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Promoting Urban Resilience under Federalism Promoting Urban Resilience under Federalism
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Mitigating Disasters at the Federal Level Mitigating Disasters at the Federal Level
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Constructing Structural Protection Constructing Structural Protection
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Collective Contestation: Save Our Wetlands v. Early Rush Collective Contestation: Save Our Wetlands v. Early Rush
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Mailing Civic Discontent: Individual Actions against Levee Protection Mailing Civic Discontent: Individual Actions against Levee Protection
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Individual Relief and Mitigated Blight in Post-Disaster Recovery Individual Relief and Mitigated Blight in Post-Disaster Recovery
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Emergency Preparation at the State Level: The Case of Louisiana Emergency Preparation at the State Level: The Case of Louisiana
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Shrinking Tax Base by Popular Demand: Homestead Exemption Shrinking Tax Base by Popular Demand: Homestead Exemption
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Hazardous Development: Coastal Restoration without Emergency Preparedness Hazardous Development: Coastal Restoration without Emergency Preparedness
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Weak Foundations: Ex Post Building Code Adoption in Louisiana Weak Foundations: Ex Post Building Code Adoption in Louisiana
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Internalizing Risk at the Local Level: Sustained Vulnerabilities in New Orleans Internalizing Risk at the Local Level: Sustained Vulnerabilities in New Orleans
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Recipe for Disaster: Accelerated Development amid Growing Poverty Recipe for Disaster: Accelerated Development amid Growing Poverty
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Federalizing Disaster: Hurricane Betsy and the Creation of a National Flood Insurance Program Federalizing Disaster: Hurricane Betsy and the Creation of a National Flood Insurance Program
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Failure to Regulate Vulnerable Properties: The Passage and Repeal of the Biggert-Waters Act Failure to Regulate Vulnerable Properties: The Passage and Repeal of the Biggert-Waters Act
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Compensating Vulnerable Properties: Saint Bernard Parish v. United States Compensating Vulnerable Properties: Saint Bernard Parish v. United States
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Conclusion Conclusion
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2 Federalism and the Construction of Protection from Betsy to Katrina
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Published:August 2021
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Abstract
Chapter 2 builds a historical narrative on how New Orleans’s civic actors influenced policies and politics around emergency management at the federal, state, and local level. This chapter focuses on the ways in which citizen requests have influenced the federal, state, and local governments. This has been done in two ways. First, civic actors urged the federal government to pursue structural solutions by constructing levees and drainage systems around flood-prone areas. Through browsing these documents, we can get a glimpse of how the perception of natural disasters had been constructed prior to Katrina’s landfall. To government officials and residents alike, disasters were considered as infrequent disruptions from which the city of New Orleans had to be protected, and the protection was mainly provided by the federal government’s engineering and insurance programs. The expanding protection instilled residents with an elevated sense of security and justified rebuilding in vulnerable regions. Second, because of the federal protection, the Louisiana and New Orleans governments have developed policies that minimize investment in long-term hazard mitigation for the sake of economic development.
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