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Perilous place, powerful storms : hurricane protection in coastal Louisiana /

Title
Perilous place, powerful storms : hurricane protection in coastal Louisiana / Craig E. Colten.
Author
Colten, Craig E.
Publication
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2009.

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Description
x, 195 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Flood control > New Orleans > Evaluation
  • Hurricane Katrina, 2005
  • Hurricane protection > Louisiana > Evaluation
  • Levees > Mississippi River
  • Levees > New Orleans > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction -- City at risk -- Season of the storms -- Lake Pontchartrain and vicinity hurricane protection, 1970-1990 -- Protecting the delta, the west bank, and the coast -- Developments to the eve of Katrina, 1990 2005 -- Conclusions.
ISBN
  • 9781604732382 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1604732385 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2008047085
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library