Title: Hurricane Katrina and lessons learned utilization: Important findings for the emergency management community
Abstract: Hurricane Katrina revealed several lessons learned for the emergency management community. This study was conducted to determine common lessons learned from Katrina and how emergency managers in hurricane prone areas were utilizing them. The study attempted to determine if and how the emergency management community is using the lessons learned from Katrina, if at all. The author concludes with some important findings for the emergency management community. The survey results are valuable to emergency managers in the sense that utilizing lessons learned from previous disasters of all types can lead to more effective planning and responding to future disasters. Effective emergency planning or managing effective responses in disasters saves peoples’ money and most important, peoples’ lives.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-05-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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