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New Orleans Struggles with Hurricane Recovery
Hurricane Katrina flooded eighty per cent of New Orleans.. Recovery efforts are ongoing, in a somewhat disjointed, and questionable fashion. Levee systems will afford only 100-year-storm protection, not enough to withstand a direct strike from another Katrina-like storm. Meanwhile, nonstructural hazard-mitigation measures lag behind. Revised Federal Emergency Management Agency elevation requirements, within the levee system, are inadequate to protect against another Katrinalike inundation. Efforts to employ land use planning to reduce population densities in some of the city's more hazardous areas have largely been abandoned. Economic forces have kept some neighborhoods from being significantly rebuilt Some ambitious efforts to restore natural buffers close to the city are underway. Their efficacy remains questionable. Eighty per-cent of the pre-storm population have returned to New Orleans. The city appears to be returning to its indomitable "Big Easy" attitude. Coastal restoration and improved building codes will be needed for the city to be truly resilient.
New Orleans Struggles with Hurricane Recovery
Hurricane Katrina flooded eighty per cent of New Orleans.. Recovery efforts are ongoing, in a somewhat disjointed, and questionable fashion. Levee systems will afford only 100-year-storm protection, not enough to withstand a direct strike from another Katrina-like storm. Meanwhile, nonstructural hazard-mitigation measures lag behind. Revised Federal Emergency Management Agency elevation requirements, within the levee system, are inadequate to protect against another Katrinalike inundation. Efforts to employ land use planning to reduce population densities in some of the city's more hazardous areas have largely been abandoned. Economic forces have kept some neighborhoods from being significantly rebuilt Some ambitious efforts to restore natural buffers close to the city are underway. Their efficacy remains questionable. Eighty per-cent of the pre-storm population have returned to New Orleans. The city appears to be returning to its indomitable "Big Easy" attitude. Coastal restoration and improved building codes will be needed for the city to be truly resilient.
New Orleans Struggles with Hurricane Recovery
Wilkins, James G. (author) / Davis, Donald W. (author)
Solutions to Coastal Disasters Conference 2011 ; 2011 ; Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2011 ; 912-923
2011-06-21
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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