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- Press Gaggle by Dana Perino and FEMA Administrator Dave Paulison
- Aboard Air Force One En Route Austin, Texas AUSTIN, Texas -- 9:34 A.M. EDT MS. PERINO: Okay, we're on our way to Austin, Texas. I'm going to just give you a little bit about the schedule, and then turn it over to Dave Paulison, the Director of...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- Louisiana Recovery Authority director: Hurricane recovery entering
- The recovery from the 2005 hurricanes is entering its "final stage," said the executive director of the Louisiana Recovery Authority. "We are now moving forward into the final stage of recovery and proving that great things are happening all around us," Paul Rainwater said. "School by school, block...
- Research articles 2008-08-25
- DICE DoD's Interoperability Communications Exercise: if you aren't prepared—you're rolling the dice
- Since 1988, the Defense Department's Interoperability Communications Exercise has been the only DoD exercise whose primary purpose is to certify systems for joint interoperability. This year, the Joint Task Force Civil Support (JTF-CS) hosted the civil response portion of DICE at its base of operations at Fort Monroe, Va.,...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- Title 10 domestic humanitarian assistance: New Orleans
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On Thursday, 1 September 2005, the 2d Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, was alerted to deploy to New Orleans to assist in humanitarian relief operations following Hurricane Katrina. Coming out of a year-long deployment in Iraq, the Black Jack Brigade had lost a significant percentage of its officers...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- FEMA, Katrina, and operations research: better operations management would have helped FEMA in preparedness and response work before Hurricane Katrina—and still could now
- In the wake of the poor government response to the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster, many questions have been asked about why the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA, along with a host of other federal, state, and local emergency management agencies, performed so ineffectively. What went wrong? What is the...
- Research articles 2008-03-22
- Applying lessons of Hurricane Katrina
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the early morning of August 29, 2005, the eye of Hurricane Katrina reached the coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi. While the winds at landfall were assessed as only Category 3, the span of destruction and accompanying storm surge reflected the hurricane's earlier Category 5 strength. Tropical...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Recovering from Katrina: a work in progress—2007: Gulf Coast states have improved local emergency management, but more is needed to upgrade overall performance as the region struggles to recover from the storms of 2005
- The American Society for Public Administration's (ASPA's) Hurricane Katrina Task Force continued its multiyear study of the disaster and its management, providing its second report at the 2007 ASPA annual conference. The task force examined areas that have improved and those that still need to, as the Gulf Coast states...
- Research articles 2007-12-22
- Press Gaggle by Dana Perino
- Aboard Air Force One, En Route Miramar, California SAN DIEGO -- 10:14 A.M. EDT MS. PERINO: The President is on his way to Southern California. I have brought Fran Townsend, who is the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism. She will give you a quick...
- Research articles 2007-10-25
- Responding to national disasters and emergencies: a contract and fiscal law primer
- Future Defense Support to Civilian Authorities DSCA planning and execution must consider the nondoctrinal use of military forces, yet remain within the constraints of federal law and regulations. (1) I. Introduction Since the beginning of our Nation, the U.S. military has been called upon to respond to all...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- Determinants of government aid to Katrina survivors: evidence from survey data
- 1. Introduction Natural catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina are unfortunate natural experiments for evaluating otherwise unobservable events such as the effectiveness of government disaster aid. Katrina was arguably the greatest natural disaster in modern U.S. history. The damage stretched across 90,000 square miles an area roughly the size of Great...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- The political, economic, and social aspects of Katrina
- 1. Introduction Disasters, whether man-made or natural, represent a "natural experiment" for social scientists. As one business leader put it to us on one of our first research trips in February 2006 to New Orleans after the storm, "Heck, I understand it is not every day that you can...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- Is more information always better? An experimental study of charitable giving and Hurricane Katrina
- 1. Introduction The devastation resulting from Hurricane Katrina has elicited unprecedented levels of charitable giving on the part of the general public. In just the first 11 weeks following Katrina, private charities donated approximately $2.7 billion, and $62 billion was appropriated by Congress (Frank 2005). Though motivations for giving...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- Crisis management: FEMA chief promises improved disaster response.(Homeland Security)(Federal Emergency Management Agency's R. David Paulison)
- Two years ago this month, Hurricane Katrina made landfall, destroying both the Gulf Coast and the reputation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency when it failed to carry out its mission of coordinating disaster relief. The Department of Homeland Security agency since then has...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- The House that Katrina built: Senators Mary Landrieu and Chris Dodd have introduced major new legislation to restore all kinds of housing in New Orleans. The House has already approved a bill, and if the Senate acts in the fall, hope could be headed for N
- Anyone working on a news desk the night of Sunday, Aug. 28, 2005, will not soon forget the dire National Weather Service warnings of the Category 4 hurricane heading to the Gulf Coast: "Hurricane Katrina ... a most powerful hurricane with unprecedented strength ... rivaling the intensity of Hurricane Camille...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Delegation promises Katrina aid
- PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. -- A key congressman reassured beleaguered teachers and school administrators Monday that Congress is working to speed recovery in the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast of Mississippi and Louisiana. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn noted a House bill that would provide millions of dollars for affordable housing...
- Research articles 2007-08-14
- Recipients of aid struggle to repay
- Cheryl Gilbert got the letter in December. She was told the federal government had given her disaster aid when it shouldn't have. She was going to have to pay it back. For nine months after Hurricane Katrina toppled the small cottage she had rented in D'Iberville,...
- Research articles 2007-06-15
- Sheltering deprivations: FEMA, Section 408 housing, and procedural redesign.(Federal Emergency Management Agency)
- Having weathered nearly two years of unprecedented disasters and unrelenting public criticism, the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA is the most indispensable--and most distrusted--pillar of the nation's emergency management infrastructure. A constellation of well-documented failures, mostly in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, has created an...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- Economic institutions under disaster situations: the case of Hurricane Katrina
- Hurricane Katrina represented the "perfect storm." The storm stranded approximately 100,000 people for five days without access to adequate food, water, or shelter; inundated 200,000 homes; displaced 500,000 people; caused $200 billion in property damage; and left over 1,800 people dead. Disasters happen; they are part of natural and...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- Disaster management in the United States: examining key political and policy challenges.
- The failures associated with the Hurricane Katrina response call attention to the challenges of, and the need to better understand disaster management practices in the United States. This article reviews several recent contributions to the field of disaster research and considers four key issues: the concept of disaster vulnerability, how...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Hurricane Katrina - A Perspective on Preparation
- "If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future." - Sir Winston Churchill Tuesday, August 23, 2005 was much like any other late summer day along the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and Louisiana; hot and humid. The kids and...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
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