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RECORD NUMBER: 124 OF 130Main Title | The storm : what went wrong and why during hurricane Katrina : the inside story from one Louisiana scientist / | |||||||||||
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Author | Van Heerden, Ivor Ll. | |||||||||||
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Publisher | Viking, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 2006 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 65302481 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 0670037818; 9780670037810 | |||||||||||
Subjects | Hurricane Katrina, 2005 ; Emergency management--Gulf States ; Disaster relief--Gulf States ; Katrina (Hurrikan) ; Katastrophenmanagement | |||||||||||
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Collation | 308 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents Notes | Introduction: Disaster, tragedy, failure, and hope -- Storm clouds -- Leave, please! -- Laughed out of the room - Levees lite -- The second-worst-case scenario -- Into the breach -- Is anyone in charge here? -- Wetlands forever -- The score on the Corps -- The investigation -- Now or never. A disaster specialist explains why he had been predicting a tragedy similar to Hurricane Katrina's destruction for a decade, and outlines his plans for preventing a similar catastrophe from occurring in the future. |