Disasters are the result of complex interactions between social and natural forces, acting at multiple scales from the individual and community to the organisational, national and international level. Effective disaster planning, response and recovery require an understanding of these interacting forces, and the role of power, knowledge and organizations.
This book sheds new light on these dynamics, and gives disaster scholars and practitioners new and valuable lessons for management and planning in practice. The authors draw on methods across the social sciences to examine disaster response and recovery as viewed by those in positions of authority and the 'recipients' of operations. These first two sections examine cases from Hurricane Katrina, while the third part compares this to other international disasters to draw out general lessons and practical applications for disaster planning in any context. The authors also offer guidance for shaping institutional structures to better meet the needs of communities and residents.
Acknowledgements. Contributors. Foreword. Introduction Part 1:
Environmental, Cultural and Political Concerns
1. Katrina's Contamination:
Regulatory Knowledge Gaps in the Making and Unmaking of Environmental
Contention
2. Organizational Culture and the Katrina Response in Louisiana
3.
Hurricane Katrina as a System Accident
4. Conceptualizing Katrina
Reconstructively Part 2: Relocation, Rebuilding and Recovery Concerns
5. Mind
Maps, Memory and Relocation after Hurricane Katrina
6. Post-Katrina
Neighbourhood Recovery Planning in New Orleans
7. Rebuilding the Historic
Treme Neighbourhood: Lessons in the Repatriation of New Orleans Part 3:
International Disasters and Katrina Comparisons
8. The 2002 Flood Disaster in
the Elbe Region, Germany: A Lack of Context-Sensitive Knowledge
9. Social
Dynamics of Unnatural Disasters: Parallels between Hurricane Katrina and the
2003 European Heat Wave
10. After Disasters: Emergences of National
In-Security in Sri Lanka
11. Response and Recovery in the Remediation of
Contaminated Land in Eastern Germany. Conclusion
Rachel A. Dowty is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Louisiana State University, USA
Barbara L. Allen is an associate professor and the director of the graduate program in Science, Technology and Society (STS) at Virginia Tech, USA
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