FEMA, Katrina, and operations research: better operations management would have helped FEMA in preparedness and response work before Hurricane Katrina—and still could now

Public Manager, The, Spring, 2008 by Richard Sylves

References

Brinkley, Douglas. The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (New York: William Morrow, 2006).

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Miskel, James F. Disaster Response and Homeland Security: What Works, What Doesn't (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Security International, 2006).

Public Entity Risk Institute. "All About Presidential Disaster Declarations." www.peripresdecusa.org.

U.S. House of Representatives. Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina. A Failure of Initiative. 109th Congress, Second Session (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006).

Richard Sylves is professor of political science and international relations and senior policy fellow of the Center on Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Delaware. He was an appointed member of the National Academy of Science Disasters Roundtable in 2002--05 and coedited (with W. Waugh) Cities and Disaster (1991) and Disaster Management in the U.S. and Canada (1996). He wrote The Nuclear Oracles: A Political History of the General Advisory Commission of the AEC (1986) and has done extensive research and writing on presidential declarations of disaster (www.peripresdecusa.org). He can be contacted at sylves@udel.edu.