Cities and disasters. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Davia Cox Downey.
• Editors: Downey, Davia C (Davia Cox)
• Contents: MARGINALIZATION AND RECOVERY; ; Enhancing Community and Economic Development Postdisaster through the Increased Resilience of Women; Bridgette Cram and Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor; ; Nonprofits and Disasters; Grace L. Chikoto ; ; Country Mouse, City Mouse: Exploring the Differences in Rural and Urban Economic Recovery Postdisaster; Davia Cox Downey; ; TRANSPORTATION CONSIDERATIONS; ; Improving the City Resistance in War: Planning the Major Transportation Terminals Based on Passive Defense Considerations; Amir Shakibamanesh and Mahshid Ghorbanian; ; Return to a State of Nature, Compassionate Conservatism, Failed Response, and Its Impact on Race, Ethnicity, and the U.S. Economy: Hurricane Katrina Case Study; Antoinette S. Christophe and Michael O. Adams; ; RESILIENCE, COOPERATION, AND CITIZEN ATTITUDES; ; The Big Spill: Who Was to Blame and How Should Government Respond? Citizen Attitudes in the Aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon Spill in Coastal Alabama; Michael Howell-Moroney and Kent R. Kerley; ; How Government’s Actions after a Disaster Affect Long-Term Civic Engagement: Shifting Opportunity and Motivation for Civic Participation in Christchurch, New Zealand; Stephanie Hawke, Jillian Girard, and Jane Carr; ; Managing for Resilience across Multiple Scales of Action in Joplin, Missouri; Clayton Wukich, David E.A. Johnson, and Michael D. Siciliano; ; Vulnerabilities Magnified: A Closer Look at Disasters and Displacement; Ann-Margaret Esnard and Alka Sapat; ; PLANNING AND PATH DEPENDENCE; ; The Historical Aspect of Social Vulnerability in the Lower Ninth Ward; Nada Toueir; ; Building Back Tremé: Using PPGIS to Evaluate Neighborhood Stability; Michelle M. Thompson, Brittany N. Arceneaux, and Grace E. Major; ; Clustered and Community-Driven Housing Recovery: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina to the Great East Japan Earthquake; Tamiyo Kondo
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 363.348; Emergency management; Cities and towns
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482247411
• Related ISBNs: 9781482247404
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