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1. The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Long-Term Human Recovery After Disaster: Reflections From Louisiana Four Years After Hurricane Katrina (RAND, 2009)
   23-10-2009 to civil society, community, drr, hurricane, katrina, local, ngo, recovery, response, us
2. Lower Ninth Ward Neighborhood Empowerment Network Association
   'The Lower Ninth Ward Neighborhood Empowerment Network Association (NENA) was established in the aftermath of Katrina to play a lead role in rebuilding New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward.'
   27-07-2008 to community, empowerment, hurricane, katrina, local, neighborhood, nola, participation, rebuilding, recovery, us
3. Community Resilience in New Orleans East: Deploying the Cultural Toolkit within a Vietnamese-American Community (Mercaturs Center, 2007)
   Paper looking at how after Hurricane Katrina “the neighborhood surrounding the Mary Queen of Vietnam Catholic Church was showing clear signs of recovery” in contrast to the slow pace of recovery in other areas.
   04-09-2007 to community, disaster, hurricane, katrina, northamerica, rebuilding, reconstruction, recovery, us
4. Disastrous Uncertainty: How Government Disaster Policy Undermines Community Rebound (Mercatus Center, Jan. 2007)
   Article outlining how government recovery 'plans tend to ignore the innate abilities of individuals, communities, and businesses to use a variety of resources and ... information to guide their decisions about whether and how to rebuild'.
   04-09-2007 to community, disaster, government, katrina, northamerica, policy, recovery, us
5. The New Orleans Principles (Dec. 2005)
   Guidelines for sustainable design in the reconstruction of New Orleans developed by participants in a charrette on Gulf Coast Reconstruction that was held on November 9-11, 2005, at the U.S. Green Building Council’s annual conference in Atlanta.
   15-12-2005 to community, design, disaster, environment, green, hurricane, katrina, nola, northamerica, rebuilding, reconstruction, recovery, us
6. Katrina's Window: Confronting Concentrated Poverty Across America (Brookings Institute, Oct. 2005)
   A paper arguing "that the conversation should focus special attention on alleviating concentrated urban poverty—the segregation of poor families into extremely distressed neighborhoods."
   10-12-2005 to community, disaster, hurricane, katrina, nola, northamerica, poverty, recovery, urban, us
7. Operation Eden
   Interesting and compelling documentary site about impacts and recovery from Hurricane Katrina along the coast of Louisiana.
   02-10-2005 to community, disaster, hurricane, impact, katrina, nola, northamerica, photos, recovery, resilience, self-organization, us
8. The Uses of Disaster (Harpers, Sept 09, 2005)
   "Essay on the relationship between disasters, authority, and our understanding of human nature went to press as Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast".
   19-09-2005 to community, disaster, hurricane, impact, katrina, nola, northamerica, opportunity, recovery, us
9. Another World Is Here: Dreaming A New New Orleans, Version 1 (WorldChanging, Sept 02, 2005)
   Thoughts about principles for rebuilding a bright, green, safe New Orleans.
   15-09-2005 to architecture, community, design, disaster, housing, hurricane, katrina, planning, rebuilding, reconstruction, recovery
10. "Pattern Language" for Rebuilding New Orleans (Greenbuilding mailing list, Sept 13, 2005)
    Suggestion for using Christopher Alexander's concept of a "Pattern Language" in a wiki-like way to encourage participatory revision of rebuilding plans toward a consensus view or vision.
    13-09-2005 to collaboration, community, design, development, gis, greenbuilding, housing, hurricane, katrina, land-use, mapping, nola, northamerica, participatory, pattern, planning, rebuilding, reconstruction, recovery, us, wikis

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