Marie T. Mora is Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri – St. Louis.Alberto Dávila is Dean of the Harrison College of Business & Computing and Professor of Economics at Southeast Missouri State University.Havidán Rodríguez is President and Professor of Sociology of the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY).

• Chapter 1: Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico: Context and Ramifications by Marie T. Mora,Havidán Rodríguez, and Alberto DávilaChapter 2: Employment and Wages in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria by María E.EnchauteguiChapter 3: Hurricane Maria’s Impact on Puerto Rico’s Labor Market: Job Losses, Wage Changesand Recovery of Municipalities Close to the Epicenter by Zadia M. FelicianoChapter 4: Hurricane Effects on Industry Employment: Evidence from Puerto Rico by JoséCaraballo-CuetoChapter 5: Understanding Hurricane Maria: Disaster Response as Transition Management byMarla D. Pérez-Lugo, Cecilio Ortiz-García, and Didier ValdésChapter 6: Health and Healthcare Delivery in Puerto Rico Before and After Hurricane Maria byJose M. FernandezChapter 7: The Health Profile of Puerto Ricans Before and After Hurricane Maria by Fernando I.Rivera, Rebecca Sanchez, Valeria Quiñones, Veronica Arroyo Rodriguez, and AdrianaSollaChapter 8: Expected Impacts and Consequences of Hurricane Maria and Power Out

This edited volume offers 13 chapters by contributing authors from a range of social science disciplines exposing the impact of one of the deadliest natural disasters in US history on Puerto Ricans, both in the commonwealth and stateside. The early chapters describe the political, economic, demographic, and social conditions prevailing on the island when the hurricane made landfall in 2017. Drawing on a previous study by the editors, contributors cite the significant outmigration, a shrinking and aging population, decaying infrastructure, increasing unemployment, and a bankrupt government with federal restrictions on its fiscal autonomy. These crisis conditions created a foundation for a devastatingly slow disaster response to a storm that claimed nearly 3,000 lives and left the majority of island residents without power, running water, food, and medicines for more than a month. In addition to examining various disaster recovery efforts, individual chapters address the hurricane's impact on employment, health, civic engagement, migration patterns, and artistic expression. Indeed, as readers will learn, the impact is ongoing. The volume ends by posing new questions about the hurricane's long-term demographic impact on the island and the political implications of the migration of Puerto Ricans back to the island in Maria’s wake. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.