policy
Process
and Prospects
Lisa K. Bates and Rebekah A. Green PART IV POLICY CHOICES FOR SOCIAL CHANGE * 12 Unnatural Disaster: Social Impacts and Policy Choices After Katrina
John R. Logan * Afterword: Looking Back to Move Forward
Beverly Wright and Robert D. Bullard