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Investigating Recovery Patterns in Post Disaster Urban Settings: Utilizing Geospatial Technology to Understand Post-Hurricane Katrina Recovery in New Orleans, Louisiana

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Geospatial Techniques in Urban Hazard and Disaster Analysis

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Abstract

This chapter seeks to improve upon current disaster research in the discipline of geography by expanding the geographic study of hazards beyond the event and into the recovery process. A review of current disaster based literature in geography illustrates a lack of comprehensive research by geographers in the arena of disaster recovery. It appears as if established researchers in this field are content to focus their efforts on the issues preceding disasters, as well as the immediate response to, and physical results of disaster events. The responsibility of understanding the topic of reco very has thus far been the primary focus of researchers in the fields of social science and public administration. This study will utilize Geographic Information Technology (GIT) to assess the level of recovery, determine the most appropriate scale to study the spatial aspects of recovery, and identify spatial indicators of recovery in New Orleans, Louisiana as of February 2008.

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Abbreviations

AKC:

– Akaike Information Criterion

ANOVA:

– Analysis of Variance

CMUA:

– Complex Multiple Utility Assignments

DEM:

– Digital Elevation Model

ESDA:

– Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis

ESRI® :

– Environmental Systems Research Institute

FEMA:

– Federal Emergency Management Agency

GIS:

– Geographic Information System

GIT:

– Geographic Information Technology

GNOCDC:

– Greater New Orleans Community Data Center

GWR:

– Geographically Weighted Regression

LiDAR:

– Light Detection and Ranging

LUCIS:

– Land Use Conflict Identification Strategy

MOGA:

– Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm

MUA:

– Multiple Utility Assignments

NORPC:

– New Orleans Regional Planning Commission

RI:

– Recovery Indicators

SPAC:

– Spatial Autocorrelation

SRI:

– Spatial Recovery Index

SUA:

– Single Utility Assignments

UNOP:

– Unified New Orleans Plan

USACE:

– United States Army Corps of Engineers

USPS:

– United State Postal Service

VI:

– Vulnerability Indicators

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  1. Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, 70803, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

    Steven M. Ward & Michael Leitner

  2. Research Institute for Environment, Energy and Economics, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA

    John Pine

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  1. Dept. Geography, Texas State University, University Drive 601, San Marcos, 78666-4616, U.S.A.

    Pamela S. Showalter

  2. Dept. Geography, Texas State University, University Drive 601, San Marcos, 78666-4616, U.S.A.

    Yongmei Lu

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Ward, S.M., Leitner, M., Pine, J. (2009). Investigating Recovery Patterns in Post Disaster Urban Settings: Utilizing Geospatial Technology to Understand Post-Hurricane Katrina Recovery in New Orleans, Louisiana. In: Showalter, P., Lu, Y. (eds) Geospatial Techniques in Urban Hazard and Disaster Analysis. Geotechnologies and the Environment, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2238-7_17

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