Resilience and Opportunity: Lessons from the U.S. Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita

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Policy analysis performed in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005, tends to focus on what went wrong in the post-disaster emergency response. Certainly there are plenty of dispiriting tales to tell about government inaction or perceived incompetence on that front. Such analysis is critically important, of course. This book, however, occupies a different and somewhat more positive niche. Resilience and Opportunity examines the important ingredients in post-disaster recovery, with an eye toward how to rebuild communities that are more resilient and prosperous in the face of multiple disasters.

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Amy Liu is a senior fellow and codirector of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. Roland V. Anglin is executive director of the Initiative for Regional and Community Development at Rutgers University's Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Richard M. Mizelle, Jr. is an assistant professor of history at Florida State University. Allison Plyer is deputy director of the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center.