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Land Loss: Attachment, Place And Identity In Coastal Louisiana, David Burley
Land Loss: Attachment, Place And Identity In Coastal Louisiana, David Burley
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation explores how people frame environmental change. Specifically, this work explores the identity loss that residents of coastal Louisiana experience due to coastal land loss. I rely on 126 in-depth interviews of residents from communities in six coastal parishes (counties). Respondents convey the meanings they give to land loss through constructing a narrative of place. A phenomenological approach is employed that focuses on how stories are told and the subjective interpretations of societal members. First, Louisiana's coastal communities hold a significant attachment to place that in many cases has been developing for close to three centuries. For most residents, …
Reassessment Of A Community Mitigation Plan Post-Disaster: A Case Study Of The University Of New Orleans Disaster Resistant University Project, Ashley Garrett
Reassessment Of A Community Mitigation Plan Post-Disaster: A Case Study Of The University Of New Orleans Disaster Resistant University Project, Ashley Garrett
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The following is a case study of the University of New Orleans Disaster Resistant University project. The Disaster Resistant University project involved the creation, adoption, and implementation of an all-hazards campus mitigation plan. On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina struck the City of New Orleans. This disaster caused the need for a reassessment of the original campus mitigation plan. Both the original plan, and its reassessment, are the subject of this case study.