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Books on Hurricane Maria and Puerto Rico

The Geography of Risk: Epic Storms, Rising Seas, and the Cost of America's Coasts by Gilbert M. Gaul
Call Number: QC945 .G28 2019
ISBN: 0374160805
Publication Date: 2019-09-03
Americans have built $3 trillion worth of property in some of the riskiest places on earth: barrier islands and coastal floodplains. Federal subsidies, tax breaks, low-interest loans, grants, and government flood insurance have shifted the risk of life at the beach from private investors to public taxpayers. These federal incentives, Gaul argues, have resulted in one of the worst planning failures in American history, and the costs to taxpayers are reaching unsustainable levels. The Geography of Risk outlines the clash between economic interests and nature while looking at the heated politics of regulators and developers.
How the US Creates Sh*thole Countries by Cynthia McKinney (Editor); Mike Gravel (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0999874713
Publication Date: 2018-11-15
The book addresses the legitimacy of US interventions in other countries' domestic affairs in pursuit of its "interests", which it then regards as matters of national security? The countries profiled are sample instances of American foreign policies applied across the globe to comparable destructive effect: Haiti, El Salvador, Democratic Republic of Congo, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and yes, our own Puerto Rico.This book presents fresh analyses of the old stereotypes and narratives that wither under scrutiny.
Tossed to the Wind: Stories of Hurricane Maria Survivors by Nancy Rosado; Maria T. Padilla
ISBN: 1683401506
Publication Date: 2020-04-07
. In Tossed to the Wind, María Padilla and Nancy Rosado interview Puerto Ricans from all walks of life who now live in Orlando and Kissimmee, Florida, picking up the pieces of their world after Hurricane Maria.

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Weathering the Storm Conference, November 30, 2017
Academics and experts from across the nation gathered at Brooklyn College on Nov. 30 for “Weathering the Storm: The Caribbean, Puerto Rico, and the Diasporic Communities,” a daylong conference on the effects of and responses to the
2017 Hurricane.Maria on Puerto Rico.

Visualizando El Apoyo Mutuo: Solidaridad en Acción is an interactive story map created by Jacqueline Villarrubia and Roberto Vélez-Vélez that uses images, audio, and text to highlight the Centros de Apoyo Mutuo in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. ADD LINK WHEN AVAILABLE

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"Weathering the Storm;" Honorable Carmen Yulín Cruz Soto, mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico keynote address at Brooklyn College, Nov. 30, 2017

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