Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore / / Abigail Perkiss.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Perkiss, Abigail,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (144 p.) :; 13 b&w halftones, 1 map
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Frankenstorm --; 2. “Please, Sandy, No More” --; 3. “Everything Is Gone” --; 4. “You Can’t Wash Away Hope” --; 5. A Model of Disaster Preparedness --; 6. “There Is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster” --; Epilogue: New Jersey Strong --; Appendix A: List of Interviews --; Appendix B: Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey’s Forgotten Shore: An Origins Story --; Appendix C: Student Reflections --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501764325; 9783110751826; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110994551; 9783110994520
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501764325
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Abigail Perkiss.

Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore brings to life the individual and collective voices of a community: victims, volunteers, and state and federal agencies that came together to rebuild the Bayshore after the Superstorm Sandy in 2013. After the tumultuous night of October 29, 2012, the residents of Monmouth, Ocean, and Atlantic Counties faced an enormous and pressing question: What to do? The stories captured in this book encompass their answer to that question: the clean-up efforts, the work with governmental and non-governmental aid agencies, and the fraught choices concerning rebuilding. Through a rich and varied set of oral histories that provide perspective on disaster planning, response, and recovery in New Jersey, Abigail Perkiss captures the experience of these individuals caught in between short-term preparedness initiatives that municipal and state governments undertook and the long-term planning decisions that created the conditions for catastrophic property damage. Through these stories, Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore lays bare the ways that climate change and sea level rise are creating critical vulnerabilities in the most densely populated areas in the nation, illuminating the human toll of disaster and the human capacity for resilience.