TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adler,Matthew D.
AU  - Bier,Vicki
AU  - Daniels,Ronald J.
AU  - Fischhoff,Baruch
AU  - Foster,Kenneth R.
AU  - Giegengack,Robert
AU  - Gosselin,Peter G.
AU  - Gutmann,Amy
AU  - Harrington,Scott E.
AU  - Kettl,Donald F.
AU  - Kousky,Carolyn
AU  - Kunreuther,Howard
AU  - Meyer,Robert J.
AU  - Ryland,Harvey G.
AU  - Strom,Brian
AU  - Tierney,Kathleen
AU  - Trebilcock,Michael J.
AU  - Walters,Jonathan
AU  - Winterfeldt,Detlof Von
AU  - Zeckhauser,Richard
TI  - On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina 
SN  - 9780812219593
AV  - HV636 2005.G85 O5 2006
U1  - 363.34/8 
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Crisis management in government
KW  - Gulf Coast (U.S.)
KW  - Gulf Coast
KW  - Disaster relief
KW  - Emergency management
KW  - Hurricane Katrina, 2005
KW  - Risk assessment
KW  - Risk perception
KW  - Economics
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Business
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Technology and Engineering
KW  - Urban Studies
N1  - Frontmatter --; 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Named one of Planetizen's Top 10 Books of 2006Hurricane Katrina not only devastated a large area of the nation's Gulf coast, it also raised fundamental questions about ways the nation can, and should, deal with the inevitable problems of economic risk and social responsibility. This volume gathers leading experts to examine lessons that Hurricane Katrina teaches us about better assessing, perceiving, and managing risks from future disasters.In the years ahead we will inevitably face more problems like those caused by Katrina, from fire, earthquake, or even a flu pandemic. America remains in the cross hairs of terrorists, while policy makers continue to grapple with important environmental and health risks. Each of these scenarios might, in itself, be relatively unlikely to occur. But it is statistically certain that we will confront such catastrophes, or perhaps one we have never imagined, and the nation and its citizenry must be prepared to act. That is the fundamental lesson of Katrina.The 20 contributors to this volume address questions of public and private roles in assessing, managing, and dealing with risk in American society and suggest strategies for moving ahead in rebuilding the Gulf coast.Contributors: Matthew Adler, Vicki Bier, Baruch Fischhoff, Kenneth R. Foster, Robert Giegengack, Peter Gosselin, Scott E. Harrington, Carolyn Kousky, Robert Meyer, Harvey G. Ryland, Brian L. Strom, Kathleen Tierney, Michael J. Trebilcock, Detlof von Winterfeldt, Jonathan Walters, Richard J. Zeckhauser
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205473
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812205473
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812205473/original
ER  -