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Aguirre, B. E. THE 1999 FLOODS IN VERACRUZ AND THE PARADIGM OF VULNERABILITY. Newark, DE: Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware; 2004. Keywords: Floods-Case Studies; Disaster Preparedness; Developing Countries' Problems; Mitigation Call Number: 25.341.A3.N5 Abstract: This study examines the distribution of warnings and of services to victims of the 1999 floods in Veracruz, Mexico and offers a criticism of vulnerability as the dominant paradigm guiding national and international disaster-related programs. It has sections on the vulnerability paradigm, the 1999 flood, and the methods used in the analysis. The information comes from a survey of 385 head of households flood victims residing in three cities in the north of Veracruz, Poza Rica, Gutierrez Zamora, and Tecolutla. The results indicate that government services to the population threatened by the floods were almost nonexistent. Radio programming and personal relations with friends, neighbors, and kin, were the most important sources of warnings about the hazard. The respondents' integration in their communities and the social organizations of these communities were key determinants of their receipt of warnings and assistance such as vertical evacuation sheltering. Authorities should place much greater emphasis than they do now on facilitating the use of vertical evacuation and the service of radio stations providing information to communities at risk of extreme weather events, improving their weather and disaster-preparedness programming and making radios available to people in areas at risk of severe weather and other hazards. Disaster preparedness and mitigation need to be made part of their efforts in community development, encouraging the growth of social capital that can be used for disaster response and recovery. The implications of these findings for the continued use of the paradigm of vulnerability that provides guidelines to present- day international assistance at times of disasters are considered.

Shelby, Ashley. RED RIVER RISING: THE ANATOMY OF A FLOOD AND THE SURVIVAL OF AN AMERICAN CITY. St. Paul, MN: Borealis Books; 2003; ISBN: 0-87351-500-5. Keywords: Floods-Case Studies; Historical Account; Disaster Recovery Call Number: 130.S4.R4 Notes: LCCN: 2003025177 Contents: Introduction The Way Winter Ends River Town Watersick Red River Rising Flood and Fire Devastation Angels and Devils The Value of Home The Mistake To Rebuild a City You Must Take It Apart Flood Angst Disaster Democracy After the Flood

Sothern, Billy. DOWN IN NEW ORLEANS: REFLECTIONS FROM A DROWNED CITY. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press; 2007; ISBN: 978-0-520-25149-6. Keywords: Hurricanes-Case Studies; Floods-Case Studies; Historical Account; Sheltering; Ethnic and Minority Aspects; Emergency Management Call Number: 130.S6.D6 Notes: LCCN: 2007000213 Photographs by Nikki Page Contents: Part I: Heading Straight for Us: The Days Before and After Hurricane Katrina A Man Leaves Home A Stranger Comes to Town "This Blues is Just Too Big" Part II: This Could be Anywhere: Katrina's Immediate Aftermath, Late Summer 2006 A Dollar Short Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short Not in My Backyard Left to Die Bring the War Home The Dry Run of the Apocalypse History Repeats Itself Part III: Personals: Departures and Homecomings Going Home Oxford Town I Do Believe I've Had Enough Everyday Reminders Part IV: Against the Ropes: New Orleans's Unlikely Recovery Second Line Gideon's Blues Live from the Circle Bar Corporate Limits Fat Tuesday Hard Lot La Nueva Orleans Yours in Struggle In the Parish Not Resigned Epitaph

Abstract: “Post-Katrina New Orleans hasn’t been an easy place to live, it hasn’t been an easy place to be in love, it hasn’t been an easy place to take care of yourself or see the bright side of things.” So reflects Billy Sothern in this riveting and unforgettable insider’s chronicle of the epic 2005 disaster and the year that followed. Sothern, a death penalty lawyer who with his wife, photographer Nikki Page, arrived in the Crescent City four years ahead of Katrina, delivers a haunting, personal, and quintessentially American story. Writing with an idealist’s passion, a journalist’s eye for detail, and a lawyer’s attention to injustice, Sothern recounts their struggle to come to terms with the enormity of the apocalyptic scenario they managed to live through. He guides the reader on a journey through post-storm New Orleans and an array of indelible images: prisoners abandoned in their cells with waters rising, a longtime New Orleans resident of Middle Eastern descent unfairly imprisoned in the days following the hurricane, trailer-bound New Orleanians struggling to make ends meet but celebrating with abandon during Mardi Gras, Latino construction workers living in their trucks. As a lawyer- activist who has devoted his life to seeking justice for some of society’s most disenfranchised citizens, Sothern offers a powerful vision of what Katrina has meant to New Orleans and what it still means to the nation at large.

.Travis, Mary Ann. KATRINA FIVE YEARS GONE. New Orleans, LA: Tulane Office of University Publications; 2010 Summer; 82, (1): 12-21. Keywords: Hurricanes-Case Studies; Floods-Case Studies; Disaster Recovery; Education/ School; Statistics Call Number: 131.T7.K3 (VF) Notes: File also contains: Can Do by Carol J. Schuleter Abstract: The cataclysmic storm that five years ago shook the university and the city of New Orleans to their foundations proves to be a catalyst for change.

Weber, Caroline. APRES LE DELUGE: THE 1910 FLOOD BROUGHT PARISIANS TOGETHER EVEN AS IT STRAINED RESOURCES AND INUNDATED HOMES. New York: The New York Times; 2010 Jan 31: 19. Keywords: Floods-Case Studies; Social Response; Disaster Response; Disaster Recovery Call Number: 131.W4.A6 (VF) Notes: Review of Paris Under Water: How the City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910. Book is available in the Resource Collection under call no. 150.J3.P3

Carr, David. A DISASTER STILL RAW, YEARS LATER [Web Page]. 2009 Apr 6; Accessed 2009 Apr 20. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/business/media/06carr.html?em. Keywords: Hurricanes-Case Studies; Floods-Case Studies; Disaster Recovery; Mass Media Call Number: 132.C3.D5.1 (VF) Abstract: Last week, the 2600 block of Annette Street in New Orleans looked like a place frozen at a very bad moment in time. There were tree limbs everywhere and a dump truck overturned in front of a row of houses with perforated walls that all seemed to sag in different directions. More than three- and-a-half years after Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed the city, it was as if the flood had just receded from this street in the Seventh Ward. The tableau was in fact a man-made disaster — a set for the pilot of “Treme,” an HBO series about a group of New Orleans musicians picking up the pieces after the flood. But then, many people would say that the flood that followed the hurricane was man-made as well.

Ellick, Adam B. FLOODS COULD HAVE LASTING IMPACT FOR PAKISTAN [Web Page]. 2010 Aug 16; Accessed 2010 Aug 18. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/world/asia/17pstan.html? emc=eta1. Keywords: Floods-Case Studies; Disaster Recovery; Developing Countries' Problems Call Number: 132.E4.F5 (VF) Abstract: Even as the government and international relief workers struggle to get food and clean water to millions of flood-stricken Pakistanis, concerns are growing about the enduring toll of the disaster on the nation’s overall economy, food supply and political stability. More rain fell on Monday, adding to the worst flooding in memory and confronting Pakistan with a complex array of challenges, government and relief officials warned. Though they range over the immediate, medium and long term, nearly all need to be addressed urgently. Providing clean water for millions and avoiding the spread of diseases like cholera are the first priorities. But there are also looming food shortages and price spikes, even in cities. There is also the danger that farmers will miss the fall planting season, raising the prospect of a new cycle of shortfalls next year.

Elliott, Debbie, Reporter. FILLING IN NEW ORLEANS' FUTURE, ONE BLANK AT A TIME [Web Page]. 2012 Jul 2; Accessed 2012 Aug 2. Available at: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php? storyId=155916382. Keywords: Hurricanes-Case Studies; Floods-Case Studies; Disaster Recovery; City Planning; Economics Call Number: 132.E4.F5.1 (VF) Notes: Transcript of news story broadcast on NPR File includes 10 listener comments Abstract: Article describes urban planning that took place to rebuild New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and the impact that the recovery process has had on entrepreneurs and start-up businesses.

KATRINA'S UNFINISHED BUSINESS [Web Page]. 2010 Nov 2; Accessed 2010 Nov 3. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/03/opinion/03wed3.html?_r=1&emc=eta1. Keywords: Hurricanes-Case Studies; Floods-Case Studies; Disaster Recovery; Reconstruction Call Number: 132.K3.5 (VF) Notes: A copy of the report referenced in the article can be found in the Resource Collection under call no. 154.P5.B4 (VF) Abstract: New Orleans is finally rebounding from much of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. But five years later, a big problem remains: blighted neighborhoods. To attract a vibrant middle class, these neighborhoods need to be repaired and restored, or, at the very least, stabilized. Residents who have been unable to rebuild because storm relief grants were too small or unfairly 3 calculated need more help from the city and state.

A RESIDENT REBUILDS (PARTS 1 AND 2) [Web Page]. Accessed 2007 Sep 17. Available at: http://video.on.nytimes.com. Keywords: Hurricanes-Case Studies; Disaster Recovery; Reconstruction Call Number: 132.M6.2 (VF) Notes: "William Pickett, who drives a buggy in the French Quarter, explains how he and his dog escaped the floods and returned to rebuild his mid-city home." Print-out of web page containing video link.

Robertson, Campbell. IN NEW ORLEANS, RECOVERY IS NOT ENOUGH. 2009 Aug 31. Keywords: Hurricanes-Case Studies; Disaster Recovery Call Number: 132.R6.I5.1 (VF) Abstract: Houses still sit empty, residents are still scattered and streets still echo with the sounds of hammers and power saws. But on the fourth anniversary of the hurricane that redefined its future, New Orleans is no longer talking about mere recovery. Yes, people are returning: the number of households receiving mail is now more than three-fourths of the pre-Katrina figures, according to the latest estimates, up from fewer than half three years ago. Projects stalled by red tape and the bad credit market, like the Lafitte public housing complex, are finally getting back on track. But reverting to the city that existed here before the flood is not the goal. For a city that justly if sometimes self-consciously relishes its own nostalgia, there was much about pre-Katrina New Orleans, from the unstable floodwalls to the stagnant economy, that was best left behind. Employment had not grown for the six years before the storm. The population had been shrinking since the 1960s. In 2005, there were only two Fortune 500 companies with headquarters here — now there is only one, Entergy, a power company.

Robertson, Campbell. ON ANNIVERSARY OF KATRINA, SIGNS OF HEALING [Web Page]. 2010 Aug 27; Accessed 2010 Aug 30. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/us/28katrina.html? _r=1&emc=eta1. Keywords: Hurricanes-Case Studies; Floods-Case Studies; Disaster Recovery Call Number: 132.R6.O5 (VF) Abstract: This city, not that long ago, appeared to be lost. Only five years have passed since corpses were floating through the streets, since hundreds of thousands of survivors sat in hotel rooms and shelters and the homes of relatives, learning from news footage that they were among the ranks of the homeless. For most of the last year, in many parts of the city, the waters finally seemed to be receding. In November, a federal judge ruled that much of the flooding after Hurricane Katrina was a result of the negligence of the Army Corps of Engineers, vindicating New Orleanians, who had hammered this gospel for four years. In January, the federal government cleared the way for nearly half a billion dollars in reimbursement for the city’s main public hospital, an acceleration of funds that led to the announcement this week that nearly $2 billion more would be coming in a lump-sum settlement for city schools.

Saulny, Susan. AFTER IOWA FLOOD, FEELING JUST A BIT IGNORED [Web Page]. 2009 Aug 28; Accessed 2009 Aug 28. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/us/28cedar.html?emc=eta1. Keywords: Floods-Case Studies; Disaster Recovery Call Number: 132.S3.A3.2 (VF) Abstract: It was more than a year ago that the core of this city was submerged to its rooftops, a result of record flooding on the Cedar River that caused an estimated $6 billion in damage — among the most costly natural disasters since Hurricane Katrina. The outpouring of attention toward New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, ratcheting up again now as the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, has not been seen here. In fact, the people of Cedar Rapids are feeling neglected. The recovery here is only limping along as waterlogged buildings are still being gutted, thousands of displaced families remain in temporary housing, and large-scale demolition to make way for a new downtown has just begun.

Trethewey, Natasha. OUR LOSS, THROUGH THE EYES OF THE STORM [Web Page]. 2010 Aug 28; Accessed 2010 Aug 30. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29trethewey.html? emc=eta1&pagewanted=print. Keywords: Hurricanes-Case Studies; Floods-Case Studies; Disaster Recovery Call Number: 132.T7.O8 (VF) Abstract: Two years ago, on one of my many journeys home to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, I saw on the side of the road the campaign placard of a local politician. “Katrina isn’t over,” the sign read. I could see then, as I can now, five years after the hurricane, that it is true. The part of the city of Gulfport I was entering that day, a section called North Gulfport, remains one of the most blighted areas on the coast. Highway 49 cuts through it, and on either side of the highway there are “for sale” signs, condemned structures awaiting demolition, empty lots strewn with trash and overgrown with weeds, and a few neat houses hunkered against the neighborhood’s demise. This stretch along the highway, roughly five miles up from the beach, is where I am from, where my ancestors settled three generations back and where my cousin Tammy lives still, with my brother Joe nearby.

Blakely, Edward J. MY STORM: MANAGING THE RECOVERY OF NEW ORLEANS IN THE WAKE OF KATRINA. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press; 2012; ISBN: 978-0-8122- 4385-7. Keywords: Hurricanes-Case Studies; Floods-Case Studies; Disaster Recovery; Government; Economics Call Number: 150.B5.M8 Notes: LCCN: 2011026052 Contents: Introduction Part I. Seeing the Problem An Alarming View from Down Under Getting to New Orleans A Harbinger of Problems to Come "Fix It!" Part II. Where to From Here? Imagining a Future Out of Mud: A Recovery Plan Inside the Mayor's "Cocoon" Putting My Team on the Field: Recovery Administration Politics and Money Reviving a Drowning Economy Part III. Elements of the City In Search of Civic Leadership More than Bricks and Sticks: Reviving Neighborhoods The Race Cards of Recovery A Medium Off Message Levees and FEMA: The Real Hazards for New Orleans Part IV. Assessing the Recovery Chance to Assess the Recovery The "Big Easy," Nothing Comes Easy, Not Even Leaving Chapter Notes Appendix: Memorandum of Understanding Abstract: Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointment by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin as Director of the Office of Recovery and Development Administration following Hurricane Katrina.

5 In Katrina's wake, New Orleans and the Gulf Coast suffered a disaster of enormous proportions. Millions of pounds of water crushed the basic infrastructure of the city. A land area six times the size of Manhattan was flooded, destroying 200,000 homes and leaving most of New Orleans under water for 57 days. No American city had sustained that amount of destruction since the Civil War. But beneath the statistics lies a deeper truth: New Orleans had been in trouble well before the first levee broke, plagued with a declining population, crumbling infrastructure, ineffective government, and a failed school system. Katrina only made these existing problems worse. To Blakely, the challenge was not only to repair physical damage but also to reshape a city with a broken economy and a racially divided, socially fractured community. My Storm is a firsthand account of a critical sixteen months in the post-Katrina recovery process. It tells the story of Blakely's endeavor to transform the shell of a cherished American city into a city that could not only survive but thrive. He considers the recovery effort's successes and failures, candidly assessing the challenges at hand and the work done—admitting that he sometimes stumbled, especially in managing press relations. For Blakely, the story of the post-Katrina recovery contains lessons for all current and would-be planners and policy makers. It is, perhaps, a cautionary tale.

Jackson, Jeffrey H. PARIS UNDER WATER: HOW THE CITY OF LIGHT SURVIVED THE GREAT FLOOD OF 1910. New York: Palgrave MacMillan; 2010; ISBN: 978-0-230-61706-3. Keywords: Floods-Case Studies; Social Response; Disaster Response; Disaster Recovery Call Number: 150.J3.P3 Notes: LCCN: 2009024060 Review of book can be found in the Resource Collection under call no. 131.W4.A6 (VF) Contents: Introduction Part One: Water Rising The Surprising Rise of the Seine The River Attacks Paris Under Siege Part Two: Paris Under Water Rescuing a Drowned City Up to the Neck A City on the Brink Part Three: Water Falling The City of Mud and Filth After the Flood Making Sense of the Flood Epilogue Abstract: In the winter of 1910, the river that brought life to Paris the Seine became a force of destruction in a matter of hours. Torrential rainfall saturated the soil and faulty engineering created conditions that soon drowned Parisian streets, homes, businesses, and museums, thrusting the city into a battle with the elements. Given the Parisians’ history of deep-seated social, religious, and political strife, many citizens worried that they wouldn’t be able to collaborate to confront the crisis. Yet while the sewers, Métro, and electricity failed around them, Parisians of all backgrounds rallied to save the city and one another. Improvising techniques to keep Paris functioning and braving the dangers of collapsing infrastructure and looters, leaders and residents alike answered the call to action. In breathtaking detail, Jeffrey Jackson captures here for the first time the epic story of the great flood. As the waters rise, so does the tension, but ultimately, the Parisians’ love of their city leads them to triumph over nature against all odds.

Johnson, Cedric editor. THE NEOLIBERAL DELUGE: HURRICANE KATRINA, LATE CAPITALISM, AND THE REMAKING OF NEW ORLEANS. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press; 2011; ISBN: 978-0-8166-7325-4. Keywords: Hurricanes-Case Studies; Floods-Case Studies; Ethnic and Minority Aspects; Government; Politics; Gender; Disaster Reocvery; Mass Media Call Number: 150.J6.N4 Notes: LCCN: 2011028098 Contents: Part I: Governance From Tipping Point to Meta-crisis: Management, Media, and Hurricane Katrina "We are Seeing People We Didn't Know Exist": Katrina and the Neoliberal Erasure of Race Making Citizens in Magnaville: Katrina Refugees and Neoliberal Self-governance Part II: Urbanity Mega-events, the Superdome, and the Return of the Repressed in New Orleans Whose Choice? A Critical Race Perspective on Charter Schools Black and White, Unite and Fight? Identity Politics and New Orleans's Post-Katrina Public Housing Movement Part III: Planning Charming Accommodations: Progressive Urbanism Meets Privatization in Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation Laboratization and the "Green" Rebuilding of New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward Squandered Resources? Grounded Realities of Recovery in Post-tsunami Sri Lanka Part IV: Inequality How Shall We Remember New Orleans? Comparing News Coverage of Post-Katrina New Orleans and the 2008 Midwest Floods The Forgotten Ones: Black Women in the Wake of Katrina Hazardous Constructions: Mexican Immigrant Masculinity and the Rebuilding of New Orleans Abstract: The Neoliberal Deluge locates the root causes of the disaster of Katrina squarely in neoliberal restructuring and examines how pro-market reforms are reshaping life, politics, economy, and the built environment in New Orleans. The contributors argue that human agency and public policy choices were more at fault for the destruction and social misery experienced than were sheer forces of nature.

Miller, DeMond Shondell and Jason David Rivera (editors). COMMUNITY DISASTER RECOVERY AND RESILIENCY: EXPLORING GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIEIS AND CHALLENGES. Boca Raton, FA: CRC Press; 2011; ISBN: 978-1-4200-8822-9. Keywords: Disaster Recovery Call Number: 150.M5.C6.2 Notes: LCCN: 2010035466 Contents: Section I: Opportunities and Challenges for Building a Community-based Institutional Infrastructure Disaster Preparedness among Community-based Organizations in the City and County of San Francisco: Serving the Most Vulnerable Safe Schools for the Community: A Case and Tool for Disaster-proof Schools Opportunitiies and Challenges of Battered Women's Shelters in the Aftermath of a Disaster Section II: Opportunities and Challenges for Social and Cultural Revitalization Disaster Resilience: Exploring All Hazards and Cross-cultural Perspectives Community Resilience in New Orleans East: Deploying the Cultural Toolkit within a Vietnamese American Community Social Capital after a Disaster: A Case Study of the 2008 Flood in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Section III: Opportunities and Challenges for Economic Recovery Natural Disasters, Climate Change, and Recovery: The Sustainability Question in Post-Ivan Grenada Information Commodification and Social Capital in Local Street Markets Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Disaster Rehabilitation in Agriculture and Ecotourism: Bukit Lawang, Indonesia Section IV: Opportunities and Challenges for Public Health and Safety The Irrawaddy Crisis: Myanmar and Cyclone Nargis - Challenges and Opportunities for Change Challenges of the Worried Well in the Event of a Pandemic or Terrorist Attack

7 Aborigines' and Migrant Settlers' Crisis and Reconstruction Efforts in Two Yoruba Communities in Southwestern Nigeria An Assault on the Community's Fabric: Tragedy, Challenges, and Opportunities of School Shootings Section V: Opportunities and Challenges for Housing and Housing Policy Housing Reconstruction in Post-Mitch Nicaragua: Two Case Studies from the Communities of San Dionisio and Ocotal Building Earthquake-resilient Communities Section VI: Opportunities and Challenges for Public-Private Partnerships in the Twenty-first Century Bridging the Public-Private Partnership in Disaster Management in Bangladesh Building Disaster-Resilient Communities: The Public-Private Partnership Approach Patterns of Public-Private Partnership in Community Reconstruction: The Case of Taiwan after the Chi-Chi Earthquake Section VII: Opportunities and Challenges for Disaster Mitigation How Nations Should Develop Disaster Plans for Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery: Lessons Learned from Major International Disasters Private Resilience Responses against Collective Recovery Interests: The Case of the Mega-fires of Ilia, Greece, in August 2007 Preplanning for Recovery Preparedness for Emergency: Learning from War-caused Disaster in Israel Conclusion: From Recovery to Resilience: Long-lasting Social Change and Disaster Mitigation Abstract: In the past, societies would learn from disasters and move the location of their urban development to safer areas, allowing naturally occurring ecosystems to maintain themselves and for societies to exist symbiotically with the environment. These days, however, it seems that society no longer takes cues from the environment but rather relies on technical advancement to attempt to control and overcome the environment, sometimes with wholly unsuccessful and even catastrophic results. Emphasizing non-traditional approaches to disaster recovery and rebuilding communities, Community Disaster Recovery and Resiliency: Exploring Global Opportunities and Challenges brings together leading research from top academics and scholars on the different ways various societies have experienced disasters, learned from them, and revised their thinking about building community preparedness and resiliency pre- and post-disaster.  Provides a clear, concise, and up-to-date understanding of best practices for rebuilding community institutions and community development after a disaster  Focuses on integrated solutions for ecological restoration and community development in disaster recovery planning and implementation  Compares and contrasts community rebuilding between different nations at different stages of development, economic power, and stability  Includes case studies that illustrate best practices, integrating the concept of community and community rebuilding for local, national, and international stakeholders All chapters offer diverse community examples that form a framework for comparing best practices. They focus on integrated solutions for ecological restoration and community development and explain how communities can reduce their vulnerability to disasters and reduce recovery time following a disaster. The book indentifies the opportunities and challenges communities are most likely to face on the road to recovery and supplies the interdisciplinary, social scientific understanding required to effectively address those challenges.

Mutel, Cornelia F. editor. A WATERSHED YEAR: ANATOMY OF THE IOWA FLOODS OF 2008. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press; 2010; ISBN: 978-1-58729-854-7. Keywords: Floods-Case Studies; Mitigation; Disaster Recovery; Economics; Ecology Call Number: 150.M8.W3 Notes: LCCN: 2009024948 Contents: Section I: Rising Rivers, Spreading Waters What Causes Floods in Iowa? Why Were the 2008 Floods So Large? Iowa City and the Flood The University of Iowa and the Flood Linn County and the Flood Forecasting a Record Flood Estimating Flood Frequency Section II: Why Here, Why Now? The Hydrologic Footprint of Annual Crops The Hydrology of Urban Landscapes The Coralville Dam and Reservoir: Design and Operation The Dam and the Flood: Cause or Cure? Was Climate Change Involved? Section III: Flood Damages, Flood Costs, Flood Benefits Flood Effects on Archaeological Sites Flood Effects on Modern Communities Economic Losses from teh Floods How Did the Floods Affect Farmland? What's in Your Floodwaters? Air Quality Hazards Flood Effects on Natural Communities Section IV: Looking Back, Looking Forward When (Not If) the Big One Comes Watershed-based Flood Management Flood Barriers Managing Urban Runoff Perennial Farming Systems that Resist Flooding The Great Flood of 1993: Did We Learn Any Lessons? Abstract: In June 2008, the rivers of eastern Iowa rose above their banks to create floods of epic proportions; their amazing size flowing in places at a rate nearly double that of the previous record flood and the rapidity of their rise ruined farmlands and displaced thousands of residents and hundreds of businesses. By providing a solid base of scientific and technical information presented with unusual clarity and a wealth of supporting illustrations, the contributors to this far-reaching book, many of whom dealt firsthand with the 2008 floods, provide a detailed roadmap of the causes and effects of future devastating floods. While the book draws most of its examples from one particular region, it explains flooding throughout a much larger region the Midwestern Corn Belt and thus its sobering yet energizing lessons apply well beyond eastern Iowa. By examining the relationships among rivers, floodplains, weather, and modern society; by stressing matters of science and fact rather than social or policy issues; and by addressing multiple environmental problems and benefits, the twenty-five essays in A Watershed Year inform and educate all those who experienced the 2008 floods and all those concerned with the larger causes of flooding.

Olshansky, Robert B. and Laurie A. Johnson. CLEAR AS MUD: PLANNING FOR THE REBUILDING OF NEW ORLEANS. Chicago: American Planning Association, Planners Press; 2010; ISBN: 978- 1-932364-80-4. Keywords: Hurricanes-Case Studies; Floods-Case Studies; Disaster Recovery; Reconstruction; Government Call Number: 150.O4.C5 Notes: LCCN: 2009941508 Contents: The Hurricane Katrina Catastrophe Order from Chaos: Planning at the State and Federal Levels Planning for New Orleans: October 2005-March 2006 Return to Chaos: Spring 2006

9 The New Orleans Neighborhoods Rebuilding Plan The Unified New Orleans Plan Passing the Planning Baton Conclusions Abstract: Planning the rebuilding of New Orleans has been among the greatest urban planning challenges of our time. As witnesses and participants, Olshansky and Johnson bring unparalleled detail and insight to the seemingly incomprehensible. New Orleans had to rebuild its structures and institutions, but it also had to create an equitable and effective community planning structure while addressing the concerns of state, federal, nonprofit, and private-sector stakeholders. In documenting this unprecedented process, the authors spent years in New Orleans, interviewing leaders and citizens and abetting the design and execution of the Unified New Orleans Plan. Their insights will help cities worldwide face the challenges of rebuilding and recovering after disaster strikes.

Solnit, Rebecca. A PARADISE BUILT IN HELL: THE EXTRAORDINARY COMMUNITIES THAT ARISE IN DISASTER. New York: Viking; 2009; ISBN: 978-0-670-02107-9. Keywords: Earthquake-Case Studies; Explosion; Historical Account; Terrorism; Hurricanes-Case Studies; Floods-Case Studies; Social Factors; Disaster Response; Disaster Recovery Call Number: 150.S6.P3 Notes: LCCN: 2009004101 Contents: Prelude: Falling Together I: A Millennial Good Fellowship: The San Francisco Earthquake The Mizpah Cafe Pauline Jacobson's Joy General Funston's Fear William James's Moral Equivalents Dorothy Day's Other Loves II: Halifax to Hollywood: The Great Debate A Tale of Two Princes: The Halifax Explosion and After From the Blitz and the Bomb to Vietnam Hobbes in Hollywood, or the Few Versus the Many III: Carnival and Revolution: Mexico City's Earthquake Power from Below Losing the Mandate of Heaven Standing on Top of Golden Hours IV: The City Transfigured: New York in Grief and Glory Mutual Aid in the Marketplace The Need to Help Nine Hundred and Eleven Questions V: New Orleans: Common Grounds and Killers What Difference Would it Make? Murderers Love and Lifeboats Beloved Community Epilogue: The Doorway in the Ruins Abstract: What most people believe and what actually happens in the aftermath of a disaster are two different things. The movies, the media, and the authorities have too often insisted that we are a chaotic, selfish species and ought to fear each other. Yet in the wake of almost every major disaster a wave of altruistic and brave improvisation saves lives, forms communities, and shapes many survivors’ experiences. The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit in her new book, A Paradise Built in Hell, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides. These spontaneous acts, emotions, and communities suggest that many of the utopian ideals of the past century are not only possible, but latent in everyday life. A disaster can be a moment when the forces that keep these ideals from flowering, those desires from being realized, fall away. Solnit’s book points to a new vision of what society could become one that is less authoritarian and fearful, more collaborative and local. A Paradise Built in Hell travels through five major North American disasters, from the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco and the 1917 explosion that tore up Halifax, Nova Scotia, to the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, New York’s 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and reveals little-known but well-documented patterns of institutional failure, destructive beliefs, and extraordinary human achievement. In passing, the book also visits the London Blitz, Argentina’s 2001 economic upheaval, Nicaragua’s politically profound 1972 earthquake, other forms of social disruption from carnivals to revolutions and Hollywood’s comically problematic take on disaster and heroism. Solnit has won acclaim for her ability to consistently locate unseen patterns and meanings in broad cultural histories, from her history of walking to her exploration of the world made by nineteenth- century technologies. This new book investigates the moments of joy, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster’s grief and disruption and considers their implications for everyday life and for the coming era of increasingly common and intense calamity, natural, seminatural, and man-made.

Woods, Clyde editor. IN THE WAKE OF HURRICANE KATRINA: NEW PARADIGMS AND SOCIAL VISIONS. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press; 2010; ISBN: 978-0-8018-9561-6. Keywords: Hurricanes-Case Studies; Floods-Case Studies; Ethnic and Minority Aspects; Economics; Gender; Disaster Response; Politics; Social Factors; Social Response Call Number: 150.W6.I5 Notes: LCCN: 2009938125 Contents: Introduction: Katrina's World: Blues, Bourbon, and the Return ot the Source Histories of Race, Gender, Sex, and Class "More Desultory and Unconnected Than Any Other": Geography, Desire, and Freedom in Eliza Potter's A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life "Justice Mocked": Violence and Accountability in New Orleans Activists and Institutions Beyond Disaster Exceptionalism: Social Movement Developments in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina Stories at the Center: Story Circles, Educational Organizing, and Fate of Neighborhood Public Schools in New Orleans Of Armed Guards and Kente Cloth: Afro-Creole Catholics and the Battle for St. Augustine Parish in Post-Katrina New Orleans The Politics of Reproductive Violence Culture, Music, and Performance Jazz and Revival Second Lining Post-Katrina: Learning Community from the Prince of Wales Social Aid and Pleasure Club Upholding Community Traditions On Conjuring Mahalia: Mahalia Jackson, New Orleans, and the Sanctified Swing "My FEMA People": Hip-Hop as Disaster Recovery in the Katrina Diaspora "We Know This Place": Neoliberal Racial Regimes and the Katrina Circumstance We Know This Place Tourism Industrial Complex Katrina Tourism and a Tale of Two Cities: Visualizing Race and Class in New Orleans "Roots Run Deep Here": The Construction of Black New Orleans in Post-Katrina Tourism Narratives Geographies of Disaster Les Misérables of New Orleans: Trap Economics and the Asset Stripping Blues, Part 1 Freedom Land After Katrina: Racial Regimes and Human Development Barriers in the Gulf Coast Region

11 Refugee Bodily Orbits Abstract: Assessing the damage left by Hurricane Katrina in social, cultural, and physical terms, the essays in this volume suggest that the nation's long and historic engagement with the Gulf Coast has entered a new era. While many of the essays analyze Katrina in terms of the relatively recent past, others explore how reaction to the hurricane's aftermath is rooted in the region's history. Uniquely combining humanities and social sciences research, the contributors reevaluate the political, social, and economic dynamics that existed before this "natural" disaster and the subsequent responses and actions, or lack thereof. Investigations of public policies, organizations, social movements, and neoliberalism range from a traditional policy case study of the often-neglected Alabama and Mississippi experience to an analysis of urban social movements in New Orleans to a broad critique of local policy that has global implications. Innovative young scholars provide essays on music, literature, tourism, and gender. Interviews with key community leaders and historic poets round out the volume. The many social, political, racial, economic, and personal disasters that followed Katrina produced a number of intellectual dilemmas. How could this happen in the wealthiest nation in the world? How could the U.S. government so callously abandon its citizens when they so desperately needed federal aid? Why was the most powerful military in the world unable or unwilling to act? Readers will find in this collection compelling answers to these, and other, complicated questions.

JOURNAL OF DISASTER RESEARCH - SPECIAL ISSUE ON "BUILDING LOCAL CAPACITY FOR LONG-TERM DISASTER RESILIENCE, PART 2". Tokyo, Japan : Fuji Technology Press Ltd. Vol. 5, 2010. Keywords: Disaster Recovery; Economics; Risk Analysis; Floods-General; Mitigation; Law/ Legislation; Earthquake-Case Studies; Tsunamis-Case Studies; Architecture Call Number: 152.J6.6 Notes: Contents: Toward an Enhanced Concept of Disaster Resilience: A Commentary on Behalf of the Editorial Committee How Business Flow Diagram's [sic] Improve Continuity of Operations Planning Building Disaster Resilient Organizations in the Non-government (NGO) Sector Urban Technological Risk Characterization and Management: Towards a Better Understanding of Non-natural Threats in Merida City, Venezuela Seismic Regulations Versus Modern Architectural and Urban Configurations An Assessment of Coastal Zone Hazard Mitigation Plans in Texas California's Natural Hazard Zonation Policies for Land-use Planning and Development Strategic Disaster Reduction Planning with Government Stakeholder Collaboration - a Case Study in Nara and Kyoto, Japan Post-disaster Redevelopment Planning: Local Capacity Buidling Through Pre-event Planning Working Together, Building Capacity - a Case Study of Civil Defence Eemrgency Management in New Zealand Chile's 2010 M8.8 Earthquake and Tsunami: Initial Observations on Resilience Requirements and Verification Methodology for the Design Performance of Tsunami-Hinan Buildings (Temporary Tsunami Refuge Building) Evacuation Facility Selection Situations in Whole-building Evacuation, Actually Implemented in a Super-high-rise Building - Results of Questionnaire Survey with Evacuees

Masozera, Michel; Melissa Bailey, and Charles Kerchner. DISTRIBUTION OF IMPACTS OF NATURAL DISASTERS ACROSS INCOME GROUPS: A CASE STUDY OF NEW ORLEANS. Ecological Economics. 2007; 63:299-306. ISSN: 0921-8009. Keywords: Natural Disasters; Economics; Hurricanes-Case Studies Call Number: 152.M3.D5.4 (VF) Abstract: This paper explores elements of vulnerability to natural disasters in the context of Hurricane Katrina. We examine whether neighborhoods in New Orleans were impacted differently by Hurricane Katrina based on pre-existing social, physical and economic vulnerabilities. We evaluate the degree to which the initial impacts of Hurricane Katrina were distributed among the New Orleans' residents. Geographic Information System (GIS) technology was used to perform analyses using household income, housing values, and elevation and flood levels. Next, we investigate whether particular socio-economic groups in the city were more vulnerable during the response and recovery phases. Findings indicate that Hurricane Katrina caused severe flood damages in the majority of New Orleans neighborhoods, regardless of income, elevation and other social factors. However, findings do suggest that pre-existing socio-economic conditions play a significant role in the ability for particular economic classes to respond immediately to the disaster and to cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The paper concludes with policy recommendations to reduce social and economic vulnerabilities to natural disasters, as well as suggestions for future research.

Czerwinski, Stanley J., Director. OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL COORDINATOR FOR GULF COAST REBUILDING: PERSPECTIVES AND OBSERVATIONS [Web Page]. 2009 Apr 10; Accessed 2009 Apr 21. Available at: www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-09-411R. Keywords: Hurricanes-Case Studies; Floods-Case Studies; Disaster Recovery; Government Call Number: 154.C8.O3 (VF) Abstract: In November 2005, the President issued an executive order establishing the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding (OFC) with the broad mission of supporting recovery efforts following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Given their vast size and impact, these storms presented unprecedented rebuilding challenges to federal, state, and local officials which, combined with concerns about the lack of coordination in government’s initial response to the disaster, precipitated the creation of the Office of the Federal Coordinator.1 To assist in your ongoing oversight responsibilities of the recovery of the Gulf Coast, you asked us to: (1) describe the functions the Coordinator has performed, (2) obtain stakeholder perspectives regarding the office’s operation, and (3) provide observations on issues to be considered for moving forward. We provided your staff with summaries of our findings this past February to answer these questions as well as our observations, including extending the term of OFC. We have since updated some of the information in our briefing (see enclosure I), using information that has subsequently become available including the President’s decision to extend the operations of OFC through September 30, 2009. This letter transmits those updated slides. To conduct our work, we obtained and reviewed key documents from the Office of the Federal Coordinator and conducted interviews with senior officials. In addition, we interviewed officials from other federal agencies with significant roles in the recovery effort, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. To learn about the experiences and opinions of state, local, and nongovernmental officials regarding the office, we interviewed senior representatives from the Louisiana Recovery Authority, the Louisiana Recovery School District, the Mississippi Governor’s Office of Recovery and Renewal, the City of New Orleans Office of Recovery Management, and Catholic Charities-Archdiocese New Orleans. Finally, to provide context and criteria for our review, we examined previous work by GAO and the relevant disaster recovery and organizational management literature. We conducted this performance audit from February 2009 through March 2009 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain sufficient, appropriate evidence to provide a reasonable basis for our findings and conclusions based on our audit objectives. We believe that the evidence obtained provides a reasonable basis for our findings and conclusions based on our audit objectives.

NEW ORLEANS FIVE YEARS AFTER THE STORM: A NEW DISASTER AMID RECOVERY. 2010 Aug. Keywords: Hurricanes-Case Studies; Floods-Case Studies; Disaster Recovery; Ethnic and Minority Aspects; Medical Call Number: 154.N4.3 Notes: Produced by the Kaiser Family Foundation (Publication No. 8089) Contents: Introduction A Portrait of New Orleans Residents in 2010 The Recovery

13 Report Card on Specifics of Progress Race in Orleans Parish Health Care in Orleans Parish Conclusion Abstract: We began this series of three major surveys of Orleans Parish residents in 2006, one year after Hurricane Katrina pounded the city and water breached its overburdened levees, leaving 80 percent of the city underwater. In this third installment we spoke to parish residents during a new, unfolding economic and environmental disaster: an oil spill of unprecedented size in the Gulf waters off the Louisiana coast whose long term effects are at present incalculable even as its short term effects manifest in the form of dark, sticky oil washing up on the area’s shores. This third chapter of our survey series is intended to provide perspective at the five year anniversary of Katrina’s deadly arrival: How do residents feel now that the storm and flooding are five years behind them? How satisfied are they with the rebuilding process and what challenges and concerns animate them, both Katrina-related and otherwise? What does this new Gulf Coast disaster mean to them thus far? Like all surveys, our 2010 data is a snapshot of a point in time, a point before the horrendously leaking oil well was permanently capped, a point before the full extent of the disaster could be accurately assessed, a point representing the early months of a newly elected mayor’s tenure. But as a snapshot, and building on what we learned about the views and real-life experiences of residents in 2008 and 2006, it proves helpful in understanding New Orleans’ continuing journey of recovery. The report below provides an unusually thorough look at how residents view the rebuilding process, the extent to which they see New Orleans as having healed from Katrina, and the extent to which they expect to be impacted by the Gulf Coast oil spill. It also assesses residents’ feelings about hot topics such as health care, jobs, crime and political corruption and catalogues the extent to which they are facing challenges paying bills, finding and keeping good jobs, and getting needed medical services in this difficult economy. Finally, the survey allows us to paint a picture of a city which remains divided by race and income, even as race relations seem to be on a positive trajectory.

Shenot, Christine. LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROFESSIONALS TEAM UP ON DISASTER RECOVERY. ICMA Press. 2007 Apr; 89(3). Keywords: Hurricanes-Case Studies; Floods-Case Studies; Disaster Recovery; Government Call Number: 154.S4.L6 (VF) Notes: "For many Americans, the horrors of Hurricane Katrina have been forever distilled in the frightening media images that came out of New Orleans. The chaos that consumed the Big Easy played out in countless scenes of desperate evacuees packed into the Louisiana Superdome and the city's convention center. We saw people waving for help from rooftops where they waited to be rescued and residents traveling flooded neighborhoods in small boats, picking up stranded people including seniors, children, and the disabled."

Cohn, Timothy A.; Kathleen K. Gohn, and William H. Hooke (eds.). LESSONS FROM PPP2000: LIVING WITH EARTH'S EXTREMES. Tampa, FL: Institute for Business and Home Safety; 2001. Keywords: Natural Hazards, Insurance, Disaster Recovery, Industry, Public Works, Risk Analysis, Physical Health, Military, Economics, Warning Systems Call Number: 159.C6.L4 Notes: Table of Contents 1) Insurance Sector 2) Managing Catastrophic Risks 3) Mega Cities 4) Earthquakes 5) A Global Perspective 6) Disaster Recovery Business Alliances 7) Real-Time Hazards Monitoring 8) Floods 9) Critical Infrastructure 10) Motivating People 11) Challenges for the Next Century 12) Public Health 13) The Military 14) Combined Disasters 15) Conclusions

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