Abstract:Having weathered nearly two years of unprecedented disasters and unrelenting public criticism, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is the most indispensableand most distrustedpillar of the nation's emergency management infrastructure. A constellation of well-documented failures, mostly in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, has created an image of an agency adrift. Yet FEMA's role in the Gulf Coast recovery effort has only intensified; the agency is now responsible for sheltering over a million disaster … Show more
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