Infrastructure Interdependency and the Creation of a Normal Disaster: The Case of Hurricane Katrina and the City of New Orleans

Public Works Management & Policy

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 306-314

  Leavitt, William M ^a   Kiefer, John J ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

disaster; Hurricane Katrina; infrastructure interdependency; New Orleans

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249152768     PISSN: 1087724X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1087724X06289055     Document Type: Article

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