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Format: 1 online resource (401 pages) : , illustrations (some color), maps

ISBN: 0-12-809562-8 , 0-12-809557-1

Note: Front Cover -- Creating Katrina, Rebuilding Resilience -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- I. Introduction and Theoretical Framework -- 1 Editors' introduction: The voices of the barefoot scholars -- Classifying Disasters -- New Orleans and the Livin' Ain't Easy -- Vulnerable Lives -- Linking Vulnerability and Resilience -- Working With Cultural Assets -- Classifying Resilience -- Social Infrastructure and Capacity -- Frameworks Utilized in This Volume -- Disasters Require Multiple Perspectives and Paradigms -- The Not-So-Hidden Agendas of Post-Katrina Research -- Hybridizing Knowledge for Disaster Research -- Barefoot Scholars -- A Complex Systems Approach: The Umbrella of Our Theoretical Framework -- Vulnerability and Resilience as a Systems Problem -- Structural Violence and Intersectionality -- Book Sections and Chapters -- References -- 2 Settlement shifts in the wake of catastrophe -- Introduction -- Prologue: New Orleans' Historical Settlement Patterns -- Post-Katrina Residential Settlement Patterns -- Resettlement in Vertical Space -- Resettlement by FEMA Flood Zones -- Resettlement in Horizontal Space -- Conclusions -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 3 Vulnerability-plus theory: The integration of community disaster vulnerability and resiliency theories -- Vulnerability-plus Theory -- The Development Perspective -- Chain of Causality: Root Causes, Structural Constraints, and Unsafe Conditions -- The Pressure and Release model -- Root causes -- Structural constraints -- Unsafe conditions -- Livelihoods -- Leverage points in the PAR model -- Access to Resources Model -- The Resilience Perspective -- Attributes of Resilience Resources -- Robustness -- Redundancy -- Rapidity -- Types of Resources -- Economic development -- Social capital -- Information and communication -- Collective action. , Comparing and Contrasting Vulnerability and Resiliency -- Vulnerability and Resilience Theories Are Complementary -- Continuity Between Vulnerability and Resilience Theories -- Vulnerability-plus Theory as Integration of Theories -- Assumptions of Vulnerability-plus Theory -- Empirical Support -- Causal Chains in V+ Theory -- Root Causes -- Structural Constraints -- Unsafe Conditions -- Hazard Types -- Disaster Characteristics -- Resources -- Summary and Conclusions -- References -- 4 A systems approach to vulnerability and resilience in post-Katrina New Orleans -- Systems Approach to Vulnerability and Resilience -- Key Features of Complex Systems in Post-Katrina Recovery -- Recovery as a Complex Adaptive Social System Problem -- Signals and Information in Post-Katrina Recovery -- Information Blackout -- Monitoring Recovery: The New Orleans Index -- Resiliency, Recovery Planning and Collective Action -- Aid, Culture, and Resilience -- Resilience and Footprint -- In Need of a "New Deal" -- Conclusion: The Road to Complex Recovery -- References -- Further Readings -- 5 "Built-in" structural violence and vulnerability: A common threat to resilient disaster recovery -- Introduction -- Important Terms and Concepts -- Agency -- Resiliency -- Agency Disrespect as Structural Violence -- Trauma -- Delay -- Examples of Structural Violence -- "Louisiana Road Home" and New York City's "Build It Back" -- Shrinking the Footprint or Not?-How Not to Have That Discussion -- The Extreme Structural Violence on the Economically and Politically Powerless -- Evacuation Nightmare -- Health Care Scarcity -- Postdisaster Housing -- How to Stop the Violence -- Owner-Occupied Housing Recovery -- Recovery Planning -- Successful Evacuation That Supports Return -- Expediently Provided, Postdisaster Health Care. , Survivor Aid and Return of Agency to Economically and Politically Disenfranchised -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- II. Disaster Vulnerability -- 6 Setting the Stage for the Katrina Catastrophe: Environmental Degradation, Engineering Miscalculation, Ignoring Science, a... -- Introduction -- Origin and Function of Louisiana's Coastal Wetlands -- The "Natural" Cycle of Wetland Development and Maintenance -- Subsidence and Relative Sea-Level Rise -- Surge and Storm Wind Reduction -- Management of the Coastal Wetlands and the Resultant Dilemma -- Control of the Lower Mississippi River -- Oil and Gas Extraction and the Disruption of Natural Hydrology -- Enhanced Subsidence -- The Mississippi River Gulf Outlet Navigation Channel -- The MRGO "Funnel" -- New Studies-Wetland Storm Reduction Value -- Wetland Role in Surge Reduction -- Computer Modeling to Reconstruct Surge and Waves Along the MRGO -- Effects of MRGO Reach 2 on Waves -- Hurricane Betsy and the 1965 Flood Control Act -- Forensic Investigations-Levee Failures -- Polder Levee Failures -- Accounting for Subsidence and Sea-Level Rise -- Recommendations for Sustainability -- Restore the Coastal Wetland Apron -- Activities since Katrina -- Oversight and use of a science and risk-based engineered levee design process -- Risk-based management planning -- Conclusions: Habitat Sustainability Is Needed to Support Human Resilience -- References -- Further Reading -- 7 Three centuries in the making: Hurricane Katrina from an historical perspective -- Significance of an Historical Perspective -- Conceptual and Theoretical Framework -- Vulnerability and Resilience -- Vulnerability and resiliency -- Community resilience -- Causal chain in Vulnerability-plus theory -- Root causes -- Structural constraints -- Unsafe conditions -- Access to resources -- Political Ecology of New Orleans. , Historical Events Creating Katrina -- The Progression to Vulnerability -- Political and Economic Marginalization of People of Color -- Oil, Canals, and Environmental Degradation -- Migration and Population Displacement Since 1960 -- Results of the Neglect of New Orleans -- Vulnerability and Resilience During Katrina -- Katrina's Natural, Technological, and Organizational Failure Hazards -- The Nature of the Hurricane Katrina Disaster -- The Pattern of Disaster Damage and Loss -- Katrina as Catastrophe -- Resilience Resources -- Environmental Justice: Recovery by Race, Income, Gender, and Age -- Economic Resources -- Information and Communication -- Social Capital -- Collective Action -- Summary and Conclusions -- The Political Ecology of Katrina and Southeast Louisiana -- Implications for Vulnerability-plus Theory -- Root causes -- Structural constraints, dynamic pressures, and risk drivers -- Unsafe locations -- Characteristics of Katrina -- Economic resources -- Information and communication resources -- Social capital resources -- Collective action resources -- Substantive Implications of Katrina -- Policy Implications -- References -- 8 The resilience in the shadows of catastrophe: Addressing the existence and implications of vulnerability in New Orleans a... -- Introduction -- Vulnerability Defined -- Resilience Defined -- The New Orleans and Southeastern Louisiana "Catastrophe" -- The New Orleans Vulnerability and Resilience Paradigm -- Causal Process: The New Orleans and Southeastern Louisiana "Catastrophe" -- Root Causes -- Dynamic Pressures -- Unsafe Conditions -- Predictors of Social Vulnerability in Louisiana: A Multilevel Analysis -- Addressing Vulnerability in New Orleans and Southeastern Louisiana -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Readings. , 9 Problematizing vulnerability: Unpacking gender, intersectionality, and the normative disaster paradigm -- Introduction -- Problematizing the Essentializing of Female Vulnerability in Disaster Research -- Fitting One Size of Vulnerability to All -- Vulnerabilities in the Context of New Orleans -- Framework for Understanding Urban Vulnerability in New Orleans -- The Intersectionality of Gendered Vulnerability in New Orleans -- Financial Vulnerability -- Housing Vulnerability -- Health Care, Education, and Transportation -- Political Economy and Neoliberal Vulnerabilities -- Other Intersectionalities of Gendered Vulnerability in New Orleans -- Conclusion -- References -- Further Reading -- III. Disaster Resilience -- 10 Culture and resilience: How music has fostered resilience in post-Katrina New Orleans -- Introduction -- Background: Supporting Resilience From the Outside -- Understanding Resilience and Designing the Research -- The Context for This Research -- Questions to be Answered -- Methodology -- Study Design -- Sample -- Data Collection -- Data Analysis -- Ethics -- Locating Resilience in Musical Performance -- Risk Factors, Stress, and Mental Health -- Protective Factors and Assets -- Social Support -- Connections to Community and Mentoring -- The Impact of Music Performance on Performers and Audience Members -- Hobfoll's Conservation of Resources Theory -- Conclusion -- References -- 11 Resilience among vulnerable populations: The neglected role of culture -- Introduction -- The Resilience and Recovery Frameworks -- Resilience -- Recovery -- Resilience and Recovery -- Application of Current Frameworks to the Vietnamese-American Community in Post-Katrina New Orleans -- Recovery -- Resilience -- The Missing Piece: Culture -- Application of an Expanded Framework to the Vietnamese-American Community in Post-Katrina New Orleans. , Culture Confounders.

Language: English