Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business and EntrepreneurshipPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Small Business
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business and EntrepreneurshipPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Small Business and Hurricane Katrina
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small BusinessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Small business and Hurricane Katrina : rebuilding the economy : hearing before the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, Washington, DC, October 7, 2005.
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1422334058
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina
Author: Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"The objective of this report is to identify and establish a roadmap on how to do that, and lay the groundwork for transforming how this Nation- from every level of government to the private sector to individual citizens and communities - pursues a real and lasting vision of preparedness. To get there will require significant change to the status quo, to include adjustments to policy, structure, and mindset"--P. 2.
Katrina
Author: Gary RivlinPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451692269
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Ten years in the making, Gary Rivlin’s Katrina is “a gem of a book—well-reported, deftly written, tightly focused….a starting point for anyone interested in how The City That Care Forgot develops in its second decade of recovery” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana. A decade later, journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm’s immediate damage, the city of New Orleans’s efforts to rebuild itself, and the storm’s lasting effects not just on the area’s geography and infrastructure—but on the psychic, racial, and social fabric of one of this nation’s great cities. Much of New Orleans still sat under water the first time Gary Rivlin glimpsed the city after Hurricane Katrina as a staff reporter for The New York Times. Four out of every five houses had been flooded. The deluge had drowned almost every power substation and rendered unusable most of the city’s water and sewer system. Six weeks after the storm, the city laid off half its workforce—precisely when so many people were turning to its government for help. Meanwhile, cynics both in and out of the Beltway were questioning the use of taxpayer dollars to rebuild a city that sat mostly below sea level. How could the city possibly come back? “Deeply engrossing, well-written, and packed with revealing stories….Rivlin’s exquisitely detailed narrative captures the anger, fatigue, and ambiguity of life during the recovery, the centrality of race at every step along the way, and the generosity of many from elsewhere in the country” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Katrina tells the stories of New Orleanians of all stripes as they confront the aftermath of one of the great tragedies of our age. This is “one of the must-reads of the season” (The New Orleans Advocate).
Katrina
Author: Andy HorowitzPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067497171X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Winner of the Bancroft Prize Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Book of the Year “The main thrust of Horowitz’s account is to make us understand Katrina—the civic calamity, not the storm itself—as a consequence of decades of bad decisions by humans, not an unanticipated caprice of nature.” —Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, but the decisions that caused the disaster can be traced back nearly a century. After the city weathered a major hurricane in 1915, its Sewerage and Water Board believed that developers could safely build housing near the Mississippi, on lowlands that relied on significant government subsidies to stay dry. When the flawed levee system failed, these were the neighborhoods that were devastated. The flood line tells one important story about Katrina, but it is not the only story that matters. Andy Horowitz investigates the response to the flood, when policymakers made it easier for white New Orleanians to return home than for African Americans. He explores how the profits and liabilities created by Louisiana’s oil industry have been distributed unevenly, prompting dreams of abundance and a catastrophic land loss crisis that continues today. “Masterful...Disasters have the power to reveal who we are, what we value, what we’re willing—and unwilling—to protect.” —New York Review of Books “If you want to read only one book to better understand why people in positions of power in government and industry do so little to address climate change, even with wildfires burning and ice caps melting and extinctions becoming a daily occurrence, this is the one.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
Full Committee Hearing on the Small Business Administration's Response to the 2005 Gulf Coast Hurricanes
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small BusinessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Dynamics of Disasters
Author: Ilias S. KotsireasPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030649733
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Based on the “Fourth International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters” (Kalamata, Greece, July 2019), this volume includes contributions from experts who share their latest discoveries on natural and unnatural disasters. Authors provide overviews of the tactical points involved in disaster relief, outlines of hurdles from mitigation and preparedness to response and recovery, and uses for mathematical models to describe natural and man-made disasters. Topics covered include economics, optimization, machine learning, government, management, business, humanities, engineering, medicine, mathematics, computer science, behavioral studies, emergency services, and environmental studies will engage readers from a wide variety of fields and backgrounds.
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Author: William B. ShearPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437937969
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita wreaked havoc on small businesses (SB) in the Gulf Coast, and much federal assistance has been provided to help these SB. This report described: (1) the amount of assistance provided to Gulf Coast SB through the SBA, HUD Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), and the EPA; (2) the extent to which Gulf Coast SB received fed. contract funds; and (3) the current state of and improvements in the region's economy. The report analyzed data on SBA and EDA loans and states' use of supplemental CDBG appropriations, data on prime and subcontracts awarded for hurricane recovery activities, and economic indicators both before and after the hurricanes. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.
Report on the Activity of the Committee on Small Business for the ... Congress
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small BusinessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Small business
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description