TY  - BOOK
AU  - Angel,Ronald J.
AU  - Bell,Holly
AU  - Beausoleil,Julie
AU  - Lein,Laura
TI  - Community Lost: The State, Civil Society, and Displaced Survivors of Hurricane Katrina 
SN  - 9780511843792 (ebook)
AV  - HV551.4.G85 C66 2012
U1  - 976/.044 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Hurricane Katrina, 2005
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - Neither government programs nor massive charitable efforts responded adequately to the human crisis that was Hurricane Katrina. In this study, the authors use extensive interviews with Katrina evacuees and reports from service providers to identify what helped or hindered the reestablishment of the lives of hurricane survivors who relocated to Austin, Texas. Drawing on social capital and social network theory, the authors assess the complementary, and often conflicting, roles of FEMA, other governmental agencies and a range of non-governmental organizations in addressing survivors' short- and longer-term needs. While these organizations came together to assist with immediate emergency needs, even collectively they could not deal with survivors' long-term needs for employment, affordable housing and personal records necessary to rebuild lives. Community Lost provides empirical evidence that civil society organizations cannot substitute for an efficient and benevolent state, which is necessary for society to function
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511843792
ER  -