Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: As revealed by an independent investiation of the flooding of New Orleans, the New Orleans levees failed disastrously because of organizational and human errons in its design, construction, and maintenance.In this Article, an interisciplinary group of researchers proposes a series of reforms to stengthen the Army Corps of Enginees and improve oversight of flood control activities.Proposals include obtaining a more tansparent and accountable system for determining acceptable levels of rnsk creating White House and congressional oiganizations with jundiaction over disaster issues, the recaptung of core engineering functions by the Corps, wii'ch are now outsource revamping the Corps on the model of well-studied high reliabili(y oganizations (HROs), improving the congressional appropriation process for flood control, and building new collaborative relationships between the Corps and other state and federal agencies. I.
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Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1546327978