December 22, 2012
home course syllabi vita selected publications research in the news peer listener training for the deepwater horizon BP disaster peer listener training manual PDF (may be slow to load) speaker's forum photo gallery Patricia A. Picou Dr. Picou's University of South Alabama Page contact the webmaster		Selected Publications The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Trust in Government     Race, Social Capital, and the Health Impacts of Katrina: Evidence from Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast     On Disasters - The BP Catastrophe and Sociological Practice - Mitigating Community Impacts through Peer-Listener Training     The BP Disaster as an Exxon Valdez Rerun     The Exxon Valdez and BP Oil Spills: A Comparison of Initial Social and Psychological Impacts     Hurricane Katrina and Mental Health: A Research Note on Mississippi Gulf Coast Residents     When the Solution Becomes the Problem: The Impacts of Adversarial Litigation on Survivors of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill     Katrina as a Natech Disaster: Toxic Contamination and Long-Term Risks for Residents of New Orleans     Community Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: A Synthesis and Elaboration of Social Science Research     Disaster Recovery as Translational Applied Sociology: Transforming Chronic Community Distress     Disasters in the Twenty-First Century: Modern Destruction and Future Instruction     Review Essay: The Shifting Sands of Post-Katrina Disaster Sociology   Postnormal Science, Precautionary Principle, and Worst Cases: The Challenge of Twenty-First Century Catastrophes   Amicus Brief for U.S. Supreme Court   Social Impacts of Hurricane Katrina on Displaced K-12 Students     Environmental Justice and Toxic Exposure: Toward a spatial model of physical health and psychological well-being     Environmental Risk Perceptions and the White Male Effect: Pollution Concerns among Deep-South Coastal Residents     Ecological Disaster as Contextual Transformation: Environmental Values in a Renewable Resource Community     The Exxon Valdez Disaster as Localized Environmental Catastrophe: Dissimilarities to Risk Society Theory     Community Impacts of Hurricane Ivan: A Case Study of Orange Beach, Alabama     Technological Disaster Litigation Stress, and the Use of Alternate Dispute Resolution Mechanisms     Social and Cultural Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill     Disaster, Litigation, and the Corrosive Community     Coping with Technological Disaster: An Application of the Conservation of Resources Model to the Exxon Valdez Oil Spil     Terrorism as Disaster: Selected Commonalities and Long-Term Recovery For 9/11 Survivors     The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill and Chronic Psychological Stress     The "Talking Circle" as Sociological Practice: Cultural Transformation of Chronic Disaster Impacts     Contemporary Conceptions of Environmental Risk: Implications for Resource Management and Policy     Social Disruption and the Valdez Oil Spill: Alaskan Natives In a Natural Resource Community     Disruption and Stress in an Alaskan Fishing Community: Initial and Continuing Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill     Compelled Disclosure of Scholarly Research: Some Comments on "High Stakes Litigation"     Paradigms, Theories, and Methods in Contemporary Rural Sociology - Rural Sociology: Winter, 1978 (Volume 43, Number 4)     Reply to Bealer - Rural Sociology: Winter, 1978 (Volume 43, Number 4)