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While wandering New York City's asphalt streets and peering up at its towers of steel and glass, or while driving the parkways and roads that crisscross the metropolitan area, it is easy to forget that, as little as a hundred years ago, the city was situated smack in the middle of tidal wetlands. By one account, some 300 square miles of wetland—an area about a quarter of the size of Rhode Island—covered the ground within a twenty-five-mile radius of City Hall in Lower Manhattan. It was easy to forget, that is, until Hurricane Sandy came roaring through in 2012 and the sea returned to its old haunt.

While wandering New York City's asphalt streets and peering up at its towers of steel and glass, or while driving the parkways and roads that crisscross the metropolitan area, it is easy to forget that, as little as a hundred years ago, the city was situated smack in the middle of tidal wetlands. By one account, some 300 square miles of wetland-an area about a quarter of the size of Rhode Island-covered the ground within a twenty-five-mile radius of City Hall in Lower Manhattan. It was easy to forget, that is, until Hurricane Sandy came roaring through in 2012 and the sea returned to its old haunt. Adapted from the source document.

Cover -- CONTENTS -- Introduction CINDY ERMUS -- Satire and Politics in the New Orleans Flood of 1849 GREG O'BRIEN -- Epidemics, Empire, and Eradication Global Public Health and Yellow Fever Control in New Orleans URMI ENGINEER WILLOUGHBY -- The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror Trauma, History, and the Great Storm of 1900 ANDY HOROWITZ -- The 1928 Hurricane in Florida and the Wider Caribbean CHRISTOPHER M. CHURCH -- Swamp Things Invasive Species as Environmental Disaster in the Gulf South ABRAHAM H. GIBSON and CINDY ERMUS -- Political-Ecological Emergence of Space and Vulnerability in the Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans ROBERTO E. BARRIOS -- Katrina Is Coming to Your City Storm- and Flood-Defense Infrastructures in Risk Society KEVIN FOX GOTHAM -- Afterword TED STEINBERG -- Contributors -- Index.