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Title Taking chances : the coast after Hurricane Sandy / edited by Karen M. O'Neill and Daniel J. Van Abs.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Transformational Event, Just Another Storm, or Something in Between? / Karen M. O’Neill, Daniel J. Van Abs, and Robert B. Gramling -- Part One: The Storm. 1. Hurricane Sandy from Meteorological and Climatological Perspectives / Steven G. Decker and David A. Robinson -- 2: A Tough Move to Make: Lessons Learned from Emergency Evacuations in Coastal Connecticut during Hurricane Sandy / Daniel Baldwin Hess and Brian W. Conley -- Part Two: The Days after the Storm. 3: Overlooked Impacts of Hurricane Sandy in the Caribbean / Adelle Thomas -- 4: Polling Post-Hurricane Sandy: The Transformative Personal and Political Impact of the Hurricane in New Jersey / Ashley A. Koning and David P. Redlawsk -- 5: Ecological Injury and Responses to Hurricane Sandy: Physical Damage, Avian and Food Web Responses, and Anthropogenic Attempts to Aid Ecosystem Recovery in New Jersey Estuaries / Joanna Burger and Larry Niles -- 6: Surviving Sandy: Identity and Cultural Resilience in a New Jersey Fishing Community / Angela Oberg, Julia A. Flagg, Patricia M. Clay, Lisa L. Colburn, and Bonnie McCay -- Part Three: Planning for Change? 7: Green Gentrification and Hurricane Sandy: The Resilience of the Green Growth Machine around Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal / Kenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. Lewis -- 8: Boardwalks Reborn: Disaster and Renewal on the Jersey Shore / Mark Alan Hewitt -- Chapter 9: A Sure/Shore Thing? Tourism Recovery in New York and New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy / Briavel Holcomb -- 10: Local Fiscal Impacts of Hurricane Sandy / Clinton J. Andrews -- 11: Local Responses to Hurricane Sandy: Heterogeneous Experiences and Mismatches with Federal Policy / Mariana Leckner, Melanie McDermott, James K. Mitchell, and Karen M. O’Neill -- 12. Water Utilities: Storm Preparedness and Restoration / Daniel J. Van Abs -- 13: Impact of Extreme Events on the Electric Power Sector: Challenges, Vulnerabilities, Institutional Responses, and Planning Implications from Hurricane Sandy / Frank A. Felder and Shankar Chandramowli -- Conclusion: Emerging Responses to Life on the Urbanized Coast after Hurricane Sandy / Daniel J. Van Abs and Karen M. O’Neill -- Notes on Contributors.
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Subject Hurricane Sandy (2012)
Hurricane Sandy, 2012.
Hurricanes -- Environmental aspects -- Atlantic States.
Hurricanes -- Environmental aspects.
Hurricanes.
Coastal zone management -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.)
Coastal zone management.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author O'Neill, Karen M., 1959- editor.
Van Abs, Daniel J., editor.
Other Form: Print version: Taking chances. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016] 9780813573779 (DLC) 2015032499 (OCoLC)927241463
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