On risk and disaster [electronic resource] : lessons from Hurricane Katrina / edited by Ronald J. Daniels, Donald F. Kettl, and Howard Kunreuther ; foreword by Amy Gutmann.

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Publication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.Description: viii, 293 pISBN:

0812219597
9780812219593
9780812205473 (e-book)

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Electronic books.

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363.34/8 22

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HV636 2005 .G85 O5 2006eb

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Contents:

pt. 1. The challenge of the Gulf -- pt. 2. Thinking about risk -- pt. 3. Private sector strategies for managing risk -- pt. 4. The government's role in disaster preparedness and response.

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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 (p. [263]-286).

pt. 1. The challenge of the Gulf -- pt. 2. Thinking about risk -- pt. 3. Private sector strategies for managing risk -- pt. 4. The government's role in disaster preparedness and response.

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