Featured Article: Forum: Resiliency: Five Years after Katrina

By Beverly A. Cigler

Beverly A. Cigler, in her Forum article “Resiliency: Five Years after Katrina,” analyzes the impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans, as well as the disasters that have affected the city in the 5 years after the hurricane struck.  Cigler discusses many topics including:

• oil spill impacts on New Orleans

• remembering Katrina

• New Orleans five years post-Katrina

• ensuring resilience

• new emergency management continuum

• dissemination of best practices

• other changes related to FEMA post-Katrina.

Excerpt Taken Directly From “Resiliency: Five Years after Katrina”

“Residents of New Orleans and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast have been trying to adjust to their “new normal” in the five years since Hurricane Katrina and the “Great Flood” in New Orleans, along with subsequent Hurricanes Rita, Wilma, Ike, and Gustav. The new normal changed abruptly when an industrial accident, the Deep-water Horizon drilling rig explosion, occurred off the coast of Louisiana on April 20, 2010. The burning rig took 11 lives and was followed by the worst environmental disaster the United States has ever faced, along with economic, social, and cultural impacts associated with gushing oil just as another hurricane season approached.”

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