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Cost, Schedule, and Performance Problems of the Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity, Louisiana, Hurricane Protection Project
Author : United States Accounting Office (GAO)
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 13,69 MB
Release : 2018-06-19
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ISBN : 9781721532070
Cost, Schedule, and Performance Problems of the Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity, Louisiana, Hurricane Protection Project
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 33,98 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Flood control
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Author : U S Government Accountability Office (G
Publisher : BiblioGov
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 40,64 MB
Release : 2013-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781289040871
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.
Author : Anu K. Mittal
Publisher :
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Flood control
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Water Resources
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Page : 166 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Hurricane protection
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Author : Robert R. N. Ross
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 2008-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1556352247
Two and a half years after the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, New Orleans and south Louisiana continue to struggle in an unsettled gumbo of environmental, social, and rebuilding chaos. Citizens await the fruition of four successive recovery and reconstruction planning processes and the realization of essential infrastructure repairs. Repopulation in Orleans Parish has slowed considerably; the parish remains at best two-thirds of its former size; thousands of former residents who wish to return face barriers of many kinds. Heroic efforts at rebuilding have occurred through the efforts of individual neighborhood associations and voluntary associations who have attempted to address serious losses in affordable housing and health care services. Walking to New Orleans traces how a dominant but paradoxical model of the relation between the human and natural worlds in Western culture has informed many environmental and engineering dilemmas and has contributed to the history of social inequities and injustice that anteceded the disasters of the hurricanes and subsequent flooding. It proposes a model for collaborative recovery that links principles of ethics and engineering, in which citizens become active, ongoing participants in the process of the reconstruction and redesign of their unique locus of habitation. Equally important, it gives voice to the citizens and associations who are desperately working to rebuild their homes and lives both in urban New Orleans and in the villages of coastal Louisiana.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
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Page : 140 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Disaster relief
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Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. New Orleans District
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Page : pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Environmental impact statements
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Author : Ted Steinberg
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 20,58 MB
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0807167118
Hurricanes, floods, oil spills, disease, and disappearing wetlands are some of the many environmental disasters that impact the Gulf South. The contributors to Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South explore the threat, frequency, and management of this region’s disasters from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Scholars from the fields of history, sociology, and anthropology examine the underlying causes of vulnerability to natural hazards in the coastal states while also suggesting ways to increase resilience. Greg O’Brien considers the New Orleans flood of 1849; Andy Horowitz, the Galveston storm of 1900; and Christopher M. Church, the 1928 hurricane in Florida and the Caribbean. Urmi Engineer Willoughby delves into the turn-of-the-century yellow fever outbreaks in New Orleans and local attempts to eradicate them, while Abraham H. Gibson and Cindy Ermus discuss the human introduction of invasive species and their long-term impact on the region’s ecosystem. Roberto E. Barrios looks at political-ecological susceptibility in New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward, and Kevin Fox Gotham treats storm- and flood-defense infrastructures. In his afterword, Ted Steinberg ponders what the future holds when the capitalist state supports an unwinnable battle between land developers and nature. These case studies offer new ways of understanding humans’ interactions with the unique, and at times unforgiving, environment of the Gulf South. These lessons are particularly important as we cope with the effects of climate change and seek to build resilience and reduce vulnerability through enhanced awareness, adequate preparation, and efficient planning.