A performance review of FEMA's disaster management activities in response to Hurricane Katrina

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Label

A performance review of FEMA's disaster management activities in response to Hurricane Katrina

Statement of responsibility

Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General

Creator

• United States, Department of Homeland Security | Office of Inspector General

Contributor

• Hodges, Marcia Moxey
• Skinner, Richard L., 1947-

Subject

• Emergency management -- Gulf States
• Hurricane Katrina, 2005
• Intergovernmental cooperation -- United States
• United States, Federal Emergency Management Agency
• Emergency management -- Government policy -- United States
• Hazard mitigation -- United States
• Disaster relief -- Government policy -- United States
• Disaster relief -- Gulf States

Language

eng

Summary

"[The report reviews] FEMA's activities in response to Hurricane Katrina, which details FEMA's responsibilities for three of the four major phases of disaster management - preparedness, response, and recovery - during the first five weeks of the federal response. In addition, [the contributors] evaluated FEMA's preparedness and readiness efforts over the past ten years to determine its organizational capability and posture prior to Hurricane Katrina"--Executive summary

Additional physical form

Also available via Internet from the DHS web site. Address as of 12/5/06: http://www.dhs.gov/xoig/assets/mgmtrpts/OIG%5F06-32%5FMar06.pdf ; current access is available via PURL

Cataloging source

R#A

Government publication

federal national government publication

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography