| Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast Contributor(s): D. Bullard, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367097141 ISBN-13: 9780367097141 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Disasters & Disaster Relief - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 976.335 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.30 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Gulf Coast - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana - Geographic Orientation - Mississippi - Locality - New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |