Hurricane Katrina: Response and Responsibilities
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This book gathers together responses to the hurricane from over thirty contributors, including community activists, sociologists, writers and musicians. Some have been displaced by the hurricane and write about what they have lost. Others write from a distance, seeing patterns in the response to the hurricane that reflect a cultural bias of race and class. Together they offer not only critical assessments of what went wrong, but also hopeful conjecture about possibilities for the future of New Orleans, the Gulf Coast and the United States.
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Here is another retrospective on Hurricane Katrina. Taking a multidisciplinary approach of amassing papers from a variety of specialists. The chapters review the events during Katrina, but the emphasis seems more on the aftermath. There are numerous recommendations about how to avoid future disasters. Some specifically for New Orleans, since it is under sea level and thus the most vulnerable American city.
On a broader scale, the book can be read as a precaution against future hurricanes impinging anywhere on the Gulf coast or Florida. The recommendations are largely uncontroversial. And some of these, like better coordination between government agencies, are already being done.
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