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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777750603321

Titolo

Race, place, and environmental justice after Hurricane Katrina [[electronic resource] ] : struggles to reclaim, rebuild, and revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast / / edited by Robert D. Bullard, Beverly Wright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, CO, : Westview Press, c2009

ISBN

0-429-97748-4

0-429-49785-7

1-283-13760-7

9786613137609

0-7867-4427-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BullardRobert D <1946-> (Robert Doyle)

WrightBeverly, Ph. D.

Disciplina

976.335064

Soggetti

Crisis management - Louisiana - New Orleans

Disaster relief - Louisiana - New Orleans

Emergency management - Louisiana - New Orleans

Hurricane Katrina, 2005

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; TABLES AND FIGURES; ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART I; PART I I; PART I I I; PART IV; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Analyzing the immediate and long-term repercussions of Hurricane Katrina, the essays in this volume expose the racial disparities that exist in disaster response and recovery and challenge the geography of vulnerability