Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina
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community displacement impacts
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disaster recovery policy
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Estimated Repair Cost
federal law
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Gina Solomon
Glenn S. Johnson
Gulf Coast hurricane victims
High Opportunity Neighborhoods
Housing Recovery
Human Suffering
John R. Logan
Joinpoint Regression Program
Large MPOs
Lisa K. Bates
London Avenue Canal
Louisiana Bucket Brigade
Low Income Homeowners
Lower Ninth Ward
Mafruza Khan
Mtangulizi Sanyika
New Orleans' Katrina survivors
Orleans East
Orleans Neighborhood
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post-disaster racial inequality research
Public Infrastructure
Rachel Godsil
racial injustice
Rebekah A. Green
Rita J. King
Road Home
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Robert D. Bullard
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- ISBN 9780813344249
- Weight: 480g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Feb 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"Robert D. Bullard is Ware Distinguished Professor of Sociology and director of the Environmental Justice Resource centre at Clark Atlanta University. Often considered the"father” of the environmental justice movement, he is the author of Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality(Westview Press, 2000). p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" Beverly Wright is a sociologist and the founding director of the Deep South centre for Environmental Justice at Dillard University in New Orleans. A New Orleans native and Hurricane Katrina survivor, she is the author of In the Wake of the Storm (2006) and Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty (2007).
