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On Risk and Disaster Lessons from Hurricane Katrina

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ISBN-10: 0812219597

ISBN-13: 9780812219593

Edition: 2006

Authors: Ronald J. Daniels, Donald F. Kettl, Howard Kunreuther, Amy Gutmann

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This volume gathers leaders from government, business, and nonprofit organizations, along with journalist from throughout the United States to examine objectively lessons that Hurricane Katrina teaches about our future.
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Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 2/6/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

RONALD J. DANIELS is Dean and Professor, RONALD J. DANIELS is Dean and Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. Kent Roach is Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. PATRICK MACKLEM is a Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.

Frances E. Lee is professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland. She is author of Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate (2009) and coauthor of Sizing Up The Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation (1999). Her work has received national recognition, including the Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize for the best book in legislative politics in 2010, and the D. B. Hardeman Prize for the best book on a congressional topic in both 1999 and 2011. Her articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, American Journal of Political Science, among others.Donald F. Kettl is…    

Howard C. Kunreuther is Cecilia Yen Koo Professor of Decision Sciences and Public Policy at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Codirector of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center. He is Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Innovation and Leadership in Reducing Risks from Natural Disasters.

Foreword
Introduction
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
Thinking About Risk
Behaviorally Realistic Risk Management
Rationales and Instruments for Government Intervention in Natural Disasters
Social Inequality, Hazards, and Disasters
Equity Analysis and Natural Hazards Policy
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 Economic Incentives to Build Disaster-Resistant Structures
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
Acknowledgments
Contributors