Before,Now, and After: Assessing Hurricane Katrina Relief |
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| Authors: | Richard Forgette Bryan Dettrey Mark Van Boening David A Swanson |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Political Science, University of Mississippi, 134 Deupree, University, MS 38677, USA;(2) Department of Political Science, University at Buffalo, 413a Park Hall, Buffalo, NY, USA;(3) Department of Economics, University of Mississippi, University, MS, USA;(4) Department of Sociology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA |
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| Abstract: | We assess governmental and non-governmental responses to disasters using primary data of Hurricane Katrina survivors along
the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Non-governmental sources include nonprofit relief groups, faith-based organizations, and survivors’
self-identified social networks. We assess the impact of these governmental and non-governmental relief efforts on survivors’
economic, psychological, physical, and social effects from the disaster. Our results show that social isolation significantly
increases perceptions of disaster disturbance and decreases perceived rates of disaster relief. Additionally, survivors perceive
that social networks provide greater sources of psychological, financial and social disaster relief than government sources.
However, survivors’ social networks decay sharply in the immediate aftermath of a disaster, and they do not appear to fully
recover a year from the disaster. These social networks themselves are not fully resilient to a disaster.
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| Keywords: | Hurricane Katrina Disaster relief Social networks |
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