J. Steven Picou is the founding director of the USA Coastal Resource & Resiliency Center and an award-winning professor of sociology at the University of South Alabama. He has published more than one hundred and fifty peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and research monographs and is the coeditor of The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe.Keith Nicholls is the senior associate director of the USA Coastal Resource & Resiliency Center and an associate professor of political science at the University of South Alabama. In addition to undertaking numerous other leadership roles, including conducting wide-ranging research on the Exxon Valdez and Deepwater Horizon oil spills, he has recently administered grant-funded activities to increase health-care capacity in disaster-prone areas along the Gulf of Mexico coast.

• Foreword by Lee ClarkeAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Experiencing KatrinaChapter 3. The Long Road HomeChapter 4. Emerging Obstacles to RebuildingChapter 5. Physical Health EffectsChapter 6. Mental Health EffectsChapter 7. Summing Up and Lessons LearnedAppendix 1. The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind ScaleAppendix 2. Survey MethodologyNotesIndex

J. Steven Picou is the founding director of the USA Coastal Resource & Resiliency Center and an award-winning professor of sociology at the University of South Alabama. He has published more than one hundred and fifty peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and research monographs and is the coeditor of The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe.Keith Nicholls is the senior associate director of the USA Coastal Resource & Resiliency Center and an associate professor of political science at the University of South Alabama. In addition to undertaking numerous other leadership roles, including conducting wide-ranging research on the Exxon Valdez and Deepwater Horizon oil spills, he has recently administered grant-funded activities to increase health-care capacity in disaster-prone areas along the Gulf of Mexico coast.

• Foreword by Lee ClarkeAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Experiencing KatrinaChapter 3. The Long Road HomeChapter 4. Emerging Obstacles to RebuildingChapter 5. Physical Health EffectsChapter 6. Mental Health EffectsChapter 7. Summing Up and Lessons LearnedAppendix 1. The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind ScaleAppendix 2. Survey MethodologyNotesIndex

J. Steven Picou is the founding director of the USA Coastal Resource & Resiliency Center and an award-winning professor of sociology at the University of South Alabama. He has published more than one hundred and fifty peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and research monographs and is the coeditor of The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe.Keith Nicholls is the senior associate director of the USA Coastal Resource & Resiliency Center and an associate professor of political science at the University of South Alabama. In addition to undertaking numerous other leadership roles, including conducting wide-ranging research on the Exxon Valdez and Deepwater Horizon oil spills, he has recently administered grant-funded activities to increase health-care capacity in disaster-prone areas along the Gulf of Mexico coast.

• Foreword by Lee ClarkeAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Experiencing KatrinaChapter 3. The Long Road HomeChapter 4. Emerging Obstacles to RebuildingChapter 5. Physical Health EffectsChapter 6. Mental Health EffectsChapter 7. Summing Up and Lessons LearnedAppendix 1. The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind ScaleAppendix 2. Survey MethodologyNotesIndex