Brookings Institution / by Amy Liu and Allison Plyer http://tinyurl.com/2euno4l Five years following Hurricane Katrina—a tragedy compounded and made more complex by the Great Recession and the current Gulf oil spill—new evidence shows that greater New Orleans is emerging as a healthier, more resilient region. Yet, this year’s New Orleans Index at Five, which combines … Continue reading »
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Hurricane Katrina: The Five Year Anniversary
Insurance Information Institute / by Robert P. Hartwig and Claire Wilkinson http://www.iii.org/assets/docs/pdf/1007Katrina5Anniversary.pdf …Five years later, Hurricane Katrina remains the largest single loss event in the history of the global insurance industry, causing an estimated $41.1 billion in insured damage ($45.1 billion in 2009 dollars) and 1.7 million claims across six states. Louisiana and Mississippi were … Continue reading »
Charging Ahead: Battery Electric Vehicles and the Transformation of an Industry
Deloitte Development LLC / By Lei Zhou, Jeffrey W. Watts, Masato Sase and Atsuyuki Miyata http://tinyurl.com/26v9bde …Environmental sensitivities have begun to drive demand for an alternative to the conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles.1 Among the front-runner technologies: the Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV), a zero-emission vehicle. Because BEVs consume electricity, replacing ICE cars with BEVs … Continue reading »
Search and Rescue Five Years Later: Saving People Still Trapped in Katrina’s Ruins
Unity Abandoned Buildings Outreach Team http://unitygno.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/UNITY_AB-Report_August2010.pdf The Abandoned Buildings Outreach Team of UNITY of Greater New Orleans has released a detailed report of the Team’s findings and recommendations from 18 months of combing the city’s abandoned buildings in search of elderly and disabled survivors of Hurricane Katrina, “Search and Rescue Five Years Later: Saving People … Continue reading »
Hurricane Katrinia: Are We Better Prepared Five Years Later?
Institute for Business and Home Safety / by Wanda Edwards, P.E. and Candace J. Iskowitz http://disastersafety.org/resource/resmgr/PDFs/HUR_081710_katrina-anniversa.pdf In recognition of the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the Institute for Business & Home safety (IBHs) analyzed the quality of building codes in place along the Gulf Coast before and after the storm. While there have been positive … Continue reading »
Modern Energy Access to All in Rural India: An Integrated Implementation Strategy
Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / by Balachandra Patil http://tinyurl.com/2dnyzk9 Expanding energy access to the rural population of India presents a critical challenge for its government. The presence of about 364 million people without access to electricity and about 726 million who rely on biomass for cooking indicate both the failure of past policies … Continue reading »
