Fostering community resilience homeland security and Hurricane Katrina by Lansford, Tom

Subjects: “…Hurricane Katrina, 2005…”

Accepting the invisible hand market-based approaches to social-economic problems

Table of Contents: “…1 Markets and Dignity: The Essential Link (With an Application to Health Care); 2 Markets, Discovery, and Social Problems; 3 Economic Freedom and Global Poverty; 4 Don't Let the Best Be the Enemy of the Good: A Stoic Defense of the Market; 5 Ethics in the Mayan Market place; 6 Philanthropy and the Invisible Hand: Hayek, Boulding, and Beyond; 7 Life in the Market Is Good for You; 8 Doing the Right Things: The Private Sector Response to Hurricane Katrina as a Case Study in the Bourgeois Virtues…”

From slavery to 9/11 readings in the sociology and social psychology of extreme situations by Langer, Sidney

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 6: Hurricane Katrina. Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina: Social Differences in Human Responses to Disaster / James R. …”

Journalism and citizenship new agendas in communication /

Table of Contents: “…What the blogger knows / Donald Matheson -- "Searching for my own unique place in the story": a comparison of journalistic and citizen-produced coverage of Hurricane Katrina's anniversary / Sue Robinson -- Mapping citizen coverage of the dual city / Lou Rutigliano.…”
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Essentials of oceanography by Garrison, Tom 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Effect Influences the Movement of Air in Atmospheric Circulation Cells -- Three Atmospheric Circulation Cells Circulate in Each Hemisphere -- 7.5.Atmospheric Circulation Generates Large-Scale Surface Wind Patterns -- Monsoons Are Wind Patterns That Change with the Seasons -- El Nino, La Nina -- 7.6.Storms Are Variations in Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation -- Storms Form within or between Air Masses -- Extratropical Cyclones Form between Two Air Masses -- Tropical Cyclones Form in One Air Mass -- 7.7.Katrina and Sandy -- Spotlight Figure 7.24 Comparing Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy -- Questions from Students -- Terms and Concepts to Remember -- Chapter in Perspective -- Study Questions -- Global Environment Watch -- 8.Ocean Circulation -- 8.1.Mass Flow of Ocean Water Is Driven by Wind and Gravity -- 8.2.Surface Currents Are Driven by the Winds -- Surface Currents Flow around the Periphery of Ocean Basins -- Seawater Flows in Six Great Surface Circuits -- Boundary Currents Have Different Characteristics -- A Final Word on Gyres -- 8.3.Surface Currents Affect Weather and Climate -- 8.4.Wind Can Cause Vertical Movement of Ocean Water -- Nutrient-Rich Water Rises Near the Equator -- Wind Can Induce Upwelling Near Coasts -- Wind Can Also Induce Coastal Downwelling -- 8.5.El Nino and La Nina Are Exceptions to Normal Wind and Current Flow -- 8.6.Thermohaline Circulation Affects All the Ocean's Water -- Water Masses Have Distinct, Often Unique Characteristics…”