American and Dutch Coastal Engineering: Differences in Risk Conception and Differences in Technological Culture.  

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Bijker, Wiebe E.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Studies of Science vol. 37 no. 1 (Feb. 2007), page 143.
Topik: democratization; Katrina; papers; social construction; vulnerability; water management
Fulltext: 143.pdf (111.34KB)

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How is it possible that the USA failed to keep New Orleans dry, when large parts of the Netherlands can exist below sea level? This question, with all its implicit rhetoric about the big and mighty Americans and the small and weak Dutch, generated a flock of American expeditions to the Netherlands in the aftermath of the flooding of New Orleans by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. The big US television networks, channels such as National Geographic, and political delegations, including the Louisiana governor and members of the US Congress, visited the Netherlands within a few months after the flooding, and all parties returned with spirited reports of how the Americans could learn from the Dutch. Does this suggest that the US Army Corps of Engineers is less able than the Rijkswaterstaat engineers in the Netherlands? I will argue that something else is going on: that the difference is not one of expertise and competence.

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