Resiliency of New Orleans Following Hurricane Katrina: A Study of Communities Three Years After the Storm

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina and subsequent levee failures produced widespread flooding in New Orleans, Louisiana and forced the evacuation of most of the local population. This event allowed for the study of the communitys resilience, or the ability of a system to absorb changes or perturbations and...

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Main Author: DeFrank, Lauren Marie
Other Authors: Lam, Nina
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2009
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-06262009-105556/