296 pages / 6.00 x 9.00 inches / 1 map
Political Science / Public Policy - Environmental Policy | Social Studies / Disasters & Disaster Relief
In Managing Hurricane Katrina: Lessons from a Megacrisis, Arjen Boin, Christer Brown, and James A. Richardson analyze and evaluate the crisis response at all levels of government during the first week after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana. With a clear evaluative framework based on decades of crisis management research, the authors examine both the failures and successes during this period and offer lessons useful for government response to other mega-crises in the United States and abroad. Boin, Brown, and Richardson’s granular analysis of this extremely complex operation will inform preparation everywhere for the inevitable super disasters that modern society faces.
Professor of public institutions and governance at Leiden University in the Netherlands, Arjen Boin is author of Crafting Public Institutions: Leadership in Two Prison Systems and coauthor of The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership under Pressure, among other works.
Christer Brown is a civil servant in Stockholm, Sweden.
James A. Richardson is John Rhea Alumni Professor of Economics and Director of the Public Administration Institute in the E. J. Ourso College of Business Administration at Louisiana State University. He co-edited in 1988 Louisiana Fiscal Alternatives; in 1999 Handbook on Taxation; and in 2018 Exploring Long-Term Solutions for Louisiana’s Tax System. He has served as a member of the Louisiana Revenue Estimating Conference since 1987. He has consulted with the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the U.S. Department of Justice. He worked with the Financial Services Roundtable regarding recovering from disasters after Hurricane Katrina.
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