Perilous place, powerful storms
Subtitle: hurricane protection in coastal Louisiana
By: Craig E. Colten.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604732382
Subjects: Hurricane protection -- Louisiana -- Evaluation; Flood control -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Evaluation; Levees -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History; Levees -- Mississippi River; Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: City at risk; title: Season of the storms; title: Lake Pontchartrain and vicinity hurricane protection; title: 1990; title: Protecting the delta, the west bank, and the coast; title: Developments to the eve of Katrina, 1990 2005; title: Conclusions.