Perceptions Of New Orleans Residents Regarding Emergency Public Information During Hurricane Katrina

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Perceptions of New Orleans Residents Regarding Emergency Public Information During Hurricane Katrina

Author : Christine A. Titus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Perceptions of New Orleans Residents Regarding Emergency Public Information During Hurricane Katrina written by Christine A. Titus and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane Katrina had an impact on the city of New Orleans that was seen around the world. Destruction of property, loss of lives, damage to homes, and complete failure of infrastructure affected the city and citizens in a variety of ways. The highly visible plight of victims and the major losses suffered by residents became a very visible subject in mass media, and a great deal of research has been aimed at measuring impact of damage caused by this disaster. In addition to significant financial, property, and personal losses, Hurricane Katrina had a profound social impact on population in the city of New Orleans. One important consideration is the effect of risk and crisis communications on public perceptions of information regarding Hurricane Katrina. Using a participant survey consisting of Likert-type scaled responses and open-ended responses, this research analyzed confidence in risk and crisis communication and the effects on public perceptions.

The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina

Author :
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The objective of this report is to identify and establish a roadmap on how to do that, and lay the groundwork for transforming how this Nation- from every level of government to the private sector to individual citizens and communities - pursues a real and lasting vision of preparedness. To get there will require significant change to the status quo, to include adjustments to policy, structure, and mindset"--P. 2.

City Adrift

Author : Jenni Bergal
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807133868
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book City Adrift written by Jenni Bergal and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane Katrina was a stunning example of complete civic breakdown. Beginning on August 29, 2005, the world watched in horror as—despite all the warnings and studies—every system that might have protected New Orleans failed. Levees and canals buckled, pouring more than 100 billion gallons of floodwater into the city. Botched communications crippled rescue operations. Buses that might have evacuated thousands never came. Hospitals lost power, and patients lay suffering in darkness and stifling heat. At least 1,400 Louisianans died in Hurricane Katrina, more than half of them from New Orleans, and hundreds of thousands more were displaced, many still wondering if they will ever be able to return. How could all of this have happened in twenty-first-century America? And could it all happen again? To answer these questions, the Center for Public Integrity commissioned seven seasoned journalists to travel to New Orleans and investigate the storm’s aftermath. In City Adrift: New Orleans Before and After Katrina, they present their findings. The stellar roster of contributors includes Pulitzer Prize-winner John McQuaid, whose earlier work predicted the failure of the levees and the impending disaster; longtime Boston Globe newsman Curtis Wilkie, a French Quarter resident for nearly fifteen years; and Katy Reckdahl, an award-winning freelance journalist who gave birth to her son in a New Orleans hospital the day before Katrina hit. They and the rest of the investigative team interviewed homeowners and health officials, first responders and politicians, and evacuees and other ordinary citizens to explore the storm from numerous angles, including health care, social services, housing and insurance, and emergency preparedness. They also identify the political, social, geographical, and technological factors that compounded the tragedy. Comprehensive and balanced, City Adrift provides not only an assessment of what went wrong in the Big Easy during and following Hurricane Katrina, but also, more importantly, a road map of what must be done to ensure that such a devastating tragedy is never repeated.

Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina

Author : Robert D. Bullard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429977484
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina written by Robert D. Bullard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Voices from the Storm

Author : Lola Vollen
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642595462
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Voices from the Storm written by Lola Vollen and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane Katrina inflicted damage on a scale unprecedented in American history, nearly destroying a major city and killing thousands of its citizens. With far too little help from indifferent, incompetent government agencies, the poor bore the brunt of the disaster. The residents of traditionally impoverished and minority communities suffered incalculable losses and endured unimaginable conditions. And the few facilities that did exist to help victims quickly became miserable, dangerous places. Now, the victims of Hurricane Katrina find themselves spread across the United States, far from the homes they left and faced with the prospect of starting anew. Families are struggling to secure jobs, homes, schools, and a sense of place in unfamiliar surroundings. Meanwhile, the rebuilding of their former home remains frustrating out of their hands. This bracing read brings readers to the heart of the disaster and its aftermath as those who survived it speak with candor and eloquence of their lives then and now.

The Repopulation of New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina

Author : Kevin F. McCarthy
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833041150
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Repopulation of New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina written by Kevin F. McCarthy and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2006-04-05 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 2005, New Orleans city leaders asked RAND to estimate the repopulation of the city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The Bring New Orleans Back Commission needed estimates of the city's population in the immediate and near-term future to guide the redevelopment planning process. An assessment of flood damage to housing based on the depth of floodwater and the likely pace of reconstruction of damaged housing guided the estimates.

Hurricane Katrina and the Perception of Risk

Author : Nnenia Marie Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book Hurricane Katrina and the Perception of Risk written by Nnenia Marie Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper identifies social conditions that shape perceptions of risk to environmental toxins among residents in the Gulf Coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina. Demographic information from a randomly selected sample of 2,548 residents was used to explore the concept of the "White male effect" as discussed in previous literature, which has found that white males are particularly risk accepting compared to all other race and gender groups. This analysis also evaluated the influence of trust in government and beliefs about environmental justice on perceived exposure and compared responses from residents within and outside the City of New Orleans to determine whether there is evidence of location-specific differences. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed strong support for the combined race and gender effects proposed by previous literature. Additionally, hypotheses regarding the influence of trust in government and belief in environmental injustice were supported. Suggestions for future research and policy implications are discussed.

Left to Chance

Author : Steve Kroll-Smith
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1477303855
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Left to Chance written by Steve Kroll-Smith and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth study of two black neighborhoods in the wake of Hurricane Katrina vividly captures the struggle and uncertainty in the process of rebuilding. Hurricane Katrina was the worst urban flood in American history, a disaster that destroyed nearly the entire physical landscape of a city, as well as the mental and emotional maps that people use to navigate their everyday lives. Left to Chance takes us into two African American neighborhoods—working-class Hollygrove and middle-class Pontchartrain Park—to learn how their residents have experienced “Miss Katrina” and the long road back to normal life. The authors spent several years gathering firsthand accounts of the flooding, the rushed evacuations that turned into weeks- and months-long exile, and the often confusing and exhausting process of rebuilding damaged homes in a city whose local government had all but failed. As the residents’ stories make vividly clear, government and social science concepts such as “disaster management,” “restoring normality,” and “recovery” have little meaning for people whose worlds were washed away in the flood. For the neighbors in Hollygrove and Pontchartrain Park, life in the aftermath of Katrina has been a passage from all that was familiar and routine to an ominous world filled with existential uncertainty. Recovery and rebuilding become processes imbued with mysteries, accidental encounters, and hasty adaptations, while victories and defeats are left to chance.

My Storm

Author : Edward J. Blakely
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812207068
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book My Storm written by Edward J. Blakely and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointment by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin as Director of the Office of Recovery and Development Administration following Hurricane Katrina. In Katrina's wake, New Orleans and the Gulf Coast suffered a disaster of enormous proportions. Millions of pounds of water crushed the basic infrastructure of the city. A land area six times the size of Manhattan was flooded, destroying 200,000 homes and leaving most of New Orleans under water for 57 days. No American city had sustained that amount of destruction since the Civil War. But beneath the statistics lies a deeper truth: New Orleans had been in trouble well before the first levee broke, plagued with a declining population, crumbling infrastructure, ineffective government, and a failed school system. Katrina only made these existing problems worse. To Blakely, the challenge was not only to repair physical damage but also to reshape a city with a broken economy and a racially divided, socially fractured community. My Storm is a firsthand account of a critical sixteen months in the post-Katrina recovery process. It tells the story of Blakely's endeavor to transform the shell of a cherished American city into a city that could not only survive but thrive. He considers the recovery effort's successes and failures, candidly assessing the challenges at hand and the work done—admitting that he sometimes stumbled, especially in managing press relations. For Blakely, the story of the post-Katrina recovery contains lessons for all current and would-be planners and policy makers. It is, perhaps, a cautionary tale.

Emergency Management and Social Intelligence

Author : Charna R. Epstein
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1040081339
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Emergency Management and Social Intelligence written by Charna R. Epstein and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For effective preparedness, emergency managers must comprehend how a disaster impacts not only the physical infrastructure of the affected community but also the population. They must understand how the people interact with one another, how they interact with government, and how they react to the disaster event. In other words, they must have socia

Racing the Storm

Author : Hillary Potter
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739119747
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Racing the Storm written by Hillary Potter and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit land and gravely affected the lives of many people in the states along the Gulf Coast. Katrina went beyond demonstrating the devastating natural effects of a hurricane by exposing the continuing significance of race relations and racial stereotyping in U.S. society. Racing the Storm serves to highlight the race-based perceptions of and responses to Katrina survivors by governmental entities, volunteers, the media, and the general public. Scholars from a variety of disciplines take on the task of analyzing the social phenomena and racial implications surrounding Hurricane Katrina. Book jacket.

Challenges in a Catastrophe: Evacuating New Orleans in Advance of Hurricane Katrina: Congressional Hearing

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781422320372
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (23 download)

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Lessons Learned from Katrina in Public Health Care

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lessons Learned from Katrina in Public Health Care written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Subcommittee on Bioterrorism and Public Health Preparedness and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Seeking Higher Ground

Author : M. Marable
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230610099
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Seeking Higher Ground written by M. Marable and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane Katrina of August-September 2005, one of the most destructive natural disasters in U.S. history, dramatically illustrated the continuing racial and class inequalities of America. In this powerful reader, Seeking Higher Ground, prominent scholars and writers examine the racial impact of the disaster and the failure of governmental, corporate and private agencies to respond to the plight of the New Orleans black community. Contributing authors include Julianne Malveaux, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Ronald Walters, Chester Hartman, Gregory D. Squires, Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Alan Stein, and Gene Preuss. This reader is the second volume of the Souls Critical Black Studies Series, edited by Manning Marable, and produced by the institute for Research in African-American Studies of Columbia University.

A Failure of Initiative

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book A Failure of Initiative written by United States. Congress. House. Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina

Author :
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster

Author : Gregory Squires
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136084827
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster written by Gregory Squires and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster is the first comprehensive critical book on the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. The disaster will go down on record as one of the worst in American history, not least because of the government’s inept and cavalier response. But it is also a huge story for other reasons; the impact of the hurricane was uneven, and race and class were deeply implicated in the unevenness. Hartman and. Squires assemble two dozen critical scholars and activists who present a multifaceted portrait of the social implications of the disaster. The book covers the response to the disaster and the roles that race and class played, its impact on housing and redevelopment, the historical context of urban disasters in America and the future of economic development in the region. It offers strategic guidance for key actors - government agencies, financial institutions, neighbourhood organizations - in efforts to rebuild shattered communities.