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Second Line Rescue
Second Line Rescue: Improvised Responses to Katrina and Ritachronicles the brave and creative acts through which Gulf Coast people rescued their neighbors during the chaotic aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Ordinary citizens joined in with whatever resources they had. Unlike many of the official responders, vernacular rescuers found ways around paralysis produced by a breakdown in communications and infrastructure. They were able to dispel unfounded fears produced by erroneous or questionable reporting. The essays, personal narratives, media reports, and field studies presented here all have to do with effective and often ingenious answers that emerged from the people themselves. Their solutions are remarkably different from the hamstrung government response, and their perspectives are a tonic to sensationalized media coverage.
The first part of the collection deals with Gulf Coast rescuers from outside stricken communities: those who, safe in their own homes and neighborhoods, marshaled their resources to help their fellow citizens. It includes some analysis and scholarly approaches, but it also includes direct responses and first-hand field reports. The second part features the words of hurricane survivors displaced from New Orleans and other Gulf Coast communities to Houston, Texas. In many cases, the \"victims\" themselves were the first responders, rescuing family, friends, and strangers. All of the stories, whether from the \"outside\" or \"inside\" responders, reveal a shared history of close-knit community bonds and survival skills sharpened by hard times. This book is about what went right in the aftermath of Katrina and Rita--in spite of all that went so wrong.
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Resilience and opportunity : lessons from the U.S. Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita
\"Examines the roles of community grassroots and charitable organizations as well as national, state, and local governments in post-disaster recovery and reform in the education, health care, legal, and political systems and in land use planning. Focuses on rebuilding to achieve more resilient, prosperous, and equitable communities\"--Provided by publisher.
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Re-anchoring capital in disaster-devastated spaces
This paper contributes to scholarship on the relationship between financialisation and the production of urban space by examining the implementation of the Gulf Opportunity (GO) Zone Act of 2005 (Pub. L. No. 109–135). From 2005 to December 2011, the GO Zone provided over $23 billion in tax-free, low-interest bonds and other tax incentives to individuals and businesses in the Gulf Coast area affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Drawing on government documents, planning reports, and interviews, I identify the limitations of the GO Zone and provide a critical assessment of the use of financialisation techniques to revitalise disaster-devastated communities. In doing so, my investigation seeks to deepen scholarly understanding of post-disaster regulatory experiments to illuminate the mechanisms underlying the production and regulation of uneven spatial development. My analysis challenges accounts that locate financialisation in deregulatory initiatives and, in contrast, shows that financialisation is a state-driven process that exacerbates risk and is associated with a series of intense contradictions, regulatory failures, and crisis tendencies.
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From flood control to integrated water resource management
The loss of life and devastation in the Gulf coast region of the United States after the hurricane season of 2005 has led to considerable debate about how to recover from the damage and mitigate damage from future incidents. This document reports the experiences of four major floods since 1948 (two in the United States, one in the Netherlands, and one in China), to draw lessons for the Gulf coast restoration effort.
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Hurricane Elena, Gulf Coast, August 29-September 2, 1985
Hurricane Elena, following an erratic and difficult-to-forecast course along an unusually large section of the Gulf Coast, posed special problems from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Sarasota, Florida, well before it came ashore on September 2, 1985.Considerable wind damage occurred in this area to structures that were ostensibly designed to resist such extreme wind conditions. Because similar design conditions and building control procedures exist along other U.S. hurricane-prone coasts, the conclusions drawn in this detailed book catalog the structural damage caused by the hurricane and emergency response actions, establish the wind conditions of the storm, review in-depth the building control process used in the area, and conduct necessary structural and wind tunnel tests relevant to a large number of communities along the coastal areas.
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Environmental Public Health Impacts of Disasters
Public health officials have the traditional responsibilities of protecting the food supply, safeguarding against communicable disease, and ensuring safe and healthful conditions for the population. Beyond this, public health today is challenged in a way that it has never been before. Starting with the 9/11 terrorist attacks, public health officers have had to spend significant amounts of time addressing the threat of terrorism to human health.
Hurricane Katrina was an unprecedented disaster for the United States. During the first weeks, the enormity of the event and the sheer response needs for public health became apparent. The tragic loss of human life overshadowed the ongoing social and economic disruption in a region that was already economically depressed. Hurricane Katrina reemphasized to the public and to policy makers the importance of addressing long-term needs after a disaster.
On October 20, 2005, the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine held a workshop which convened members of the scientific community to highlight the status of the recovery effort, consider the ongoing challenges in the midst of a disaster, and facilitate scientific dialogue about the impacts of Hurricane Katrina on people's health. Environmental Public Health Impacts of Disasters: Hurricane Katrina is the summary of this workshop. This report will inform the public health, first responder, and scientific communities on how the affected community can be helped in both the midterm and the near future. In addition, the report can provide guidance on how to use the information gathered about environmental health during a disaster to prepare for future events.
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Back to School After Katrina
\"In most communities across the country, students have gone back to school. But in areas of the Gulf Coast hit by Hurricane Katrina, many schools were damaged or destroyed. The Department of Education estimates that 300,000 students must quickly find new schools because of Katrina.\" (Time for Kids) Learn how other states are helping children from areas affected by the hurricane continue their schooling. Find out how teachers are helping by offering to teach extra students.
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USAES deploys Katrina recovery and relief support
\"In the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, the United States Army Engineer School (USAES), Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, responded to the United States Army Corps of Engineers(R) request for support within 24 hours. In September and October 2005, USAES deployed 21 volunteers--Team Katrina--to Louisiana and the surrounding regions...Upon arrival, Team Katrina personnel were deployed to almost every affected parish and immediately began to work alongside Corps of Engineers employees, local officials, state and federal agencies, and nongovernmental organizations to provide much-needed emergency support to citizens of the Gulf Coast.\" (Engineer) USAES support and activities after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are detailed.
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