Hurricane Katrina and the Flooding of New Orleans: Emergent Issues in Sheltering and Temporary Housing

Nigg, Joanne M.; Barnshaw, John; Torres, Manuel R.

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“…Research conducted in communities that received evacuees from Hurricane Katrina showed that the magnitude of the people involved overwhelmed state and local capabilities to assist evacuees and also began to put a strain on community services. 11,15 Feelings of stress were widespread in the four regions, and additional eating, smoking, and drinking were found. Public health systems should include increased education about positive countermeasures to stress following natural disasters.…”

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The Public's Preparedness for Hurricanes in Four Affected Regions

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SYNOPSISObjectives. The purpose of this article is to look at how prepared people in communities outside the main areas devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita thought they were for those storms and for major hurricanes in the near future, what factors were related to why people did not evacuate, and what concerns people had in communities that took in evacuees from the hurricanes.Methods. Telephone interviews were conducted with randomly selected adults in Baton Rouge, Houston, Dallas, and Mississippi/Alabama (excluding the immediate Gulf Coast) to assess respondents' knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors about hurricane preparedness and response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.Results. The surveys found a sizeable proportion of respondents who might not, for a number of reasons, comply with future orders to evacuate. A substantial proportion reported that they were not prepared for another major hurricane and indicated a desire for more information about how to prepare for future hurricanes. In communities that reported taking in large numbers of evacuees, residents expressed concern about the impact of the evacuees on their community. Conclusion.Evacuating communities involves a number of concrete problems that were not adequately addressed in the cases of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Responses to these surveys indicate a need for more comprehensive hurricane disaster planning.

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The Public's Preparedness for Hurricanes in Four Affected Regions

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“…Of unprecedented magnitude, this disaster revealed problems in emergency shelter and temporary housing at pre-and post-disaster stages. For example, adequate places of refuge must be identified in advance, but the potential for them to become dangerous sites themselves in need of evacuation if a disaster worsens, or impossible to staff, provision and manage especially if evacuee numbers reach the thousands and not just hundreds, was also then brought home (Nigg et al, 2006). Full recovery does not necessarily or quickly follow a response.…”

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Introduction: Disasters, Housing, Actuarialism and the Securitisation of Risk

Williams

Jacobs

2011

Housing Studies

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Increasingly complex and severe disasters continue to occur, and housing remains a major part of the infrastructure impacted but is also central to recovery and resilience. This special issue of Housing Studies brings together papers that consider how disasters and disaster management are conceived in relation to housing. This introduction sets the scene by drawing upon the work of Beck and Foucault to show how the governance of risk society is constituted through particular ways of knowing and not-knowing, the enactment of safety, insecurity and the methods associated with actuarialism.

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“…A house is a space for people to live in, providing conditions for family life, comfort, protection, and privacy. Disaster relief efforts should prioritize the need for housing, because the loss of a house involves more than physical deprivation; it represents the loss of dignity, identity, and privacy [3,4,10,11].…”

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“…Although the provision of shelters is widely accepted as a necessary component of response and recovery following disasters such as earthquake, hurricanes, tsunamis, and floods, it is not yet clear which type of shelter is best as in certain cases shelter implementation has been hindered by inappropriate climate, cultural differences, poorly located settings, camp-related social issues, expenses, overcrowding, poor services, and delays [6, [11][12][13]. In addition, the design of shelters may potentially provide an unacceptable standard of living.…”

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Indoor Thermal Environment of Temporary Mobile Energy Shelter Houses (MeSHs) in South Korea

Kim¹,

Lee²,

Ahn

et al. 2015

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Temporary housing must be developed to support the long-term residence needs of disaster victims. The present study assesses a temporary housing unit, the so-called Mobile Energy Shelter House (MeSH), incorporating the "Korean Dwelling Insulation Standard" in order to reduce energy usage for cooling and heating. To assess energy performance, the characteristics of the indoor thermal environment were measured during the winter and summer seasons. In summer, at maximum insolation, the outdoor temperature was 37.6 °C and the indoor temperature of the MeSH ranged from 18 to 24 °C when the cooling system was not used. Conversely, during winter, the average outdoor temperature was −11.3 °C and the indoor temperature ranged from 16.09 to 20.63 °C when a temperature-controlled floor-heating was installed. Furthermore, the Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) was adopted to determine whether the ISO 7730 comfort criterion (i.e., PMV range from −0.5 to +0.5) was achieved. Based on the calculations presented here, PMV in summer ranged from −1.21 to +1.07 and that in winter ranged from −0.08 to −0.85, suggesting that the thermal environment is not always comfortable for occupants in either summer or winter. Nevertheless, the ISO comfort criterion can be achieved through varying OPEN ACCESSEnergies 2015, 10 11140 air velocity in summer and changing clothing characteristics in winter. A comparison between yearly energy demand of existing characteristic temporary housing (Shelter House) and the MeSH modules used in this study was performed. The simulation results show a 60% difference in energy demand between MeSH and existing temporary housing shelter houses.

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Hurricane Katrina and the Flooding of New Orleans: Emergent Issues in Sheltering and Temporary Housing

Cited by 101 publications

References 4 publications

The Public's Preparedness for Hurricanes in Four Affected Regions

The Public's Preparedness for Hurricanes in Four Affected Regions

Introduction: Disasters, Housing, Actuarialism and the Securitisation of Risk

Indoor Thermal Environment of Temporary Mobile Energy Shelter Houses (MeSHs) in South Korea

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