Beyond Katrina: Improving Disaster Response Capabilities

As Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma successively lashed the Gulf Coast starting in late August 2005, nature’s fury exposed serious weaknesses in the United States’s emergency response capabilities. These problems were not simply the failure of particular places or leaders to be ready for disast...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Howitt, Arnold M., Leonard, Herman B.
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Center for Public Leadership 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55946