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INHERENT RESILIENCE IN NEW ORLEANS
Craig E. Colten Dept. of Geography & Anthropology
Community Resilience
• Resilience (Wilbanks 2008)
– anticipate – reduce – respond – recover
• Inherent Resilience – locally based capacities – independent of formal preparations
REMEM
BER
Af am pop in 1940
Pontchartrain Park
Lakeview Jefferson Parish
New Orleans Public Library
Formal resilience included forecasting, local evacuation, and coordinated government agency responses.
City schools served as hurricane evacuation shelters.
New Orleans Public Library
Extensive flooding followed Betsy’s passage in 1965.
Corps of Engineers
Lower 9th Ward
Differential Levee Heights 1965
African Americans
Islenos
Colten 2011
Shelters and flooding 1965.
Colten 2011
Flooding 1965 and African American population 1960.
Colten 2011
(2000)
Greater New Orleans Community Data Center
Flood Footprint 2005
2005 – No neighborhood shelters, loss of resilience with only one “shelter of last resort.”
Zaninetti & Colten, forthcoming
Conclusions
• Marginalized communities survived despite inequities, sustained by inherent resilience
• Structural flood protection and formalized planning did not incorporate inherent resilience capacities and undermined local resilience
• Many minorities have relocated since 2005 flooding eroding inherent resilience
Acknowledgements
• Research assistance Jenny Hay and Alexandra Giancarlo
• Research funding from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
• Graphic credits: New Orleans Public Library, LSU Earth Scan Laboratory, Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Colten 2011, Zaninetti and Colten (forthcoming)