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Losing Resilience in the Fight against Floods in New Orleans

The concept of resilience offers hope that communities can learn from calamities and make effective adaptations to contend with extreme circumstances. A comparative view of resiliency in New Orleans before two epic hurricanes - Betsy in 1965 and Katrina in 2005 -- underscores the importance of preserving social memory of hazardous events and drawing on that memory to maintain resiliency.


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