Loss of Life Caused by the Flooding of New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina: Analysis of the Relationship Between Flood Characteristics and Mortality

N. Jonkman, Sebastiaan; Maaskant, Bob; Boyd, Ezra; L. Levitan, Marc

doi:10.1111/j.1539-6924.2008.01190.x

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Loss of Life Caused by the Flooding of New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina: Analysis of the Relationship Between Flood Characteristics and Mortality

Published in Risk Analysis • Jan 31, 2009

Authors:

Sebastiaan N. Jonkman

Bob Maaskant

Ezra Boyd

Abstract

In this article a preliminary analysis of the loss of life caused by Hurricane Katrina in the New Orleans metropolitan area is presented. The hurricane caused more than 1,100 fatalities in the state of Louisiana. A preliminary data set that gives information on the recovery locations and individual ...

Subject

Flood myth

Metropolitan area

Flooding (psychology)

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