Katrina Resources


Independent Reports and Research


The Greater New Orleans Community Data Center
(http://www.gnocdc.org/) in collaboration with the Brookings Institute has just released what they call the Katrina Index (http://www.gnocdc.org/KI/KatrinaIndex.pdf), which is a survey of the economic and social recovery of the New Orleans area. It tracks housing, population, infrastructure, and the economy, and will be issued on a monthly basis.

Katrina Resources: Faculty Expertise and Roundtable White Papers from College of Architecture at Texas A&M University
http://archone.tamu.edu/katrina/Resources/WhitePapers.aspx
The faculty of Texas A&M's College of Architecture offers their expertise to search for holistic and economically viable solutions to a variety of issues created in the aftermath of Katrina.

Children's Defense Fund
http://www.childrensdefense.org/
Report on mental health of Katrina kids.

National Academies Press, Structural Performance of the New Orleans Hurricane Protection System During Hurricane Katrina: Letter Report
http://fermat.nap.edu/books/0309101530/html/1.html

American Society of Civil Engineers: Data Report on the Performance of the New Orleans Levee Systems in Hurricane Katrina
http://www.asce.org/static/hurricane/orleans_report.cfm

Katrina and the Built Environment: Spatial and Social Impacts from Brown University
http://s4.brown.edu/katrina/index.html
Demographic and sociological aspects of displacement and rebuilding as well as perspectives from environmental science and ecology.