Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast

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Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast

This book about 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.

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Author(s)

Bullard, Robert - Personal Name
Wright, Beverly - Personal Name

Edition

1st

Call Number

976.3 Bul r

ISBN/ISSN

9780813344249

Subject(s)

Crisis Management-New Orleans

Classification

976.3

Series Title

GMD

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Language

English

Publisher

Westview Press

Publishing Year

2009

Publishing Place

Singapore

Collation

290p

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