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On this page you will find information on reports and books and recently released films that explore the human, environmental, and economic toll of Katrina.
Click on the topic you are interested in below, or scroll down the page to see the complete list.
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Abramson, David and Richard Garfield.
2006. On the Edge: Children and Families Displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Face a Looming Medical and Mental Health Crisis. A Report of the Louisiana Child and Family Health Study. New York: National Center for
Disaster Preparedness and Operation Assist, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
http://www.ncdp.mailman.columbia.edu/
files/On%20the%20Edge%20L
-CAFH%20Final%20
Report_Columbia%20University.pdf
Abramson, David, Richard Garfield, and Irwin Redlener. 2007. The Recovery Divide: Poverty and the Widening Gap among Mississippi Children and Families Affected by Hurricane Katrina. A
Report of the Mississippi Child and Family Health Study. New York: National Center for Disaster Preparedness and the Children’s Health Fund, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
http://www.ncdp.mailman.columbia.edu/files/
recovery_divide.pdf
Abramson, David, Irwin Redlener, Tasha Stehling-Ariza, and Elizabeth Fuller. 2007. The Legacy of Katrina’s Children: Estimating the Numbers of Hurricane-Related At-Risk Children in the
Gulf Coast States of Louisiana and Mississippi. A Research Brief prepared by the National Center for Disaster Preparedness in collaboration with the Children’s Health Fund. New York: Columbia University Mailman School of
Public Health.
http://www.ncdp.mailman.columbia.edu/files/legacy_
katrina_children.pdf
Children’s Defense Fund. 2006. Katrina’s Children: A Call to Conscience and Action. Washington, DC: Children’s Defense Fund.
http://cdf.convio.net/site/DocServer/KatrinaReport.pdf?
docID=1421
Children’s Defense Fund. (2007). Katrina’s Children: Still Waiting. Washington, DC: Children’s Defense Fund.
http://www.childrensdefense.org/site/DocServer/
Katrina_report07.pdf?docID=3721
Golden, Olivia. 2006. Young Children after Katrina: A Proposal to Heal the Damage and Create Opportunity in New Orleans. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute.
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/900920_young
_children.pdf
Hill, Paul and Jane Hannaway. 2006. The Future of Public Education in New Orleans. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute.
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/900913_public
_education.pdf
Jaycox, Lisa H., Lindsey K. Morse, Terri Tanielian, and Bradley D. Stein. 2006. How Schools Can Help Students Recover from Traumatic Experiences: A Tool Kit for Supporting Long-Term
Recovery. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2006/
RAND_TR413.pdf
Mercer, Charmaine, Richard N. Apling, Paul Irwin, Ann Lordeman, Rebecca R. Skinner, and David P. Smole. 2005. Education and Training Issues Related to Major Disasters. Order Code RL33089. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service.
http://www.library.dau.mil/CRS_RL33089.pdf
Operation Assist. 2006. Responding to an Emerging Humanitarian Crisis in Louisiana and Mississippi: Urgent Need for a Health Care “Marshall Plan.” New York: Operation Assist, the
Children’s Health Fund, and Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
http://www.ncdp.mailman.columbia.edu/files/
marshall_plan.pdf
Pane, John F., Daniel F. McCaffrey, Shannah Tharp-Taylor, Gary J. Asmus, and Billy R. Stokes. 2006. Student Displacement in Louisiana after the Hurricanes of 2005: Experiences of Public
Schools and Their Students. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2006/
RAND_TR430.pdf
Peek, Lori and Alice Fothergill. 2006. “Reconstructing Childhood: An Exploratory Study of Children in Hurricane Katrina.” Quick Response Report #186. Boulder: Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, University of Colorado.
http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/research/qr/qr186/
qr186.pdf
U.S. Government Accountability Office. 2006. Lessons Learned for Protecting and Educating Children after the Gulf Coast Hurricanes. GAO-06-680R. Washington, DC: GAO.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06680r.pdf
United Teachers of New Orleans, Louisiana Federation of Teachers, and the American Federation of Teachers. 2006. ‘National Model’ or Flawed Approach? The Post-Katrina New Orleans Public
Schools. New Orleans: United Teachers of New Orleans.
http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/downloads/reports/No_report.pdf
United Teachers of New Orleans, Louisiana Federation of Teachers, and the American Federation of Teachers. 2007. No Experience Necessary: How the New Orleans School Takeover Experiment
Devalues Experienced Teachers. New Orleans: United Teachers of New Orleans.
http://www.aft.org/presscenter/releases/downloads/
NoExperReport_07.pdf
United Teachers of New Orleans, Louisiana Federation of Teachers, and the American Federation of Teachers. 2007. Reading, Writing, and Reality Check: An Early Assessment of Student
Achievement in Post-Katrina New Orleans. New Orleans: United Teachers of New Orleans.
http://la.aft.org/UTNO/index.cfm?action=article&articleID
=eb05edfd-2efe-42b7-8753-dc4b84e3b504
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Appleseed. 2006. A Continuing Storm: The On-Going Struggles of Hurricane Katrina Evacuees.
http://www.appleseeds.net/Portals/0/Documents/
Publications/KatrinaContinuingStorm.pdf
Appleseed Hurricane Katrina Project. 2006. Atlanta City Report.
http://www.appleseeds.net/Portals/0/Documents/
Publications/katrinaatlantacity.pdf
Appleseed Hurricane Katrina Project. 2006. Baton Rouge City Report.
http://www.appleseeds.net/Portals/0/Documents/
Publications/katrinabatonrougecity.pdf
Appleseed Hurricane Katrina Project. 2006. Birmingham City Report.
http://www.appleseeds.net/Portals/0/Documents/
Publications/katrinabirminghamcity.pdf
Appleseed Hurricane Katrina Project. 2006. Houston City Report.
http://www.appleseeds.net/Portals/0/Documents/
Publications/katrinahoustoncity.pdf
Appleseed Hurricane Katrina Project. 2006. New Orleans City Report.
http://www.appleseeds.net/Portals/0/Documents/
Publications/katrinaneworleanscity.pdf
Appleseed Hurricane Katrina Project. 2006. San Antonio City Report.
http://www.appleseeds.net/Portals/0/Documents/
Publications/katrinasanantoniocity.pdf
Appleseed Hurricane Katrina Project. 2006. Interviewees.
http://www.appleseeds.net/Portals/0/Documents/
Publications/katrinainterviews.pdf
Fischer, Will and Barbara Sard. 2005. Bringing Katrina’s Poorest Victims Home: Targeted Federal Assistance Will be Needed to Give Neediest Evacuees Option to Return to Their Hometowns.
Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
http://www.cbpp.org/11-2-05hous.pdf
Sastry, Narayan. 2007. Tracing the Effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Population of New Orleans: The Displaced New Orleans Residents Pilot Study. New Orleans: RAND Gulf States Policy
Institute.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/2007/
RAND_WR483.pdf
Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard University. 2005. Survey of Hurricane Katrina Evacuees. Report No. 7401. Washington, DC: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
http://www.kff.org/newsmedia/upload/7401.pdf
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Economic Effects and Employment
American Association of University Professors. 2007. Report of an AAUP Special Committee: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans Universities. Washington, DC: American Association of
University Professors.
http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/protect/academicfreedom/
investrep/2007/katrina.htm
Cashell, Brian W. and Marc Labonte. 2005. The Macroeconomic Effects of Hurricane Katrina. Order Code RS22260. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service.
http://www.opencrs.com/document/RS22260/
Holzer, Harry J. and Robert I. Lerman. 2006. Employment Issues and Challenges in Post-Katrina New Orleans. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute.
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/900921_employment
_issues.pdf
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Emergency Preparedness and Response
America’s Second Harvest. 2005. “Katrina and Rita Aftermath: The Impact on Emergency Food Distribution and Clients.” Chicago, IL: America’s Second Harvest.
http://www.secondharvest.org/export/sites/harvest/
learn_about_hunger/KatrinaStudyReport.pdf
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. 2007. The Best Laid Plans: The Story of How the Government Ignored Its Own Gulf Coast Hurricane Plan. Washington, DC: Citizens for
Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
http://www.citizensforethics.org/files/Katrina%20DHS
%20Report.pdf
Curtis, Andrew, Jacqueline Warren Mills, Jason K. Blackburn, and John C. Pine. 2006. “Hurricane Katrina: GIS Response for a Major Metropolitan Area.” Quick Response Report #180. Boulder:
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, University of Colorado.
http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/research/qr/qr180/
qr180.html
Davis, Lynn E., Jill Rough, Gary Cecchine, Agnes Gereben Schaefer, and Laurinda L. Zeman. 2007. Hurricane Katrina: Lessons for Army Planning and Operations. Santa Monica, CA: RAND
Corporation.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2007/
RAND_MG603.pdf
Luther, Linda. 2005. NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) and Hurricane Response, Recovery, and Rebuilding Efforts. Order Code RL33104. 9/28/05. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service.
http://www.opencrs.com/document/RL33104/
Richardson, Joe. 2006. Federal Food Assistance in Disasters: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Order Code RL33102. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service.
http://www.opencrs.com/document/RL33102/
U.S. Congress Select Bipartisan Committee. 2006. A Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane
Katrina. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/creports/katrina.html
U.S. Congress Select Bipartisan Committee. 2006. A Failure of Initiative: Supplemental Report and Document Annex. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/creports/katrinasupp.html
U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. 2006. Hurricane Katrina: A Nation Still Unprepared. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/creports/
katrinanation.html
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Inspector General. 2006. Nursing Home Emergency Preparedness and Response during Recent Hurricanes. Washington, DC: HHS.
http://www.oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-06-06-00020.pdf
U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General. 2006. A Performance Review of FEMA’s Disaster Management Activities in Response to Hurricane Katrina. Washington, DC:
DHS.
http://www.dhs.gov/xoig/assets/mgmtrpts/OIG_06-32_Mar06.pdf
U.S. Department of Justice. Hurricane Katrina Fraud Task Force. 2006. Hurricane Katrina Fraud Task Force: First Year Report to the Attorney General. Washington, DC: DOJ.
http://www.usdoj.gov/katrina/Katrina_Fraud/docs/09-12-06AGprogressrpt.pdf
U.S. Government Accountability Office. 2005. Hurricane Katrina: Providing Oversight of the Nation’s Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Activities. GAO-05-1053T. Washington, DC: GAO.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d051053t.pdf
U.S. Government Accountability Office. 2005. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Provision of Charitable Assistance. GAO-06-297T. Washington, DC: GAO.
http://www.www.gao.gov/new.items/d06297t.pdf
U.S. Government Accountability Office. 2006. Coast Guard: Observations on the Preparation, Response, and Recovery Missions Related to Hurricane Katrina. GAO-06-903. Washington, DC: GAO.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06903.pdf
U.S. Government Accountability Office. 2006. Expedited Assistance for Victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: FEMA’s Control Weaknesses Exposed the Government to Significant Fraud and
Abuse. GAO-06-655. Washington, DC: GAO.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06655.pdf
U.S. Government Accountability Office. 2006. Hurricane Katrina: Better Plans and Exercises Needed to Guide the Military’s Response to Catastrophic Natural Disasters. GAO-06-643.
Washington, DC: GAO.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06643.pdf
U.S. Government Accountability Office. 2006. Hurricane Katrina: GAO’s Preliminary Observations Regarding Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. GAO-06-442T. Washington, DC: GAO.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06442t.pdf
U.S. Government Accountability Office. 2006. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Coordination between FEMA and the Red Cross Should be Improved for the 2006 Hurricane Season. GAO-06-712.
Washington, DC: GAO.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06712.pdf
U.S. Government Accountability Office. 2006. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Disaster Relief: Improper and Potentially Fraudulent Individual Assistance Payments Estimated to be between $600
Million and $1.4 Billion. GAO-06-844T. Washington, DC: GAO.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06844t.pdf
U.S. Government Accountability Office. 2006. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Unprecedented Challenges Exposed the Individuals and Households Program to Fraud and Abuse; Actions Needed to
Reduce Such Problems in Future. GAO-06-1013. Washington, DC: GAO.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d061013.pdf
U.S. Government Accountability Office. 2006. Statement by Comptroller General David M. Walker on GAO’s Preliminary Observations Regarding Preparedness and Response to Hurricanes Katrina
and Rita. GAO-06-365R. Washington, DC: GAO.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06365r.pdf
U.S. Government Accountability Office. 2007. Observations on DHS and FEMA Efforts to Prepare for and Respond to Major and Catastrophic Disasters and Address Related Recommendations and
Legislation. GAO-07-835T. Washington, DC: GAO.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07835t.pdf
White House. 2006. The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned. Washington, DC: White House.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/reports/katrina-lessons-learned.pdf
Winston, Pamela, Olivia Golden, Kenneth Finegold, Kim Rueben, Margery Austin Turner, and Stephen Zuckerman. 2006. Federalism after Hurricane Katrina: How Can Social Programs Respond to a
Major Disaster. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute.
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/311344
_after_katrina.pdf
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Bullard, Robert D. 2006. Let Them Eat Dirt: Will the ‘Mother of All Toxic Cleanups’ Be Fair to All NOLA Neighborhoods, Even When Some Contamination Predates Katrina? Atlanta, GA: Clark
Atlanta University.
http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/Let_Them_Eat_Dirt.pdf
Esworthy, Robert, Linda Jo Schierow, Claudia Copeland, and Linda Luther. 2005. Cleanup after Hurricane Katrina: Environmental Considerations. Order Code RL33115. Washington, DC:
Congressional Research Service. www.opencrs.com/document/RL33115/
http://www.opencrs.com/document/RL33115/
Luther, Linda. 2006. Disaster Debris Removal after Hurricane Katrina: Status and Associated Issues. Order Code RL33477. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service.
http://www.opencrs.com/document/RL33477/
Solomon, Gina M. and Miriam Rotkin-Ellman. 2006. Contamination in New Orleans Sediment: An Analysis of EPA Data. New York: Natural Resource Defense Council.
http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/katrinadata/
sedimentepa.pdf
Zinn, Jeffrey A. 2005. Coastal Louisiana Ecosystem Restoration after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Order Code RS22276. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service.
http://www.opencrs.com/document/RS22276/
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U.S. Government Accountability Office. 2006. Disaster Preparedness: Preliminary Observations on the Evacuation of Hospitals and Nursing Homes due to Hurricanes. GAO-06-443R. Washington, DC: GAO.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06443r.pdf
U.S. Government Accountability Office. 2006. Disaster Preparedness: Preliminary Observations on the Evacuation of Vulnerable Populations due to Hurricanes and Other Disasters.
GAO-06-790T. Washington, DC: GAO.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06790t.pdf
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Aguilar, Tomas and Laura Podolsky. 2006. Risk Amid Recovery: Occupational Health and Safety of Latino Immigrant Workers in the Aftermath of the Gulf Coast Hurricanes. A Report published
by the University of California at Los Angeles Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.
http://www.losh.ucla.edu/publications/
riskreportenglish.pdf
Artiga, Samantha, Adrianne Dulio, Michael Perry, David Rousseau, and Adele Shartzer. 2006. Voices of the Storm: Health Experiences of Low-Income Katrina Survivors. Washington, DC: The
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
http://www.kff.org/uninsured/upload/7538.pdf
Auer, Jennifer Claire and Linda M. Lampkin. 2006. Open and Operating? An Assessment of Louisiana Nonprofit Health and Human Services after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute.
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/900916_open
_and_operating.pdf
Boyd, Ezra. 2005. Preliminary Summary Report of Hurricane Katrina Deceased Victim Recovery Locations in Louisiana. Unpublished report.
http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/health06/docs/
summary_report.pdf
Frieden, Lex. 2006. The Needs of People with Psychiatric Disabilities during and after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Position Paper and Recommendations. Washington, DC: National Council on Disability.
http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/2006/
pdf/peopleneeds.pdf
Gillam, Marcheta, Steve Fischbach, Lynne Wolf, Nkiru Azikiwe, and Philip Tegeler, eds. 2007. Rebuilding a Healthy New Orleans. Final Conference Report of the New Orleans Health
Disparities Initiative.
http://www.prrac.org/pdf/rebuild_healthy_nola.pdf
Gray, Bradford H. and Kathy Hebert. 2006. Hospitals in Hurricane Katrina: Challenges Facing Custodial Institutions in a Disaster. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute.
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411348
_katrinahospitals.pdf
Lister, Sarah A. 2005. Hurricane Katrina: The Public Health and Medical Response. Order Code RL33096. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service.
http://www.opencrs.com/document/RL33096/
U.S. Government Accountability Office. 2006. Hurricane Katrina: Status of the Health Care System in New Orleans and Difficult Decisions Related to Efforts to Rebuild It Approximately 6
Months after Hurricane Katrina. GAO-06-576R. Washington, DC: GAO.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06576r.pdf
White, Glen W., Michael H. Fox, Catherine Rooney, and Anthony Cahill. 2007. Assessing the Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Persons with Disabilities. Lawrence: The Research and Training
Center on Independent Living, University of Kansas.
http://www.rtcil.org/products/NIDRR
_FinalKatrinaReport.pdf
Zuckerman, Stephan and Teresa Coughlin. 2006. Initial Health Policy Responses to Hurricane Katrina and Possible Next Steps. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute.
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/
900929_health_policy.pdf
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Bernstein, Mark A., Julie Kim, Paul Sorensen, Mark Hanson, Adrian Overton, and Scott Hiromoto. 2006. Rebuilding Housing Along the Mississippi Coast: Ideas for Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Affordable Housing. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/2006/
RAND_OP162.pdf
Clark, Annie and Kalima Rose. 2007. Bringing Louisiana Renters Home: An Evaluation of the 2006-2007 Gulf Opportunity Zone Rental Housing Restoration Program. Oakland, CA: PolicyLink.
http://www.policylink.org/documents/LRHC.pdf
Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center. 2007. For Rent, Unless You’re Black: An Audit Report and Study on Race Discrimination in the Greater New Orleans Metropolitan Rental
Housing Market. New Orleans: Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center.
http://www.gnofairhousing.org/pdfs/
GNOFHAC%202007%20Rental%20Audit.pdf
Harvey, Bart. 2006. Rebuilding Hope and Homes. A One-Year Report. Columbia, MD: Enterprise Community Partners.
http://www.enterprisecommunity.org/programs/
documents/gulf_coast_rebuilding.pdf
McCarty, Maggie, Libby Perl, and Bruce E. Foote. 2006. HUD’s Response to Hurricane Katrina. Order Code RS22358. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service.
http://www.opencrs.com/document/RS22358/
Popkin, Susan J., Margery A. Turner, and Martha Burt. 2006. Rebuilding Affordable Housing in New Orleans: The Challenge of Creating Inclusive Communities. Washington, DC: The Urban
Institute.
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/900914_affordable
_housing.pdf
Turner, Margery Austin, Barika X Williams, Glenn Kates, Susan J. Popkin, and Carol Rabenhorst. 2007. Affordable Rental Housing in Healthy Communities: Rebuilding after Hurricanes Katrina
and Rita. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute.
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411514
_affordable_rental_housing.pdf
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ACORN. 2006. New Orleans: Recover, Rebuild, Organize. A Report on the ACORN Katrina Recovery and Rebuilding Campaign. New Orleans: ACORN.
http://www.acorn.org/fileadmin/KatrinaRelief/report/
One_Year_Katrina_Web.pdf
Collective Strength. 2006. 2006 Recovery Survey: Citizen and Civic Leader Research Summary of Findings. Project Funded by Louisiana Recovery Authority Support Foundation.
http://lra.louisiana.gov/assets/junemeeting/
2006RecoveryResearchFinal061506.pdf
Fletcher, Laurel E., Phuong Pham, Eric Stover, and Patrick Vinck. 2006. Rebuilding after Katrina: A Population-Based Study of Labor and Human Rights in New Orleans. A report published by
the International Human Rights Law Clinic, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley; Human Rights Center, University of California at Berkeley; and Payson Center for International Development and
Technology Transfer, Tulane University.
http://www.hrcberkeley.org/download/report_katrina.pdf
Greater New Orleans Community Data Center. 2007. Tracking Recovery of New Orleans and the Metro Area. New Orleans: Greater New Orleans Community Data Center in collaboration with The
Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program.
http://www.gnocdc.org/KI/KatrinaIndex.pdf
Hurricane Katrina Community Advisory Group. 2006. Overview of Baseline Survey Results: Hurricane Katrina Community Advisory Group. Cambridge, MA: Harvard School of Public Health.
http://hurricanekatrina.med.harvard.edu/pdf/baseline
_report%208-25-06.pdf
Ikeda, Sanford and Peter Gordon. 2007. Power to the Neighborhoods: The Devolution of Authority in Post-Katrina New Orleans. Mercatus Policy Series, Policy Comment No. 12. Arlington, VA:
Mercatus Center, George Mason University.
http://www.mercatus.org/Publications/pubID.4280/
pub_detail.asp
Institute for Southern Studies/Southern Exposure. 2007. Blueprint for Gulf Renewal: The Katrina Crisis and a Community Agenda for Action. Durham, NC: Institute for Southern
Studies/Southern Exposure.
http://www.southernstudies.org/gulfblueprint.pdf
Jackson, Maria-Rosario. 2006. Rebuilding the Cultural Vitality of New Orleans. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute.
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/900927_cultural
_vitality.pdf
Kaiser Family Foundation. 2007. Giving Voice to the People of New Orleans: The Kaiser Post-Katrina Baseline Survey. Report No. 7631. Washington, DC: The Henry J. Kaiser Family
Foundation.
http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/upload/7631.pdf
McCarthy, Kevin F., D. J. Peterson, Narayan Sastry, and Michael Pollard. 2006. The Repopulation of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR369/
Mississippi Renewal Forum. 2005. Summary Report: Recommendations for Rebuilding the Gulf Coast. Gaithersburg, MD: The Town Paper.
http://www.mississippirenewal.com/documents/Rep
_SummaryReport.pdf
PolicyLink. 2007. Hope Needs Help. Issue Brief: Building a Better New Orleans. Washington, DC: PolicyLink.
http://www.policylink.org/HopeNeedsHelp/
HopeNeedsHelp.pdf
Roman, Caterina Gouvis, Seri Irazola, Jenny W. L. Osborne. 2007. Washed Away? Justice in New Orleans. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute.
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411530_washed
_away.pdf
Rostker, Bernard D., William M. Hix, and Jeremy M. Wilson. 2007. Recruitment and Retention: Lessons from the New Orleans Police Department. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/2007/RAND
_MG585.pdf
Tsongas, Ashley and Gregory Button. 2006. Recovering States? The Gulf Coast Six Months after the Storms. Oxfam Briefing Paper. Boston, MA: Oxfam America.
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/newsandpublications/
publications/briefing_papers/recovering_states
Turner, Margery Austin. 2006. Building Opportunity and Equity into the New New Orleans: A Framework for Policy and Action. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute.
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/900930_building
_opportunity.pdf
U.S. Government Accountability Office. 2007. Hurricane Katrina: Agency Contracting Data Should be More Complete Regarding Subcontracting Opportunities for Small Business. GAO-07-698T.
Washington, DC: GAO.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07698t.pdf
U.S. Government Accountability Office. 2007. Gulf Coast Rebuilding: Preliminary Observations on Progress to Date and Challenges for the Future. GAO-07-574T. Washington, DC: GAO.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07574t.pdf
Zedlewski, Sheila R. 2006. Building a Better Safety Net for the New New Orleans. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute.
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/900922_safety
_net.pdf
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Berube, Alan and Bruce Katz. 2005. Katrina’s Window: Confronting Concentrated
Poverty Across America. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program.
http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2005/10poverty_berube.aspx
Center for Social Inclusion. 2006. The Race to Rebuild: The Color of Opportunity and the Future of New Orleans. New York: The Center for Social Inclusion: A Project of the Tides Center.
http://www.centerforsocialinclusion.org/PDF/racetorebuild.pdf
Frey, William H. and Audrey Singer. 2006. Katrina and Rita Impacts on Gulf Coast Populations: First Census Findings. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program.
http://www3.brookings.edu/metro/pubs/20060607_hurricanes.pdf
Gabe, Thomas, Gene Falk, Maggie McCarty, and Virginia W. Mason. 2005. Hurricane Katrina: Social Demographic Characteristics of Impacted Areas. Order Code RL33141. Washington, DC:
Congressional Research Service.
http://www.gnocdc.org/reports/crsrept.pdf
Gault, Barbara, Heidi Hartmann, Avis Jones-DeWeever, Misha Werschkul, and Erica Williams. 2005. The Women of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast: Multiple Disadvantages and Key Assets for
Recovery. Part 1. Poverty, Race, Gender, and Class. Washington, DC: Institute for Women’s Policy Research.
http://www.iwpr.org/pdf/D464.pdf
Gibson, Mary Jo and Michele Hayunga. 2006. We Can Do Better: Lessons Learned for Protecting Older Persons in Disaster. Washington, DC: AARP.
http://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/il/better.pdf
Logan, John R. 2005. The Impact of Katrina: Race and Class in Storm-Damaged Neighborhoods. Providence, RI: Brown University.
http://www.s4.brown.edu/Katrina/report.pdf
The Urban Institute. 2005. Katrina: Demographics of a Disaster. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute.
http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/900835_katrina
_factsheet.pdf
Vaill, Sarah. 2006. The Calm in the Storm: Women Leaders in Gulf Coast Recovery. San Francisco: Women’s Funding Network and New York: Ms. Foundation for Women.
http://www.wfnet.org/documents/publications/katrina
_report_082706.pdf
Williams, Erica, Olga Sorokina, Avis Jones-DeWeever, and Heidi Hartmann. 2006. The Women of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast: Multiple Disadvantages and Key Assets for Recovery. Part II.
Gender, Race, and Class in the Labor Market. Washington, DC: Institute for Women’s Policy Research.
http://www.iwpr.org/pdf/D465.pdf
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Bates, Kristin A. and Richelle S. Swan, eds. 2007. Through the Eye of Katrina: Social Justice in the United States. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
Brasch, Walter M. 2006. ‘Unacceptable’: The Federal Government’s Response to Hurricane Katrina. Charleston, SC: BookSurge.
Brinkley, Douglas. 2006. The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. New York: William Morrow.
Brunsma, David L., David Overfelt, and J. Steven Picou, eds. 2007. The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Childs, John Brown, ed. 2007. Hurricane Katrina: Response and Responsibilities. Santa Cruz, CA: New Pacific Press.
Clark, Jim D. 2006. Grace Amid Tragedy: A Red Cross Volunteer on the Katrina Frontline. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse.
CNN News. 2006. CNN Reports: Katrina – State of Emergency. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing.
Cooper, Christopher and Robert Block. 2006. Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security. New York: Times Books.
Craig, Steven J. 2007. Chronicles of Katrina: Lessons Learned from the Hurricane Katrina Disaster for Your Home Preparedness Planning. Parker, CO: Outskirts Press.
Dallas Morning News. 2006. Eyes of the Storm: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: The Photographic Story. Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing.
Daniels, Ronald J., Donald F. Kettl, and Howard Kunreuther, eds. 2006. On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Dyson, Michael Eric. 2006. Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster. New York: Basic Books.
Espinoza, Cholene. 2006. Through the Eye of the Storm: A Book Dedicated to Rebuilding What Katrina Washed Away. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing.
Farber, Daniel A. and Jim Chen. 2006. Disasters and the Law: Katrina and Beyond. New York: Aspen Publishers.
Forman, Sally. 2007. Eye of the Storm: Inside City Hall during Katrina. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse.
Grady, Dudley, Anitra Matlock, Donnanice Newman, Josef Pons, Will Powell, Shannon Taylor, and Drynisha Wright. 2006. From the Second Line. New Orleans: The Katrina Writing Project.
Greenman, Jim. 2005. What Happened to MY World: Helping Children Cope with Natural Disaster and Catastrophe. Watertown, MA: Comfort for Kids.
Hartman, Chester and Gregory Squires, eds. 2006. There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina. New York: Routledge.
Hidalgo, Danielle Antoinette and Kristen Barber, eds. 2007. Narrating the Storm: Sociological Stories of Hurricane Katrina. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Horne, Jed. 2006. Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City. New York: Random House.
Inglese, Demaree with Diana G. Gallagher. 2007. No Ordinary Heroes: 8 Doctors, 30 Nurses, 7,000 Prisoners and a Category 5 Hurricane. Emeryville, CA: Citadel.
McQuaid, John and Mark Schleifstein. 2006. Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms. New York: Little, Brown, and Company.
Miller, DeMond and Jason Rivera. 2008. Hurricane Katrina and the Redefinition of Landscape. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Moyer, Susan M., ed. 2005. Hurricane Katrina: Stories of Rescue, Recovery, and Rebuilding in the Eye of the Storm. Roseburg, OR: Spotlight Press.
Natural Hazards Center. 2006. Learning from Catastrophe: Quick Response Research in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina. Boulder: Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at
Boulder.
Neff, Thomas. 2007. Holding Out and Hanging On: Surviving Hurricane Katrina. Columbia: University of Missouri Press.
Nine Times Social and Pleasure Club. 2007. Coming Out the Door for the Ninth Ward. New Orleans: The Neighborhood Story Project.
Potter, Hillary, ed. 2007. Racing the Storm: Racial Implications and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Reed, Betsy, ed. 2006. Unnatural Disaster: The Nation on Hurricane Katrina. New York: Nation Books.
Robinson, Sharon P. and M. Christopher Brown II, eds. 2007. The Children Hurricane Katrina Left Behind: Schooling Context, Professional Preparation, and Community Politics. New York:
Peter Lang.
Schaefer, Mikel. 2007. Lost in Katrina. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing.
Sothern, Billy. 2007. Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City. Berkeley: University of California Press.
South End Press Collective, eds. 2007. What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.
Sylvester, Judith. 2008. The Media and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Lost and Found. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Tidwell, Mike. 2006. The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America’s Coastal Cities. Washington, DC: Free Press.
TIME Magazine. 2005. Hurricane Katrina: The Storm that Changed America. New York: Time.
Tracy, Lisa. 2006. Muddy Waters: The Legacy of Katrina and Rita. Health Care Providers Remember – and Look Ahead. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association.
Troutt, David Dante, ed. 2006. After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina. New York: New Press.
Van Heerden, Ivor and Mike Bryan. 2006. The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why during Hurricane Katrina – The Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist. New York: Viking.
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Kate Browne and Ginny Martin. Still Waiting: Life after Katrina. Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
http://www.stillwaiting.colostate.edu/
Jonathan Demme. Right to Return: New Home Movies from the Lower 9th Ward. Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/special/
righttoreturn.html
Spike Lee. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. HBO Documentary Films.
http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/whentheleveesbroke/
Alex LeMay. Desert Bayou.
Tia Lessin and Carl Deal. Trouble the Water.
Greg Palast. Big Easy to Big Empty: The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans.
http://www.gregpalast.com/big-easy-to-big-empty-the-untold-story-of-the-drowning-of-new-orleans/
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Source: The information on this page was adapted from Lori Peek's Hurricane Katrina Research Bibliography developed for the Social Science Research Council. The entire bibliography
can be downloaded from http://katrinaresearchhub.ssrc.org/KatrinaBibliography.pdf/
view.