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Emergency Management(2nd Edition)
The American Experience 1900-2005
by David Butler, Melanie Gall, Claire B. Rubin, Susan L. Cutter, Keith Bea, Richard T. Sylves, John R. Harrald, Robert Ward, Gary Wamsley
Paperback, 274 Pages, Published 2007 by Public Entity Risk Institute
ISBN-13: 978-0-9793722-0-9, ISBN: 0-9793722-0-8
"In autumn 2005, three massive hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma struck the U.S. with catastrophic results. Hurricane Katrina, in particular, stood out as one of the worst disasters of the past 100 years. The emergency response to Katrina was so inadequate and problematic that the U.S. was humiliated both at home and abroad. These events prompted perhaps the deepest and most sustained examination of public emergency management (EM) fun ..."
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