Shrinking new Orleans: Post-katrina population adjustments

Urban Geography

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 675-699

  Zaninetti, Jean Marc ^a   Colten, Craig ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptation; disaster; New Orleans; resilience; shrinking city

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FLOODING; HURRICANE KATRINA 2005; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; METROPOLITAN AREA; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STORM; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POLLUTION;

LOUISIANA; NEW ORLEANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862274542     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.33.5.675     Document Type: Article

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