Category Archives: New Orleans

Watermark: can southern Louisiana be saved

Elizabeth Kolbert, a writer for the New Yorker, who also wrote a series of articles – Climate of Man – about climate change. Wrote a fairly grim article Watermark: can southern Louisiana be saved, in the Feb 27, 2006 New … Continue reading

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Recovering New Orleans: the Resilient City

Thomas J. Campanella, the co-editor The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover From Disaster (Oxford University Press, 2005), a professor of urban design and city planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a visiting lecturer at … Continue reading

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New Orleans and the ecology of the Mississippi River

Richard Sparks writes about the ecological/geological context in which New Orleans exists, how people have changed them, and what rebuilders should consider. His article is Rethinking, Then Rebuilding New Orleans, in the Winter 2006 Issues in Science and Technology. His … Continue reading

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New Orleans & Disaster Sociology

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article by David Glennn on Sociology and Hurricane Katrina Disaster Sociologists Study What Went Wrong in the Response to the Hurricanes, but Will Policy Makers Listen? The article discusses what disaster sociology has … Continue reading

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New New Orleans Pt 2 – Issues, Leverage Points, Scenarios

On Sept 2 I posted about an article Dreaming a New New Orleans. In another post on WorldChanging Alan AtKisson follows up in A New New Orleans – Issues, Leverage Points, Scenarios From A New New Orleans – Issues, Leverage … Continue reading

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Dreaming a New New Orleans

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