Causal Model* of Recovery from Disaster: Post-Katrina New Orleans

Evaluated with Survey Data from Summer 2006, collected in a variety of communities

Frederick Weil, LSU, Baton Rouge

Text Box: Social Capital
Rootedness/Networks
Associational Involvement
Faith-Based Engagement
Social & Inter-Communal Trust

Text Box: Evaluations - Assessments
Future of Community, City.
Reliability of Recovery
& Protections

Text Box: "Reasons"
Personal & Community Issues
Location of Kids
Job Offers
Better Places to Live

Text Box: Community Aid
Communal Organizations
(esp. Faith-Based).
Mutual Community Assistance
(e.g., food, debris removal,
construction).

Text Box: Evaluations - Ratings
Performance of:
Government
Congregational Leaders
Communal Leaders

Text Box: Return/Abandonment
Staying/Leaving;
Desire to Return;
Recovery
(personal, communal, city)

Text Box: Stress
Anxiety, Depression,
Anger, Hopelessness
(feelings & symptoms)

Text Box: Spirituality, Feelings
Spirituality/God's punishment.
Feelings of closeness/conflict with community & loved ones

*Note: Causal order, as shown here, is hypothesized to be plausible, but may differ from this order.