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52 Loy. L. Rev. 1127 (2006)
Global Climate Change and the Risks to Coastal Areas from Hurricanes and Rising Sea Levels: The Costs of Doing Nothing

handle is hein.journals/loyolr52 and id is 1135 raw text is: GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE RISKS TO COASTAL AREAS FROM HURRICANES AND RISING SEA LEVELS: THE COSTS OF DOING NOTHING Robert L. Glicksman * I. INTRODUCTION Many Americans, horrified by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in late summer 2005, sought an explanation for the nation's failure to avert that disaster or to deal with it adequately once the storm had hit land. Candidates for bearing the lion's share of the blame were not difficult to identify. They included local governments, the governments of the states located along the Gulf Coast, the Army Corps of Engineers, high-ranking officials in the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the President of the United States. The nation's attention also focused on the question of how to ensure more effective preparation for future storms such as category 4 or 5 hurricanes. Among those public officials addressing that question were subcommittees of both Houses of Congress, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the White House. These officials analyzed questions such as why the levees broke and why evacuation plans did not effectively remove people from * Robert W. Wagstaff Professor of Law, University of Kansas; Member Scholar, Center for Progressive Reform. The author thanks the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and the Center for Progressive Reform for organizing a conference held in New Orleans to commemorate the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, at which this paper was first presented. He also thanks participants in faculty research workshops at the University of Kansas School of Law and the Emory University School of Law for feedback provided at presentations based on this article. Special thanks go to Rob Verchick at Loyola New Orleans for organizing the Katrina conference and to Robert Ahdieh at Emory for providing an invitation to speak to the faculty there. Finally, the author thanks Bill Buzbee, David Driesen, and Kimberly Jenkins for their insightful comments on earlier drafts of this article. Notwithstanding all of this useful input, all errors remain the responsibility of the author. 1127

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