Additional Research Resources on Hurricane Katrina/Rita and the Gulf Coast

The following fact sheets and resources provide comprehensive information about the impacts of Katrina/Rita and the status of Gulf Coast redevelopment activities and support for displaced persons.

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In the Wake of the Storm: Environment, Disaster, and Race After Katrina, a Special Report by Russell Sage Foundation.

Jobs and Business: The State of Opportunity for Workers Restoring the Gulf, a Fact Sheet by The Opportunity Agenda

Health and Health Care: Opportunity for Health Security among Katrina's Victims, a Fact Sheet by The Opportunity Agenda

Forgotten Communities, Unmet Promises: An unfolding tragedy on the Gulf Coast, a Briefing Paper by Oxfam America.

A Failure of Initiative: The Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina, a report by U.S. House of Representatives on the failures in the Katrina response

Overview of comparative damage from Hurricane Katrina & Rita Louisiana Recovery Authority. December 19, 2005 (PowerPoint file)

Greater New Orleans Community Data Center the most comprehensive resource for data on the New Orleans region and the Katrina

Neighborhoods of Opportunity in the New Orleans Region by the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University

Guiding Principles for a Just and Equitable Rebuilding of New Orleans a cooperative document produced by six environmental and social justice groups based mostly in Louisiana

Ten Points to Guide Rebuilding in the Gulf Coast Region from PolicyLink

A Bill of Rights for Rebuilding New Orleans  from the African-American Leadership Project

The Hurricanes’ Legacy: Redevelopment in the Gulf Coast and the Nation  from Smart Growth America

New Orleans after the Storm: Lessons from the Past, a Plan for the Future a report from The Brookings Institution

Katrina: Issues and the Aftermath from The Brookings Institution

New Orleans: Plan for Racial Equality and Environmental Justice statement by the Planners Network Steering Committee

Thoughts on After Katrina: Diaspora and the Second Reconstruction by David Rusk, former mayor of Albuquerque and National Strategic Partner of the Gamaliel Foundation

Katrina and the Second Disaster: A Twenty-Point Plan to Destroy Black New Orleans  by Robert D. Bullard, PhD, Director, Environmental Justice Resource Center, Clark Atlanta University

In the Wake of Katrina: Provide Mobility, Not Just Mobile Homes by Bruce Katz in San Francisco Chronicle, September 18, 2005

The Color Line in Greenbuilding by Robert D. Bullard and Monique Harden

Katrina and the Demographics of Destruction and Reconstruction from The Center for Law in the Public Interest

Collins Center to Help Hurricane Ravaged States

Katrina's Window: Confronting Concentrated Poverty Across America by Alan Berube and Bruce Katz, a report from the Brookings Institution

Katrina: A Watershed for a Nation and a Movement by David Goldberg of Smart Growth America Smart Growth America's Rebuilding After Katrina news & links page

Learning from Disasters: London’s Great Fire and Katrina by Rutherford H. Platt, Professor of Geography at University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of Disasters and Democracy: The Politics of Extreme Natural Events

Extensive list of Katrina links from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Geography Department