Report Summary November 18, 2005
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Disaster Preparedness
Is the U.S. ready for another major disaster?

Major disasters have ravaged Louisiana twice in five years — Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and the unprecedented BP oil spill this spring and summer — but the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has played starkly different roles in each.. . . .

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Disaster preparedness. (2005, November 18). CQ Researcher, 15, 981-1004. Retrieved from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/
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