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Session III: Historical and Current Recovery Experience and Status
Pages 5-7

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... Session III: Historical and Current Recovery Experience and Status Mississippi Following Hurricane Camille Mark Smith, Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, provided a historian's perspective on Hurricane Camille, which struck the coast of southern Mississippi in 1969, claiming over 200 lives and injuring nearly 9,000 residents. Smith observed that one way to view Camille is to see it in the context of the historical patterns of segregation in Mississippi and federal attempts to bring about school desegregation there.
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... Other barriers to more effective disaster recovery noted by Smith include the lack of a national recovery strategy, insufficient capacity at the state and local levels to engender more self reliance, and inadequate problem-solving and resource-allocation strategies, which planners can help design when included in the decision making process. Status of Recovery in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina Shirley Laska, professor of sociology and director of the Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology at the University of New Orleans, began her presentation by stating that recovery is very complex and multifaceted and therefore no single assessment can tell the complete story.
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... She thinks such actions are important enough to be thoroughly documented by the research community. The open discussion following the presentations touched upon the challenge of incorporating mitigation measures into recovery strategies, as well as the need to integrate mitigation with environmentally friendly design concepts such as energy-efficient structures.
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