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02972nam a2200457Ka 4500 001 E10DF30C2B0B11DE9A033608A8D7520A 005 20221207011208 008 060223s2006 caud b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 9781412941310 (cloth) 020 $a 1412941318 (cloth) 020 $a 9781412941327 (paper) 020 $a 1412941326 (paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)64242136 040 $a DBI $c DBI $d SILO $d SILO 245 0 $a Shelter from the storm : $b repairing the national emergency management system after Hurricane Katrina / $c special editor of this volume, William L. Waugh, Jr. 246 30 $a Repairing the national emergency management system after Hurricane Katrina 260 $a Thousand Oaks, CA : $b SAGE Publications, $c c2006. 300 $a 332 p. : $b charts ; $c 24 cm. 440 0 $a Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. $v v.604 500 $a "March 2006." 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "The articles in this volume address some of the more serious issues raised by Katrina, including the responsibility of public officials to ensure that the system works, the president's role in disasters and his role in the Katrina disaster, disaster myths and the erroneous assumptions that underlie our current programs, emergent and prosocial behavior in disasters, individual and community vulnerabilities, the sheltering and housing of very large numbers of evacuees, physical and mental health impacts of disaster, the need to manage hazardous areas better, the need to promote disaster resiliency to facilitate recovery, the need to mitigate hazards and ensure against losses, the need to develop national partnerships for disaster recovery, the need to organize emergency response and emergency management effectively to ensure agility and discipline, and the need to work effectively within the nations's federal system with its shared responsibility for homeland security and emergency management" -- p.9 610 20 $a United States. $b Federal Emergency Management Agency $x Evaluation. 610 20 $a United States. $b Department of Homeland Security $x Evaluation 650 0 $a Emergency management $x Government policy $z United States. 650 0 $a Emergency management $x Decision making $z United States 650 0 $a Disaster relief $x Government policy $z United States. 650 0 $a Disaster relief $x Decision making $z United States 650 0 $a Hurricane Katrina, 2005. 650 0 $a Floods $z New Orleans. $z New Orleans. 650 0 $a Hurricane protection $x Government policy $z United States 700 1 $a Waugh, William L. 710 2 $a American Academy of Political and Social Science. 939 $a 5594077 941 $a 4 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214014401.0 952 $l UPAX334 $d 20230104034814.0 952 $l ULAX314 $d 20190926090257.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171220042236.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E10DF30C2B0B11DE9A033608A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IOWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search