The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist - Couverture souple

Van Heerden, Ivor; Bryan, Mike

 
9780143112136: The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--the Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist
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ISBN 10 : 0143112139 ISBN 13 : 9780143112136
Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 2007

Synopsis

The ultimate inside story of the Katrina tragedy—from the cofounder of the LSU Hurricane Center

After warning for years about the looming threat of catastrophic flooding in New Orleans, Ivor van Heerden was one of the highest-profile media experts during the Katrina disaster. Over the following eighteen months, he was even more prominent as he challenged the official version of those events and campaigned for an engineering plan that would protect all of southeastern Louisiana, once and for all. In The Storm, van Heerden lays out in full detail the stunning incompetence among the bureaucrats, the politicians, and the Army Corps of Engineers that culminated in the catastrophe that crippled, perhaps forever, a great American city.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ivor van Heerden was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is cofounder and deputy director of the LSU Hurricane Center and director of the Center for the Study of Public Health Impacts of Hurricanes. He is also associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at LSU. He holds a Ph.D. in marine sciences from LSU, where his research focused on the Atchafalaya River Delta; his ongoing research areas include disaster preparation and response, coastal geomorphology, environmental management, and habitat restoration.

Mike Bryan has written or collaborated on many books, including Cal Ripken’s bestselling autobiographyThe Only Way I Know, Uneasy Rider, and The Afterword, a novel.

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Éditeur
Penguin Publishing Group
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0143112139
ISBN 13 
9780143112136
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
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ISBN 10 :  0670037818 ISBN 13 :  9780670037810
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