Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore:

Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore brings to life the individual and collective voices of a community: victims, volunteers, and state and federal agencies that came together to rebuild the Bayshore after the Superstorm Sandy in 2013.  After the tumultuous night of October 29, 2012,...

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Main Author: Perkiss, Abigail 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2022]
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Online Access:DE-706
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Summary:Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore brings to life the individual and collective voices of a community: victims, volunteers, and state and federal agencies that came together to rebuild the Bayshore after the Superstorm Sandy in 2013.  After the tumultuous night of October 29, 2012, the residents of Monmouth, Ocean, and Atlantic Counties faced an enormous and pressing question: What to do? The stories captured in this book encompass their answer to that question: the clean-up efforts, the work with governmental and non-governmental aid agencies, and the fraught choices concerning rebuilding. Through a rich and varied set of oral histories that provide perspective on disaster planning, response, and recovery in New Jersey, Abigail Perkiss captures the experience of these individuals caught in between short-term preparedness initiatives that municipal and state governments undertook and the long-term planning decisions that created the conditions for catastrophic property damage. Through these stories, Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore lays bare the ways that climate change and sea level rise are creating critical vulnerabilities in the most densely populated areas in the nation, illuminating the human toll of disaster and the human capacity for resilience
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2022)
Physical Description:1 online resource (144 pages) 13 b&w halftones, 1 map
ISBN:9781501764325
DOI:10.1515/9781501764325

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