Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina write by Robert D. Bullard. This book was released on 2018-04-17. Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving death and destruction across the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf Coast counties. The lethargic and inept emergency response that followed exposed institutional flaws, poor planning, and false assumptions that are built into the emergency response and homeland security plans and programs. Questions linger: What went wrong? Can it happen again? Is our government equipped to plan for, mitigate, respond to, and recover from natural and manmade disasters? Can the public trust government response to be fair? Does race matter? Racial disparities exist in disaster response, cleanup, rebuilding, reconstruction, and recovery. Race plays out in natural disaster survivors' ability to rebuild, replace infrastructure, obtain loans, and locate temporary and permanent housing. Generally, low-income and people of color disaster victims spend more time in temporary housing, shelters, trailers, mobile homes, and hotels - and are more vulnerable to permanent displacement. Some 'temporary' homes have not proved to be that temporary. In exploring the geography of vulnerability, this book asks why some communities get left behind economically, spatially, and physically before and after disasters strike.
Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina
Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina write by Robert D. Bullard. This book was released on 2010-06. Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving death and destruction across the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama Gulf Coast counties. The lethargic and inept emergency response that followed exposed institutional flaws, poor planning, and false assumptions that are built into the emergency response and homeland security plans and programs. Questions linger: What went wrong? Can it happen again? Is our government equipped to plan for, mitigate, respond to, and recover from natural and manmade disasters? Can the public trust government response to be fair? Does race matter? Racial disparities exist in disaster response, cleanup, rebuilding, reconstruction, and recovery. Race plays out in natural disaster survivors' ability to rebuild, replace infrastructure, obtain loans, and locate temporary and permanent housing. Generally, low-income and people of color disaster victims spend more time in temporary housing, shelters, trailers, mobile homes, and hotels - and are more vulnerable to permanent displacement. Some ''temporary'' homes have not proved to be that temporary. In exploring the geography of vulnerability, this book asks why some communities get left behind economically, spatially, and physically before and after disasters strike.
The Wrong Complexion for Protection
The Wrong Complexion for Protection - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wrong Complexion for Protection write by Robert D. Bullard. This book was released on 2012-07-23. The Wrong Complexion for Protection available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Uncovers the ways the United States government responds to natural and human-induced disasters in relation to race over the past eight decades When the images of desperate, hungry, thirsty, sick, mostly black people circulated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it became apparent to the whole country that race did indeed matter when it came to government assistance. In The Wrong Complexion for Protection, Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright place the government response to natural and human-induced disasters in historical context over the past eight decades. They compare and contrast how the government responded to emergencies, including environmental and public health emergencies, toxic contamination, industrial accidents, bioterrorism threats and show that African Americans are disproportionately affected. Bullard and Wright argue that uncovering and eliminating disparate disaster response can mean the difference between life and death for those most vulnerable in disastrous times.
Growing Smarter
Growing Smarter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Growing Smarter write by Robert D. Bullard. This book was released on 2007-01-12. Growing Smarter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The smart growth movement aims to combat urban and suburban sprawl by promoting livable communities based on pedestrian scale, diverse populations, and mixed land use. But, as this book documents, smart growth has largely failed to address issues of social equity and environmental justice. Smart growth sometimes results in gentrification and displacement of low- and moderate-income families in existing neighborhoods, or transportation policies that isolate low-income populations. Growing Smarter is one of the few books to view smart growth from an environmental justice perspective, examining the effect of the built environment on access to economic opportunity and quality of life in American cities and metropolitan regions. The contributors to Growing Smarter—urban planners, sociologists, economists, educators, lawyers, health professionals, and environmentalists—all place equity at the center of their analyses of "place, space, and race." They consider such topics as the social and environmental effects of sprawl, the relationship between sprawl and concentrated poverty, and community-based regionalism that can link cities and suburbs. They examine specific cases that illustrate opportunities for integrating environmental justice concerns into smart growth efforts, including the dynamics of sprawl in a South Carolina county, the debate over the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and transportation-related pollution in Northern Manhattan. Growing Smarter illuminates the growing racial and class divisions in metropolitan areas today—and suggests workable strategies to address them.
Uneasy Alchemy
Uneasy Alchemy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Uneasy Alchemy write by Barbara L. Allen. This book was released on 2003. Uneasy Alchemy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How coalitions of citizens and experts have been effective in promoting environmental justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor.
