Chamlee-Wright, E. and V. H. Storr, Eds. (2010). The political economy of Hurricane Katrina and community rebound. New thinking in political economy. Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar.
Focusing on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, this edited volume critically examines public policies which led to both successes and failures in post-Katrina disaster response and long-term community recovery. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative analysis, and theoretically informed by the Virginia School of Political Economy, the contributors to this book seek to understand the community recovery process through analysing on-the-ground perspectives of first-responders, residents, business owners, musicians, teachers, school administrators, and other ordinary citizens. The authors explore the problems of social coordination presented by disasters, and both the positive potential and the limitations of public policy in overcoming the difficult challenges of disaster response and recovery.