Distributing Risks and Responsibilities: Flood Hazard Mitigation in New Orleans.  

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Wetmore, Jameson M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Studies of Science vol. 37 no. 1 (Feb. 2007), page 119.
Topik: Hurricane Katrina; responsibility; socio-technical systems
Fulltext: 119.pdf (105.89KB)

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Coordinated responses to flooding in the New Orleans area date back to at least the early 18th century when the Company of the Indies built a mile-long bulwark on a natural levee (Colten, 2005). Since that early project, corporations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and local, state, and federal governments have taken numerous steps to limit the risk of flooding, including building extensive levee systems, redirecting rivers, and developing evacuation plans. Like many risks that have been perceived and dealt with for centuries – including crime, disease, and other natural disasters – modern science and engineering have worked in concert with other institutions to address the problem through the development of large socio-technical systems.

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