KATRINA RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH OF THE KATRINA
AFTERMATH
Staybridge Suites, 501 Tchoupitoulas Street
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
November 3-4, 2006
Friday, November 3
Breakfast in Staybridge Suites Restaurant
is served 6:30 to 9:00 am (Complimentary with hotel registration)
8:00 am through the morning:
Registration
8:30 am Introductions and Conference
Moderator -
Edd Hauser
8:50 am Risk Panel
Evacuation Decisions and
Post Katrina Evacuation Experiences David Banks
Family Resiliency
Resulting from Katrina and Rita
Betsy Garrison/Diane Sasser
Financial Risk and
Propensity to Cooperate
Rick Wilson
Business Decisions based
on Risk Perception
Nina Lam
10:20 am Morning Break
10:40 am Social Vulnerability Panel 1
Documentation of Displaced
Residents Susan Sterett
Population Influx of
Evacuees to Baton Rouge
Rick Weil
Displacement of Social
Networks
Megan Underhill
11:50 am Lunch (provided)
12:30 pm Luncheon Speaker:
Col. Terry
J. Ebbert,
Director of Homeland
Security, City of New Orleans
1:30 pm Disaster Aid Panel
Users Perceptions of the
Coordinated Assistance Network - Jennifer Reich
Race and Giving
Erzo
Luttmer
Logistics Issues following
Katrina
Jose Holguin-Veras &
Bethany Brown
Impact on Charitable
Giving Catherine Eckel
3:00 pm Afternoon Break
3:20 pm
Social Vulnerability Panel 2
Communication Networks &
Technology to Rebuild Social Capital
Marya Doerfel
Collective Efficacy and
the Role of Community Networks
for
Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief
Angela Chen
Collected and Fractured
Families
Katherine Browne
4:30 pm Adjourn Dinner on your own
Saturday, November 4
Breakfast in Staybridge Suites Restaurant
is available -
7:30 to 10:00 am (Complimentary with hotel registration)
8:30 am Economic and Emotional
Outcomes Panel
Personal and Professional
Communities after Hurricane Katrina Robert Kraut & Irina Shklovski
(presented by Sherry Elmes)
Ethical Tradeoffs of
Post-Katrina Tourism Part 1
& Part 2
Jack Rozdilsky
Psychological Functioning
of Children Post Hurricane Katrina
Mary L. Kelley
Collecting Economic Impact
Data Implications for Impacted Areas
Jamie Kruse
10:00 am Morning Break
10:20 am Infrastructure and Recovery
Panel
Damage Assessments and Recovery in Low Income Neighborhoods
Andrew
Smyth
Electric Power Delivery
System Damage from Rita and Katrina
Dorothy Reed
Performance of Buried
Urban Infrastructure in Disasters Erez Allouche
Evaluating Preferences for
Rebuilding Plans after Katrina
Craig Landry
Planning and Design in
Recovery for Mississippis Gulf Coast
Gavin Smith
12:10 pm
Future NSF Disaster Studies of Katrina and other Hurricanes -
Tom Birkland
12:30 pm Symposium Summary
John Lefante
12:50 pm Adjourn
Center
For Transportation Policy Studies
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd., McEniry 126, Charlotte, NC 28223
Phone: (704) 687-5953, Fax: (704) 687-5948
Email: ehauser@uncc.edu
UNC-Charlotte Related Departments
Geography and Earth Sciences ·
Geography Masters Program
Public Policy PhD Program · William States Lee College of Engineering
Civil Engineering ·
Urban Institute

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