On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina

✍ Scribed by Ronald J. Daniels (editor); Donald F. Kettl (editor); Howard Kunreuther (editor); Amy Gutmann (editor)

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 301
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Leading experts address questions of public and private roles in assessing, managing, and mitigating major risks to public health and safety in light of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Part One .The Challenge of the Gulf
On Their Own in Battered New Orleans
Using Risk and Decision Analysis to Protect New Orleans Against Future Hurricanes
Planning for a City on the Brink
JARring Actions That Fuel the Floods
Part Two. Thinking About Risk
Behaviorally Realistic Risk Managelllent
Rationales and Instruments for Government Intervention in Natural Disasters
Social Inequality, Hazards, and Disasters
Equity Analysis and Natural Hazards Policy
Part Three. Private Sector Strategies for Managing Risk
Why We Under-Prepare for Hazards
Has the Time Come for Comprehensive Natural Disaster Insurance?
Rethinking Disaster Policy After Hurricane Katrina
Providing Econolllic Incentives to Build Disaster-Resistant Structures
Part Four. The Government's Role in Disaster Preparedness and Response
Role of Public Health and Clinical Medicine in Preparing for Disasters
Hurricane Katrina as a Bureaucratic Nightmare
The Katrina Breakdown
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Contributors

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