Dynamics of Disaster : Lessons on Risk, Response and Recovery (Paperback)

Acknowledgements.  Contributors.  Foreword.  Introduction  Part 1: Environmental, Cultural and Political Concerns  1. Katrina's Contamination: Regulatory Knowledge Gaps in the Making and Unmaking of Environmental Contention  2. Organizational Culture and the Katrina Response in Louisiana  3. Hurricane Katrina as a System Accident  4. Conceptualizing Katrina Reconstructively  Part 2: Relocation, Rebuilding and Recovery Concerns  5. Mind Maps, Memory and Relocation after Hurricane Katrina  6. Post-Katrina Neighbourhood Recovery Planning in New Orleans  7. Rebuilding the Historic Treme Neighbourhood: Lessons in the Repatriation of New Orleans  Part 3: International Disasters and Katrina Comparisons  8. The 2002 Flood Disaster in the Elbe Region, Germany: A Lack of Context-Sensitive Knowledge  9. Social Dynamics of Unnatural Disasters: Parallels between Hurricane Katrina and the 2003 European Heat Wave  10. After Disasters: Emergences of National In-Security in Sri Lanka  11. Response and Recovery in the Remediation of Contaminated Land in Eastern Germany.  Conclusion