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| Title: | Hurricane, Betsy, 1965; A Selective Analysis Of Organizational Response In The New Orleans Area |
| Authors: | Forrest, Thomas R. |
| Keywords: | Hurricane Betsy
New Orleans
Organizational Response
Civil Defense
Red Cross
Southern Bell Telephone And Telegraph Company |
| Issue Date: | 1979 |
| Publisher: | Disaster Research Center |
| Series/Report no.: | Historical & Comparative;5 |
| Description: | Following Hurricane Betsy, the Disaster rsearch Center undertook an
intensive study of some of the organizational responses in the New Orleans
area. From the data gathered in field work, a working paper was prepared
several years later. This was never publicly circulated beyond DRC because
it was intended to be but the first of two or three other extensive case
studies which were to be part of a comparative analysis of community organizational
response to major disaster. For a variety of reasons the other
case studies were never written. However, the New Orleans case study, even
at the present time, still is one of the more detailed ones existing in
disaster literature. It is, therefore, now being published in more public
form, so disaster researchers and historians will have easier access to the
material. The present version is almost identical to the original working
paper except for some minor editing and limited bibliographical updating. As
such, time reference to the organizations and actions described in the monograph
refer to the year 1965 when the hurricane hit Louisiana. Structure
and function of such groups as local Red Cross chapters and civil defense
have changed somewhat in the ensuing decade. |
| URI: | http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/handle/19716/1321 |
| Appears in Collections: | DRC Historical & Comparative Series
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