Savage Sand and Surf : The Hurricane Sandy Disaster 9780761865452, 9780761865445

Taking Chances: The Coast after Hurricane Sandy 9780813573793

Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world’s shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy—which took hundreds

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Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore 9781501764325

Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore brings to life the individual and collective voices of a community:

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Empowerment and Social Justice in the Wake of Disasters: Occupy Sandy in Rockaway after Hurricane Sandy, USA 9780367437190, 9781032358949, 9781003005278

This book taps into discussions about social vulnerability, empowerment, and resistance in relation to disaster relief a

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Surf, Sand, and Stone: How Waves, Earthquakes, and Other Forces Shape the Southern California Coast 9780520961852

“Meldahl takes the reader on a tour of coastal Southern California, deftly explaining its complex geologic history, coas

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Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy 9781478025023, 9781478020059

In Immeasurable Weather Sara J. Grossman explores how environmental data collection has been central to the larger proje

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Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina 9780812204483

This volume examines the rebuilding of cities and their environs after a disaster and focuses on four major issues: maki

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Immeasurable Weather: Meteorological Data and Settler Colonialism from 1820 to Hurricane Sandy 9781478027034

Sara J. Grossman explores how weather data collection has been central to the larger project of settler colonialism in t

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Racialized Disaster Patriarchy: An Intersectional Model for Understanding Disaster Ten Years after Hurricane Katrina

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Playing Politics with Natural Disaster: Hurricane Agnes, the 1972 Election, and the Origins of FEMA 9781501748554

Playing Politics with Natural Disaster explains how the political decisions by local, state, and federal officials shape

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Recovering Inequality: Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster 9781477316122

A lethal mix of natural disaster, dangerously flawed construction, and reckless human actions devastated San Francisco i

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