1st Edition

Cities and Disasters

Edited By Davia Cox Downey Copyright 2016
332 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

331 Pages
by Routledge

331 Pages
by Routledge

Cities and Disasters presents interdisciplinary and multinational perspectives on emergency management policy, economic development, and the various factors that affect the recovery process after natural disasters strike urban areas. The book has three central themes: policy, urbanity, and the interplay of events after disasters that affect the process of a community’s return to normalcy. It... Read more

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

Biography

Davia Cox Downey

"This is an excellent book that provides several perspectives on and insights into a growing field of study." - W. J. Sproule, Michigan Technological University