Freudenburg, William R.; Gramling, Robert; Laska, Shirley; … - In: Social Science Quarterly 90 (2009) 3, pp. 497-515
Although many observers have interpreted Hurricane Katrina's damage to New Orleans as a case of nature striking humans, we draw on the sociological concept of the growth machine to show that much of the damage resulted instead from what humans had done to nature-in the name but not the reality...