US Gulf Coast research and reports

Beyond Recovery: Moving the Gulf Coast Toward a Sustainable Future
In this report, Oxfam America and the Center for American Progress honor the resiliency of the people of the Gulf Coast and propose a plan to restore the region building on existing assets and leveraging incoming federal funding to spark innovation and collaboration, putting local communities to work.
Impact of climate change on response providers and socially vulnerable communities in the US
Federal disaster programs, plans, and policies seldom address climate change or social vulnerability. Homeland security policy could be revised to accommodate climate change impacts on socially vulnerable populations.
One Gulf, resilient Gulf: A plan for coastal community recovery
To continue the way of life along the Gulf Coast and to receive the benefits this region has to offer, there is a critical need for investments to make the natural, man-made, and social environments more resilient.
Resilience and determination
Gulf Coast organizations defending worker and immigrant rights in the aftermath of Katrina
Exposed: Social vulnerability and climate change in the US Southeast
A Portrait of Louisiana
Louisiana Human Development Report 2009
Building Common Ground
How shared attitudes and concerns can create alliances between African-Americans and Latinos in a post-Katrina New Orleans
A Portrait of Mississippi
Mississippi Human Development Report 2009
Mirror on America
How the state of Gulf Coast recovery reflects on us all—Oxfam's report on the status of Gulf Coast recovery three years later.
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