UNO-CHART Publications

2004- Spring, 2009

Journal Articles

Burley, David, Traber Davis, Pamela Jenkins, and Shirley B. Laska. 2004.  “Losing Ground in South Louisiana.”  Contexts Vol. 3, No. 2: 50-57

Burley, David, Pamela Jenkins, Joanne Darlington and Brian Azcona. Summer 2005. “Loss, Attachment and Place: A Case Study of Grand Isle, Louisiana.” Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture Vol. 5, No.3 (Summer): http://reconstruction.eserver.org/053/burley.shtml

Burley, David, Pamela Jenkins, Shirley Laska and Traber Davis. 2007. "Place Attachment and Environmental Change in Coastal Louisiana." Organization & Environment Vol. 20, No.3: 347-366

Colten, Craig E., Robert W. Kates and Shirley B. Laska.  2008.  “Three Years after Katrina:  Lessons for Community Resilience.”  Environment 50 (5, September): 36-47.

Colten, Craig E. Robert Kates, and Shirley Laska. 2008. “Community  Resilience: Lessons from New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina,” CARRI Research Reports, No. 3.  Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge Nat. Lab.

Day, John W. Jr., Donald F. Boesch, Ellis J. Clairain, G. Paul Kemp, Shirley B. Laska, William J. Mitsch, Kenneth Orth, Hassan Mashriqui, Denise R. Reed, Leonard Shabman, Charles A. Simenstad, Bill  Streever, Robert R. Twilley, Chester C. Watson, John T. Wells, Dennis F. Whigham. 2007. “Restoration of the Miss.  Delta: Lessons From Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.” Science No. 315 (5819, March 23): 1679-1684.

Farris, Monica Teets, Shirley Laska, Michael Wesley and Robert Sternhell. 2006.  “Successful Application of GIS Technology for Post-9/11 Disaster Management: Overcoming Challenges, Capitalizing on Advantages.” International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management Vol. 6, No.4/5/6: 423-439

Freudenburg, William R., Robert Gramling, Shirley Laska and Kai Erikson. 2007. “Katrina: Unlearned Lessons.” Worldwatch Vol. 20, No. 5, (September-October): 14-19

Jenkins, Pamela and Brenda Phillips. 2008. “When Catastrophe Strikes (Battered) Women:  Domestic Violence in the Context of Disaster." National Women’s Studies Jo.. Special Issue on Katrina (V. 20, #3: 49-68.

Jenkins, Pamela, Shirley Laska and Gretchen Williamson. 2007. “Connecting Future Evacuation to Current Recovery:  Saving the Lives of Older People in the Next Catastrophe.” Generations Vol. 31, No. 4 (Winter 2007-2008): 49-52.

Steve Kroll-Smith, Pam Jenkins and Vern Baxter, 2004. “ The Bricoleur and the Possibility of Rescue: First Responders to the Flooding of New Orleans, ”Journal of Public Management and Social Policy Volume 13, Issue 2: Pgs. 5-21.

Kates, R.W., C.E. Colten, S. Laska and S.P. Leatherman. 2006. “Reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina:  A Research Perspective.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  103 (40): 14653-14660.  Reprinted in Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development & Research  (2007) 9 (3).

Kiefer, John, Monica Farris and Natalie Durel. 2006. “Building Internal Capacity for Community Disaster Resiliency by Using a Collaborative Approach: A Case Study of the University of New Orleans Disaster Resistant University Project.” Journal of Emergency Management Vol. 4, No. 2, (March/April): 24-28

Kiefer, John and Robert Montjoy. 2006. “Incrementalism before the Storm: Network Performance for the Evacuation of New Orleans.” Public Administration Review Vol. 66 (Special Issue, Dec.): 120-128.

 Kiefer, John and Lindsey McCormick.  2008.   “From Lessons-Learned to Lessons-Taught:  Post-Katrina Implications for University Hazard-Related Curricula.”  In Jessica Hubbard, ed, Emergency Management in Higher Education: Current Practices and Conversations. Washington, DC :  Public Entity Risk Institute.

Laska, Shirley. (2008)  “’Mother of Rorschachs’: New Orleans Recovery from Hurricane Katrina.” Sociological Inquiry 78 (4): 580-591.

Laska, Shirley. 2004. “What if Hurricane Ivan Had Not Missed New Orleans?” Natural Hazards Observer (Nov.): 5-6. (http://chart.uno.edu/publications/docs/nov4revised.pdf)

Laska, Shirley, George Woodell, Ronald Hagelman, Robert Gramling, Monica Teets Farris, with the assistance of Windell Curole, Becky Boudreaux, Traber Davis and William Kappel. 2005. “At Risk: The Human, Community and Infrastructure Resources of Coastal Louisiana.” Journal of Coastal Research No. 44: 90-111.

Laska, Shirley.  2006.  “Respect for Nature as Cornerstone to Community Resiliency:  The View from Katrina Ground Zero.” Natural Hazards Observer Vol. 31, No. 2: 14-15

Laska, Shirley, and Betty Morrow. 2006.  “Social Vulnerabilities and Hurricane Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster in New Orleans.” Journal of the Marine Technology Society Vol. 40, No. 4: 16-26

Leavitt, William and John Kiefer. 2006. “Infrastructure Interdependency and The Creation Of A Normal Disaster: The Case Of Hurricane Katrina And The City Of New Orleans.” Public Works Management and Policy Vol. 10, No. 4 (April): 306-314.

Mattei, Norma Jean. 2006. “Rebuilding Metro New Orleans After Katrina: Louisiana's New Statewide Building Code.” Means, Methods, and Trends (Winter): http://www.mmtmagazine.org/index_winter_06.html

Nelson, M., R. Ehrenfeucht and S. Laska. 2007. “Planning, Plans, and People:  Professional Expertise, Local Knowledge, and Governmental Action in Post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans.” Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development & Research Vol. 9, No. 3: 23-53.

West, J., K. Peterson, M. Alcina and S. Laska. 2008. “Principles of Participation and Issues of Entry for Participatory Action Research (PAR) in Coastal Community Resiliency Enhancement Collaboration.” Journal for Community Engaged Research and Learning Partnerships Vol. 1, No. 1:

Whitmore, William, Vern Baxter and Shirley Laska 2009. “A Critique of Offshore Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Terminal Policy.”  Ocean & Coastal Management 52 (1):  10-16.

Book Chapters

Burley, David, and Pamela Jenkins. 2006.  “Identity and Place in Coastal Louisiana.” In Michael Benton, Wes Houp, and Melissa Purdue, eds. Community and Ecology, Jai/Elsevier Press. Volume 10 (Research in Urban Policy Series).

Farris, Monica Teets. 2005. “New Partnerships for Homeland Security Policy Development and Application: Government, Private Sector, and Higher Education.” Chapter 8, in William C. Nicholson (ed.), Homeland Security Law and Policy,  Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas.

Jenkins, Pamela, John Kiefer and Shirley Laska.  2008.  “Attending To The  Forgotten:  The Elderly, Collaborative Practice, And Evacuation.” In  Dorothy Norris-Tirell, ed. The Practice of Strategic Collaboration:  From Silos to Action, Washington, DC:  Taylor & Francis.

Jenkins, Pamela and Brenda Phillips.  2009. “Faith Based Efforts for Hurricane Katrina Response and Recovery. ” In Meeting the Needs of Children, Families, and Communities Post-Disaster: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath. Editors: Ryan P. Kilmer, Virginia Gil-Rivas, Richard G. Tedeschi, & Lawrence G. Calhoun. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Kiefer, John and Kristina Peterson. 2009.  “Integrating Disaster Resilience into Traditional Academic Programs”.  In Jessica Hubbard, ed, Emergency Management in Higher Education: Current Practices and Conversations (Volume II). Washington, DC :  Public Entity Risk Institute. 

Reports

Preliminary Briefing Paper on “ Women and Girls in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast: Surviving the Hurricanes, Floods, and Failures.” April 2008.  Developed by Community Activists/Researchers at Ashe Cultural Arts Center. New Orleans, La.

John Kiefer, Pam Jenkins and Shirley Laska. April, 2009. “An Analysis of the Hurricane Gustav City-Assisted Evacuation,” for the City of New Orleans.

John Kiefer, Jay Mancini, Betty Morrow, Hugh Gladwin and Terina Stewart. December, 2008. “Providing Access to Resilience-Enhancing Technologies for Disadvantaged Communities and Vulnerable Populations,” produced by the Community & Regional Resilience Initiative of the Oak Ridge Consortium of Research Universities, Dec., 2008 (http://www.orau.org/university-partnerships/files/The-PARET-Report.pdf).

Laska, Shirley and Robert Gramling with Chad M. Berginnis, Monica Farris, William Freudenburg, Michelle Gremillion, Pam Jenkins, Richard Krajeski, Harriet McCombs, Nancy Mock, Betty Morrow, Brad Ott;  Kristina Peterson, and Henry Taylor. Mar. 5, 2009. “Expanding the Identification and Measurement of the Human Consequences of Disastrous Flooding: Toward the Refinement of the ‘Other Social Effects’ Account.” Vol. I, Economics Appendix, Attachment 2, Pg. 90 (105 pages) of U.S. Army Corps of  Eng.

Working Group for Post-Hurricane Planning for the Louisiana Coast.  2006.  “A New Framework for Planning the Future of Coastal Louisiana after the Hurricanes of 2005.”  A report. University of Maryland. Integration and Application Network, Center for Environmental Science.

Forthcoming

Freudenburg, William R., Robert Gramling, Shirley Laska and Kai Erikson. (spring, 2009) "Disproportionality and Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and The Miss. River-Gulf Outlet,” Soc. Science Quart.

Freudenburg, William R., Robert Gramling, Shirley Laska and Kai Erikson. (fall, 2009) “Organizing Hazards, Engineering Disasters: Improving the Recognition of Political-Economic Factors in the Creation of Disasters” Social Forces.

Freudenburg, William R., Robert Gramling, Shirley Laska.  (August, 2009).  Catastrophes in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and Disasters of Tomorrow.  Washington, D.C.: Island Press.

Jenkins, Pamela. (In press, 2009). “After the Flood: Faith in Exile,” in Peek, Lori and Lynn Weber (Eds.) Dimensions of Displacement: An Intersectional Exploration of Life After Hurricane Katrina. NY: Columbia University Press. In Press 2009

Jenkins, Pamela, John Kiefer and Shirley Laska.  (spring, 2009).  “Attending to the Forgotten: The Elderly, Collaborative Practice, and Evacuation.”  In Dorothy Norris-Tirell, ed. The Practice of Strategic Collaboration:  From Silos to Action.   Washington, D.C.: Taylor & Francis.