Essays about: "New Orleans"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words New Orleans.
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1. Procedural Justice for All: Community Participation within Flood Risk Management in New Orleans, Louisiana
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaperAbstract : Traditional grey infrastructure in New Orleans, Louisiana has become increasingly less efficient and adaptable to changing flood risks in the face of climate change and increasing development of flood-prone areas. City planners and decision-makers are beginning to use integrated flood risk management as a tool to increase community flood resiliency, however inequalities between communities’ representation still exist. READ MORE
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2. The Battle of Orléans : The design process of an audio-tactile social game with older late-blind players
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för design (DE)Abstract : This work focuses on the creation of asocial game for older late-blind players,using participatory design.Even though the board game industry isbooming, accessible versions are scarceand since a substantial part of games areprimarily based on visual stimuli they arerather hard or impossible to translate intoa tactile version. READ MORE
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3. Climate Smart Risk Reduction in Urban Areas: A Review of factors for integrating Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation within the context of urban Resilience
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : In recent years, the drawbacks of parallel systems in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) have been acknowledged in professional and academic communities, where the need for integration of the two fields in connection to development has been stressed. In this regard, the concept of resilience as an antithesis of risks has also been considered. READ MORE
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4. For the Love of Water
University essay from KTH/ArkitekturAbstract : By shaping a project inspired by the way water excavates, erodes, and forms land masses, the project seeks to connect people with and give them a new relationship to the river through architecture. My methodology has consisted of exploring form and texture through castings, along with studying the geometries in nature that have resulted from the way water shapes landmasses. READ MORE
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5. Crisis Preperation - The case of Katrina, New Orleans
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : The purpose of this thesis is to understand the importance of crisis preparation for disaster management in New Orleans before hurricane Katrina, and why New Orleans was so badly prepared despite knowing for several years that a disaster of Katrina’s magnitude was much likely to struck at this time. The study is based on secondary literature in the form of articles, web documentaries and investigative reports. READ MORE
