Hurricane Katrina : the role of the governors in managing the catastrophe : hearing
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
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ISBN : 9781422321775
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
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ISBN : 9781422321775
Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina
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Page : 588 pages
File Size : 34,24 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Disaster relief
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Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
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"The objective of this report is to identify and establish a roadmap on how to do that, and lay the groundwork for transforming how this Nation- from every level of government to the private sector to individual citizens and communities - pursues a real and lasting vision of preparedness. To get there will require significant change to the status quo, to include adjustments to policy, structure, and mindset"--P. 2.
Author : Cynthia A. Bascetta
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Page : 8 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Child mental health services
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Author : Gary Rivlin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1451692269
Ten years in the making, Gary Rivlin’s Katrina is “a gem of a book—well-reported, deftly written, tightly focused….a starting point for anyone interested in how The City That Care Forgot develops in its second decade of recovery” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana. A decade later, journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm’s immediate damage, the city of New Orleans’s efforts to rebuild itself, and the storm’s lasting effects not just on the area’s geography and infrastructure—but on the psychic, racial, and social fabric of one of this nation’s great cities. Much of New Orleans still sat under water the first time Gary Rivlin glimpsed the city after Hurricane Katrina as a staff reporter for The New York Times. Four out of every five houses had been flooded. The deluge had drowned almost every power substation and rendered unusable most of the city’s water and sewer system. Six weeks after the storm, the city laid off half its workforce—precisely when so many people were turning to its government for help. Meanwhile, cynics both in and out of the Beltway were questioning the use of taxpayer dollars to rebuild a city that sat mostly below sea level. How could the city possibly come back? “Deeply engrossing, well-written, and packed with revealing stories….Rivlin’s exquisitely detailed narrative captures the anger, fatigue, and ambiguity of life during the recovery, the centrality of race at every step along the way, and the generosity of many from elsewhere in the country” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Katrina tells the stories of New Orleanians of all stripes as they confront the aftermath of one of the great tragedies of our age. This is “one of the must-reads of the season” (The New Orleans Advocate).
Author : James A. Wombwell
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1437923054
This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Hurricane Katrina, in Aug. 2005, was the costliest hurricane as well as one of the five deadliest storms in U.S. history. It caused extensive destruction along the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas. Some 22,000 Active-Duty Army personnel assisted with relief-and-recovery operations in Mississippi and Louisiana. At the same time, all 50 states sent approx. 50,000 National Guard personnel to deal with the storm¿s aftermath. Because the media coverage of this disaster tended toward the sensational more than the analytical, many important stories remain to be told in a dispassionate manner. This study offers a dispassionate analysis of the Army¿s response to the natural disaster by providing a detailed account of the operations in Louisiana and Mississippi.
Author : Michael D. Brown
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,76 MB
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1589794869
At last, former Under Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Brown—infamously praised by President George W. Bush for doing a "heckuva job" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina—tells his side of the response to one of the greatest natural disasters to occur in the United States. Without making excuses for anyone, least of all the President of the United States or himself, Brown describes in detail what ultimately turned out to be the largest federal response to a natural disaster in U.S. history.
Author : Saundra K. Schneider
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317473361
Now updated with examples through 2010, this classic study examines the disruptive effects of disasters on patterns of human behavior and the operations of government, and the conditions under which even relatively minor crises can lead to system breakdown.
Author : Daniel Jonathan Clarke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,89 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198785577
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Dull Disasters? shows how countries and their partners can better prepare for natural disasters such as typhoons, earthquakes, floods, and drought. By harnessing lessons from finance, political science, economics, psychology, and the naturalsciences, it is possible for governments, civil society, private firms, and international organizations to work together to achieve better preparedness, thereby reducing the risks to people and economies and enablingquicker recoveries. In this way, responses to disasters become less emotional, less political, less headline-grabbing, and more business as usual and effective.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
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Special report of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, together with additional views.