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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 53, Issue 9)A team from Teachers College, Columbia University, has created a companion curriculum to When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Spike Lee's feature-length HBO documentary about New Orleans in the wake of...
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From:Diabetes Care (Vol. 34, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedThe Mississippi River is a small piddling stream as it leaves Lake Itasca, Minnesota. As it meanders southward along its 2,300 mile journey, it is joined by 250 different tributaries that ultimately drain one-third of...
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From:Mathematical Problems in EngineeringPeer-ReviewedFlood protection levee systems are complex, interconnected systems, where failure at one location means failure of the entire system. Levees are formed through various geologic processes and human activities over time...
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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 14, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMany people viewed the extreme disorder after Hurricane Katrina as the failure of a comprehensive system of public works and emergency preparedness they assumed was designed to ensure safety and security. No such system...
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From:Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWith the aim of improving resilience to flooding and increasing preparedness to face levee-breach-induced inundations, this paper presents a methodology for creating a wide database of numerically simulated flooding...
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From:Risk Management (Vol. 53, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedTwo teams of independent experts warn that large sections of the New Orleans levee system being rebuilt by the Army Corps of Engineers will be substantially weaker than before Hurricane Katrina. The Corps is working...
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From:Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Vol. 17, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedByline: W. G. Strupczewski, K. Kochanek, E. Bogdanowicz, I. Markiewicz To access, purchase, authenticate, or subscribe to the full-text of this article, please visit this link:...
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From:The American Midland Naturalist (Vol. 168, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHuman alterations of the environment may interact with natural disturbances to alter the characteristics of biological communities in unexpected ways. I studied vegetation plots in a leveed bottomland hardwood forest at...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 4, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedBackground Empirical observations on how businesses respond after a major catastrophe are rare, especially for a catastrophe as great as Hurricane Katrina, which hit New Orleans, Louisiana on August 29, 2005. We...
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From:Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (Vol. 21, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedLevee-breach-induced flooding occurs occasionally but always causes considerable losses. A serious flood event occurred due to the collapse of a 15 m long levee section in Qianbujing Creek, Shanghai, China, during...
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From:Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (Vol. 15, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn recent years, heavy rainfall conditions have caused disasters around the world. To prevent losses by floods, levees have often been constructed in inundation-prone areas. This study performed reliability analyses for...
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From:Landscape Architecture Frontiers (Vol. 4, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT This project uses western Galveston Island, Texas, USA to explore design options for integrating a projective storm surge barrier system into the coastal landscape. The design creates a comprehensive master...
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From:Canadian Geotechnical Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThe breached levee system at the 17th Street Canal has been independently studied by conducting total and effective stress analyses. Performance of the levee system during the hurricane duration was investigated with...
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From:Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (Vol. 16, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedExperiments were conducted in a bend flume to study the overtopping breaching process and the corresponding overflow rates of river levees constructed with cohesive sediments. The river and land regions were separated...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedRiver embankments are the basic and the oldest measures of protecting areas potentially subjected to flooding, and at the same time pose a serious threat to their environment in the event of damage or failure. The...
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From:Canadian Geotechnical Journal (Vol. 53, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLevee and floodwall seepage models based on two-dimensional (2D) conditions can underpredict landside vertical hydraulic gradients and uplift pressures due to excavations and convex bends. The Sherman Island levee...
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From:Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (Vol. 15, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSince the catastrophic flooding of New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the city's hurricane protection system has been improved to provide protection against a hurricane load with a 1/100 per year exceedance...
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From:African American Review (Vol. 45, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedToday, the people living along the Gulf Coast continue their daily struggle to rebuild, revive, and renew in these United States of America (opening dedication of When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts )...
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From:Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (Vol. 382) Peer-ReviewedFor the levee strengthening project Krachtige IJsseldijken Krimpenerwaard (KIJK) a study has been done to examine all buildings along 10 km of levee. These buildings are an important factor in the design stage,...
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From:Landscape Architecture Frontiers (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedJinan in Shandong Province, China is a city with favorable location--the Yellow River runs through this region from southwest to northeast while the notable world heritage Mount Tai is its south background. The low reach...