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Bankston, L., Barnshaw, J., & Bevc, C. (2010). The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe, California, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Brinkley, D. (2006). The great deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. New York, William Morrow. Chambers, J. (2007). Hurricane Katrina's carbon footprint on US Gulf Coast forests. American Journal of Science, 318 (5853), 1107-1107.
Galea, S., & Brewin, C. (2007). Exposure to hurricane-related stressors and mental illness after Hurricane Katrina, Archives of general psychiatry, 64(12), 1427-1434.
Jacob, B., Mawson, A. & Payton, M. (2008). Disaster Mythology and Fact: Hurricane Katrina and Social Attachment, Public Health Reports, 123 (5): 555-566.
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