Comments on: Sun on Katrina’s Lessons for Haiti

By: Lisa Grow Sun

Lisa Grow Sun — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:55:30 +0000

For those who are interested in a more thorough consideration of the effect of disaster mythology on the U.S. legal system of disaster response, you may download my current article on SSRN here:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1565516

By: Caramoan

Caramoan — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:02:26 +0000

I pray for those people who have been injured in Haiti. the earthquake in Haiti is one of the word disasters this year. I just hope that they would be able to recover soon.

By: Nate Oman

Nate Oman — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:08:32 +0000

CNN just aired a report about how the folks in Haiti have been remarkably orderly and how the UN insistence on security for all movements of aid materials has created a bottleneck in terms of getting aid to victims.

By: Lisa Grow Sun

Lisa Grow Sun — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:02:31 +0000

Here’s an interesting overview of some of the sociological evidence as it relates to Katrina: http://tinyurl.com/yaqpzom

My current research is focused on the consequences of disaster mythology for the legal structure of domestic disaster response. I’d be happy to email you a draft paper in a couple of weeks.

By: dave hoffman

dave hoffman — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:45:20 +0000

A really interesting post. Would you mind posting a link to the available sociological evidence?