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The New Orleans Hurricane Protection System: What Went Wrong and Why
Asce Hurricane Katrina External Review Panel
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Paperback. On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck southeast Louisiana and triggered what would become one of the worst disasters ever to befall an American city. This report focuses on the direct physical causes and contributing factors to the hurricane protection system failures. It also gives an overview of what caused the disaster. Num Pages: 92 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JMC; RNR; TNC; TNFL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck southeast Louisiana and triggered what would become one of the worst disasters ever to befall an American city. The devastation was so extensive, and the residual risk looms so ominous, that, more than a year later, the future of New Orleans remains clouded. The members of the ASCE Hurricane Katrina External Review Panel have conducted an in-depth review of the comprehensive work of the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Interagency Performance Evaluation Taskforce (IPET) to better understand this tragedy and prevent similar disasters from happening again. The report, ... Read more
On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck southeast Louisiana and triggered what would become one of the worst disasters ever to befall an American city. The devastation was so extensive, and the residual risk looms so ominous, that, more than a year later, the future of New Orleans remains clouded. The members of the ASCE Hurricane Katrina External Review Panel have conducted an in-depth review of the comprehensive work of the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Interagency Performance Evaluation Taskforce (IPET) to better understand this tragedy and prevent similar disasters from happening again. The report, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
American Society of Civil Engineers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
92
Place of Publication
Reston, United States
ISBN
9780784408933
SKU
V9780784408933
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