Digital Resources
See this google drive folder which includes:
Urban Land Institute's November 2005 report A Rebuilding Strategy...
Bring New Orleans Back January 2006 Action Plan for New Orleans: The New American City
FEMA Flood Insurance Studies of 1983 and 2016 and an interactive comparison of the resulting maps
Risk Management Solutions 2006 report Flood Risk in New Orleans Implications for Future Management and Insurability
Also see these sites:
Hurricane Storm Damage Risk Reduction System: https://www.floodauthority.org/the-system/hurricane-storm-damage-risk-reduction-system/
As you read Woods's 2005 article Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? Katrina, trap economics, and the rebirth of the blues, contrast his blues epistemology with the epistemology of Wisner et al.'s At Risk (Access model and Pressure and Release model). I suggest crafting one body paragraph on similarities between Woods and Wisner et al., and one paragraph emphasizing important departures that Woods makes in his blues epistemology. I frame this as "departures" because Woods earned a PhD in geography studying in the structuralism epistemology.
This writing response should cite the class readings, but does not need to involve any further outside research.
The best writing responses will make use of all of the elements of blues epistemology as described by Woods.
Lamb, Z. (2020). Connecting the Dots: The Origins, Evolutions, and Implications of the Map that Changed Post-Katrina Recovery Planning in New Orleans. In S. Laska (Ed.), Louisiana’s Response to Extreme Weather: A Coastal State’s Adaptation Challenges and Successes (pp. 65–91).
We are reading this article as we prepare to design our own hazard maps, consider three main questions:
1. Can maps be considered a form of socially-constructed knowledge, created in a social context of unequal political economy?
2. Can maps influence the material world, e.g. through formation of cultural landscapes or through influencing people’s behavior?
3. Do you think any ethical issues arise in cartography / maps related to natural hazards?