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604 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2006)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0604 and id is 1 raw text is: Preface By WILLIAM L. WAUGH JR. C learly there is plenty of blame to go around for the poor response to Hurricane Katrina and the problems that followed with Hurricanes Rita and Wilma. The disasters were very differ- ent in scale; the worst problems experienced with Katrina were not repeated with Rita or Wilma, but serious problems were experienced in each. The Katrina disaster does provide clear lessons on how not to deal with coastal, as well as inland, hazards and how not to respond to cata- strophic disasters. Indeed, watching the Katrina disaster unfold was like watching a train wreck in slow motion. Poor planning, poor execution, and a fundamental ignorance of emergency manage- ment and disaster behavior on the parts of many policy makers at all levels cost lives and property. The communities along the Louisiana, Missis- sippi, and Alabama coasts were ill prepared for high winds and storm surge and unprepared to survive on their own while help was mobilized. The media has certainly drawn attention to the destruction of the nation's capacity to deal with major disasters of all sorts since the attacks on 9/11. The myopic focus of U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials on the threat of terrorism led to the dismantling of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and inattention to the more certain threat of natural hazards. FEMA has become the scapegoat for broader policy failures, and in William L. Waugh Jr is a professor of public administra- tion in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. He is the author of Living with Hazards, Dealing with Disasters (2000), Terrorism and Emergency Management (1990), and International Ter- rorism (1982) and coeditor of Disaster Management in the US and Canada (1996), Cities and Disaster (1990), and Handbook of Emergency Management (1990). He serves on the Certified Emergency Manager (CEM) Commission that oversees the national credential for professional emergency managers and on the Emer- gency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP) Commission that develops standards for and accredits state and local emergency management programs. DOI: 10.1177/0002716205286067 ANNALS, AAPSS, 604, March 2006 6

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