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On risk and disaster : lessons from Hurricane Katrina / edited by Ronald J. Daniels, Donald F. Kettl, and Howard Kunreuther ; foreword by Amy Gutmann.
LIBRA HV551.3 .O5 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- National Symposium on Risk and Disasters (2005 : Washington, D.C.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emergency management--United States.
- Emergency management.
- Risk assessment.
- Risk perception.
- Crisis management in government.
- United States.
- Crisis management in government--United States.
- Disaster relief--United States.
- Disaster relief.
- Risk perception--United States.
- Risk assessment--United States.
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 293 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2006]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Essays published in association with the National Symposium on Risk and Disasters (Dec. 2005, Washington, D.C.), organized by the University of Pennsylvania in collaboration with Congressional quarterly and the Communications Institute.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-286).
- Local Notes:
- Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.
- ISBN:
- 9780812219593
- 0812219597
- OCLC:
- 63291440
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