Catastrophe in the making [[electronic resource] ] : the engineering of Katrina and the disasters of tomorrow / / William R. Freudenburg ... [et al.] |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2012.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (222 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.34/9220976090511 |
Altri autori (Persone) | FreudenburgWilliam R |
Soggetto topico |
Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Hurricane protection - Louisiana - Evaluation Flood control - Louisiana - New Orleans - Evaluation Levees - Louisiana - New Orleans - History Levees - Mississippi River Emergency management - Louisiana - New Orleans Economic development - Environmental aspects - Louisiana - New Orleans |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-59726-682-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Prologue. The First Days of Katrina -- 1. A Mighty Storm Hits the Shore -- 2. The Setting -- 3. Slicing Through the Swamps -- 4. The Growth Machine Comes to New Orleans -- 5. A “Helpful Explosion” -- 6. The Collapse of Engineered Systems -- 7. The Loss of Natural Defenses -- 8. Critical for Economic Survival? -- 9. The Axe in the Attic -- 10. The End of an Error? -- Endnotes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457686503321 |
Washington, D.C., : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Catastrophe in the making [[electronic resource] ] : the engineering of Katrina and the disasters of tomorrow / / William R. Freudenburg ... [et al.] |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2012.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (222 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.34/9220976090511 |
Altri autori (Persone) | FreudenburgWilliam R |
Soggetto topico |
Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Hurricane protection - Louisiana - Evaluation Flood control - Louisiana - New Orleans - Evaluation Levees - Louisiana - New Orleans - History Levees - Mississippi River Emergency management - Louisiana - New Orleans Economic development - Environmental aspects - Louisiana - New Orleans |
ISBN |
1-59726-231-5
1-59726-682-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Prologue. The First Days of Katrina -- 1. A Mighty Storm Hits the Shore -- 2. The Setting -- 3. Slicing Through the Swamps -- 4. The Growth Machine Comes to New Orleans -- 5. A “Helpful Explosion” -- 6. The Collapse of Engineered Systems -- 7. The Loss of Natural Defenses -- 8. Critical for Economic Survival? -- 9. The Axe in the Attic -- 10. The End of an Error? -- Endnotes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781932203321 |
Washington, D.C., : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Catastrophe in the making [[electronic resource] ] : the engineering of Katrina and the disasters of tomorrow / / William R. Freudenburg ... [et al.] |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2012.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (222 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.34/9220976090511 |
Altri autori (Persone) | FreudenburgWilliam R |
Soggetto topico |
Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Hurricane protection - Louisiana - Evaluation Flood control - Louisiana - New Orleans - Evaluation Levees - Louisiana - New Orleans - History Levees - Mississippi River Emergency management - Louisiana - New Orleans Economic development - Environmental aspects - Louisiana - New Orleans |
ISBN |
1-59726-231-5
1-59726-682-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Prologue. The First Days of Katrina -- 1. A Mighty Storm Hits the Shore -- 2. The Setting -- 3. Slicing Through the Swamps -- 4. The Growth Machine Comes to New Orleans -- 5. A “Helpful Explosion” -- 6. The Collapse of Engineered Systems -- 7. The Loss of Natural Defenses -- 8. Critical for Economic Survival? -- 9. The Axe in the Attic -- 10. The End of an Error? -- Endnotes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817098903321 |
Washington, D.C., : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Challenges in a catastrophe : evacuating New Orleans in advance of Hurricane Katrina : hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, January 31, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (iii, 167 p.) : ill |
Soggetto topico |
Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Evacuation of civilians - Louisiana - New Orleans Emergency transportation - Louisiana - New Orleans Emergency management - Louisiana - New Orleans |
Soggetto non controllato |
Hurricane katrina, 2005
Evacuation of civilians Emergency transportation Emergency management Nature Social science Technology & engineering |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Challenges in a catastrophe |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910694128303321 |
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Creating Katrina, rebuilding resilience : lessons from New Orleans on vulnerability and resiliency / / edited by Michael J. Zakour, Nancy Mock, and Paul Kadetz |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, England ; ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : Butterworth-Heinemann, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (401 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
Disciplina | 307.34160976335 |
Soggetto topico |
Urban renewal - Louisiana - New Orleans
Emergency management - Louisiana - New Orleans |
ISBN |
0-12-809562-8
0-12-809557-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910583371703321 |
Oxford, England ; ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : Butterworth-Heinemann, , 2018 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Hurricane Katrina : a nation still unprepared : special report of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, together with additional views |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | : Washington : U.S. Govt. Printing Off. |
Soggetto topico |
Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Hurricane protection - Louisiana - New Orleans Hurricane protection - Gulf Coast (U.S.) Emergency management - Louisiana - New Orleans Emergency management - Gulf Coast (U.S.) Disaster relief - Louisiana - New Orleans Disaster relief - Gulf Coast (U.S.) Intergovernmental cooperation - United States |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Hurricane Katrina |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910694162103321 |
: Washington : U.S. Govt. Printing Off. | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Hurricane Katrina : managing the crisis and evacuating New Orleans : hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, February 1, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (iii, 135 p.) : ill |
Soggetto topico |
Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Evacuation of civilians - Louisiana - New Orleans Emergency management - Louisiana - New Orleans Emergency transportation - Louisiana - New Orleans Disaster relief - Louisiana - New Orleans |
Soggetto non controllato |
Hurricane katrina, 2005
Evacuation of civilians Emergency management Emergency transportation Disaster relief Nature Social science Technology & engineering |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Hurricane Katrina |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910694122003321 |
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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My storm [[electronic resource] ] : managing the recovery of New Orleans in the wake of Katrina / / Edward J. Blakely ; foreword by Henry Cisneros |
Autore | Blakely Edward J (Edward James), <1938-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 182 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina |
976.3/35064092
B |
Altri autori (Persone) | CisnerosHenry |
Collana | The city in the twenty-first century |
Soggetto topico |
Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Disaster relief - Louisiana - New Orleans Emergency management - Louisiana - New Orleans Urban policy - Louisiana - New Orleans City planning - Louisiana - New Orleans |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-89750-4
0-8122-0706-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. I. Seeing the problem -- pt. II. Where to from here? -- pt. III. Elements of the city -- pt. IV. Assessing the recovery. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464111103321 |
Blakely Edward J (Edward James), <1938-> | ||
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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My storm [[electronic resource] ] : managing the recovery of New Orleans in the wake of Katrina / / Edward J. Blakely ; foreword by Henry Cisneros |
Autore | Blakely Edward J (Edward James), <1938-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 182 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina |
976.3/35064092
B |
Altri autori (Persone) | CisnerosHenry |
Collana | The city in the twenty-first century |
Soggetto topico |
Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Disaster relief - Louisiana - New Orleans Emergency management - Louisiana - New Orleans Urban policy - Louisiana - New Orleans City planning - Louisiana - New Orleans |
Soggetto non controllato |
Autobiography
Biography General Political Science Public Policy Social Science Urban Studies |
ISBN |
1-283-89750-4
0-8122-0706-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. I. Seeing the problem -- pt. II. Where to from here? -- pt. III. Elements of the city -- pt. IV. Assessing the recovery. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788585603321 |
Blakely Edward J (Edward James), <1938-> | ||
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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My storm [[electronic resource] ] : managing the recovery of New Orleans in the wake of Katrina / / Edward J. Blakely ; foreword by Henry Cisneros |
Autore | Blakely Edward J (Edward James), <1938-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 182 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina |
976.3/35064092
B |
Altri autori (Persone) | CisnerosHenry |
Collana | The city in the twenty-first century |
Soggetto topico |
Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Disaster relief - Louisiana - New Orleans Emergency management - Louisiana - New Orleans Urban policy - Louisiana - New Orleans City planning - Louisiana - New Orleans |
Soggetto non controllato |
Autobiography
Biography General Political Science Public Policy Social Science Urban Studies |
ISBN |
1-283-89750-4
0-8122-0706-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. I. Seeing the problem -- pt. II. Where to from here? -- pt. III. Elements of the city -- pt. IV. Assessing the recovery. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814182003321 |
Blakely Edward J (Edward James), <1938-> | ||
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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