The legacy of Hurricane Mitch
Subtitle: lessons from post-disaster reconstruction in Honduras
By: edited by Marisa O. Ensor.
Contributors: Ensor, Marisa O.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816527847
Subjects: Hurricane Mitch, 1998 -- Honduras; Hurricane damage -- Honduras; Hurricanes -- Honduras; Disaster relief -- Honduras; Hurricane Mitch, 1998 -- Economic aspects -- Honduras
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding Hurricane Mitch : complexity, causality, and the political ecology of disaster / Anthony Oliver-Smith; title: Hurricane Mitch : root causes and responses to the disaster / Bradley E. Ensor and Marisa Olivo Ensor; title: From natural events to "natural" disasters : assessing environmental vulnerability in Honduras / Manuel Winograd; title: A flood of impressions : riding out Mitch and its aftermath / William M. Loker; title: Post-disaster reconstruction : an opportunity for political change / Vilma Elisa Fuentes; title: Gender matters in post-disaster reconstruction / Marisa Olivo Ensor; title: Tin roofs, cinder blocks, and the Salvatrucha Gang : the semiotic-material production of crisis in post-Hurricane Mitch reconstruction / Roberto E. Barrios; title: The legacy of Mitch : conclusions for the new millennium / Marisa Olivo Ensor ... [et al.].