craig colten - "inherent resilience in new orleans"
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Building Resilience Workshop III: 2012TRANSCRIPT
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INHERENT RESILIENCE IN NEW ORLEANS
Craig E. Colten Dept. of Geography & Anthropology
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Community Resilience
• Resilience (Wilbanks 2008)
– anticipate – reduce – respond – recover
• Inherent Resilience – locally based capacities – independent of formal preparations
REMEM
BER
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Af am pop in 1940
Pontchartrain Park
Lakeview Jefferson Parish
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New Orleans Public Library
Formal resilience included forecasting, local evacuation, and coordinated government agency responses.
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City schools served as hurricane evacuation shelters.
New Orleans Public Library
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Extensive flooding followed Betsy’s passage in 1965.
Corps of Engineers
Lower 9th Ward
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Differential Levee Heights 1965
African Americans
Islenos
Colten 2011
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Shelters and flooding 1965.
Colten 2011
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Flooding 1965 and African American population 1960.
Colten 2011
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(2000)
Greater New Orleans Community Data Center
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Flood Footprint 2005
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2005 – No neighborhood shelters, loss of resilience with only one “shelter of last resort.”
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Zaninetti & Colten, forthcoming
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Conclusions
• Marginalized communities survived despite inequities, sustained by inherent resilience
• Structural flood protection and formalized planning did not incorporate inherent resilience capacities and undermined local resilience
• Many minorities have relocated since 2005 flooding eroding inherent resilience
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Acknowledgements
• Research assistance Jenny Hay and Alexandra Giancarlo
• Research funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
• Graphic credits: New Orleans Public Library, LSU Earth Scan Laboratory, Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Colten 2011, Zaninetti and Colten (forthcoming)