Transportation matters: Stranded on the side of the road before and after disasters strike

Race, Place, and Environmental Justice after Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 63-85

  Bullard, Robert D ^a   Johnson, Glenn S ^a   Torres, Angel O ^a  

^a CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780429497858     Document Type: Chapter

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