The story of Katrina: New Orleans and the political economy of catastrophe
By Roger D. Congleton. 2006
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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science
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- Government Decentralization as a Disincentive for Transnational Terror? An Empirical Analysis (2009, unknown): “According to the analysis in Bjørnskov, Dreher and Fischer (2008), decentralization increases individuals’ subjective wellbeing.3 Arguably, one channel by which decentralization can increase well-being might be its impact on terrorism: it has been shown in Frey, Luechinger and Stutzer (2007) that te”
- Adaptive capacity and learning to learn as leverage for social–ecological resilience (2007, background): “…past decisions and actions that, on the surface, appeared to provide solutions, as in the case of levee construction on the Mississippi delta in the 18th and 19th centuries (Congleton 2006) and as in many other maladaptations in the relationship between humans and their environment (Boyden 1987).”
- Coupled Human and Natural Systems (2007, background): “region that was responsible for more than 1200 deaths and estimated damages of more than $200 thousand million (41) and the 1998 flood in China that killed at least 2000 people and affected more than 240 million are just two recent examples (42).”
- How do banks react to catastrophic events? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina (2019, unknown): “Estimated property damages from Hurricane Katrina alone range from approximately $100 billion (National Hurricane Center, 2005; Hazards & Vulnerability Research Institute, 2014), $125 billion to $150 billion (Congressional Research Service, 2013), and up to over $200 billion (Congleton, 2006).”