POST-KATRINA GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF DISASTER SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH

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A Katrina Summit was held November 18–19 at Mississippi State University's Social Science Research Center (SSRC). Major funding was provided by the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station (MIS–605270). Duane Gill, SSRC Associate Director for Research on Society and Environment and Coordinator of the Societal Risk Unit, organized and presided over the Summit. The Summit included eighteen invited scholars (anthropologists, geographers, psychologists, and sociologists) from various U.S. institutions who study disasters, risks, and hazards. Five participants were from New Orleans universities. In alphabetical order, the participants were: Francis Adeola, Lee Clarke, Maurie Cohen, Mike Edelstein, Ann Kos-Edwards, Duane Gill, John Green, Eric Jones, Anthony Ladd, Brent Marshall, John Marszalek, Dennis McSeveney, Steve Meinhold, DeMond Miller, Joanne Nigg, Liesel Ritchie, John Sorensen, and Barbara Vogt. (http://www.ssrc.msstate.edu/katrina/Publications/Guideing%20Principles.pdf)