Creating Katrina, Rebuilding Resilience : Lessons from New Orleans on Vulnerability and Resiliency
Language: English
Published by Butterworth-Heinemann, 2017
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- Title
- Creating Katrina, Rebuilding Resilience : Lessons from New Orleans on Vulnerability and Resiliency
- Author
- Zakour, Michael J. (EDT); Mock, Nancy B. (EDT); Kadetz, Paul (EDT)
- Publisher
- Butterworth-Heinemann
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0128095571
- ISBN 13
- 9780128095577
Creating Katrina, Rebuilding Resilience: Lessons from New Orleans on Vulnerability and Resiliency presents a unique, integrative understanding of Hurricane Katrina in the New Orleans area, and the progression to disaster vulnerability as well as resilience pathways. The book integrates the understanding of vulnerability and resiliency by examining the relationships among these two concepts and theories.
The disaster knowledge of diverse disciplines and professions is brought together in this book, with authors from social work, public health, community organizing, sociology, political science, public administration, psychology, anthropology, geography and the study of religion. The editors offer both expert and an insider perspectives on Katrina because they have lived in New Orleans and experienced Katrina and the recovery. An improved understanding of the recovery and reconstruction phases of disaster is also presented, and these disaster stages have been the least examined in the disaster and emergency management literature.
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About the Author
Dr. Nancy Mock has over 30 years of experience in the Humanitarian, Food Security and Public Health fields. She is a co-founding member of the Tulane Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy, an Associate Professor in International Health and International Development as well as past Interim Executive Director for the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women at Tulane University.
Dr. Mock was Associate Director of the Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (Latin American and Caribbean), a program funded through the Office of Naval Research to provide technical support to the United States Southern Command in the area of disaster preparedness and response. Dr. Mock co-led the development of INTERHANDS, a major training initiative, and provided mission support and lessons learned analysis. Additionally, as part of a separate USAID project, Dr. Mock co-directed the Complex Emergency Response and Transition Initiative (CERTI), a crisis coordination project that aims to prevent and mitigate conflict, improve timely and appropriate response, and offers support to populations affected by conflict in transition. She was a chief architect of the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Famine Early Warning Systems Project (now FEWSNET) and serves on numerous advisory boards concerned with food security.
Other professional achievements include serving as a member of the Advisory Council for the World Vision Hurricane Relief Assistance Program and also as a member of the 2006 US Centers for Disease Control Expert Panel on Rapid Needs Assessment, Post-Disaster. She has also served as a technical advisor and course developer for international NGOs and other academic institutions in the area of public health in emergency settings. Dr. Mock continues to oversee the development and management of international projects valued at over $4.5 million dollars annually. She has been Principal and Co-Principal Investigator for multiple international programs and is currently involved in the development of a school of Public Health in Rwanda.
Paul Kadetz holds the Robert Fisher Oxnam Chair of Science and Society at Drew University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at The University of Liverpool in China and an Associate and Lecturer of the China Centre for Health and Humanity, University College London. Paul has conducted research concerning: Post-disaster recovery, global health policy, the anthropology of safety, health care integration, the impact of foreign aid on healthcare systems and healthcare challenges in China, The Philippines, Cuba, Guatemala, and Madagascar. Over 40 of his research papers, book chapters and technical reports have been published. His co-edited volume, The Handbook of Welfare in China, was recently published by Edward Elgar.
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