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What’s left to say about Katrina?

Eric A. Feldman and Chelsea Fish (Penn): Natural Disasters, Nuclear Disasters, and Global Governance. Robert R. M. Verchick (Loyola) and Paul Govind (Macquarie): Natural Disaster and Climate Change; and Disaster Law and Climate Change. A decade after Katrina, are America’s flood estimates dangerously wrong? Shelby Hartman on the Lower Ninth Ward, ten years after Katrina (and more). What’s left to say about Katrina? Alexander Zaitchik on building climate justice from the wreckage of Hurricane Katrina. Where Black Lives Matter began: Jamelle Bouie on how Hurricane Katrina exposed our nation’s amazing tolerance for black pain. Is post-Katrina gentrification saving New Orleans or ruining it? Jazz musician Terence Blanchard tells the story of his hometown ten years after Hurricane Katrina. Malcolm Gladwell on what social scientists learned from Katrina. Nick Stockton on how no one is ready for the next Katrina. David Roberts on how Hurricane Katrina showed what “adapting to climate change” looks like.