Hurricane Katrina and the Forgotten Coast of Mississippi

An interdisciplinary volume on impacts of and recovery from Hurricane Katrina in southern Mississippi, for natural hazard researchers, students and policy makers.

Susan L. Cutter (Author), Christopher T. Emrich (Author), Jerry T. Mitchell (Author), Walter W. Piegorsch (Author), Mark M. Smith (Author), Lynn Weber (Author)

9781108446532, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 March 2018

220 pages, 39 b/w illus. 12 colour illus. 14 maps 18 tables
25.5 x 17.8 x 1.3 cm, 0.45 kg

'… this book is a thoroughly researched, impressively analyzed, and well-delivered masterpiece. It will certainly set a standard for how scholars treat similar natural disasters in the future.' The Journal of Southern History

Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast in August 2005 with devastating consequences. Almost all analyses of the disaster have been dedicated to the way the hurricane affected New Orleans. This volume examines the impact of Katrina on southern Mississippi. While communities along Mississippi's Gulf Coast shared the impact, their socioeconomic and demographic compositions varied widely, leading to different types and rates of recovery. This volume furthers our understanding of the pace of recovery and its geographic extent, and explores the role of inequalities in the recovery process and those antecedent conditions that could give rise to a 'recovery divide'. It will be especially appealing to researchers and advanced students of natural disasters and policy makers dealing with disaster consequences and recovery.

1. The forgotten coast
2. Remembering the coast: the road to Camille
3. The second big one
4. Uneven recovery
5. Powering an unequal recovery
6. Slow going for neighborhoods
7. Waiting for the next Katrina
8. Recovery divides in a changing world
9. Epilogue.

Subject Areas: The environment [RN], Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning [R]