On risk and disaster : lessons from hurricane katrina /
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.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
Publication Dates: |
[2006] ©2006 |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812205473 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9780812205473.jpg |
Summary: |
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. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations |
ISBN: | 9780812205473 |
Index Number: | HV636 2005 |
CLC: | D771.27 |
Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Introduction / 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 / Behaviorally Realistic Risk Managelllent / Rationales and Instruments for Government Intervention in Natural Disasters / Social Inequality, Hazards, and Disasters / Equity Analysis and Natural Hazards Policy / 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 / Role of Public Health and Clinical Medicine in Preparing for Disasters / Hurricane Katrina as a Bureaucratic Nightmare / The Katrina Breakdown / Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors. |