Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One .The Challenge of the Gulf
6. On Their Own in Battered New Orleans 15
7. Using Risk and Decision Analysis to Protect New Orleans Against Future Hurricanes 27
8. Planning for a City on the Brink 41
9. JARring Actions That Fuel the Floods 59
10. Part Two. Thinking About Risk
11. Behaviorally Realistic Risk Managelllent 77
12. Rationales and Instruments for Government Intervention in Natural Disasters 89
13. Social Inequality, Hazards, and Disasters 109
14. Equity Analysis and Natural Hazards Policy 129
15. Part Three. Private Sector Strategies for Managing Risk
16. Why We Under-Prepare for Hazards 153
17. Has the Time Come for Comprehensive Natural Disaster Insurance? 175
18. Rethinking Disaster Policy After Hurricane Katrina 203
19. Providing Econolllic Incentives to Build Disaster-Resistant Structures 223
20. Part Four. The Government's Role in Disaster Preparedness and Response
21. Role of Public Health and Clinical Medicine in Preparing for Disasters 231
22. Hurricane Katrina as a Bureaucratic Nightmare 243
23. The Katrina Breakdown 255
24. Bibliography 263
25. Acknowledgments 287
26. Contributors 289