Citation

Derthick M. Public Adm. Rev. 2007; 67: 36-47.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, American Society for Public Administration, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1540-6210.2007.00811.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The governmental response to Hurricane Katrina was not the unalloyed failure that is often portrayed. The response was a mixture of success and failure. Successes occurred when a foundation had been laid for intergovernmental cooperation, as with the largely successful pre-landfall evacuation of Greater New Orleans, the multistate mobilization of the National Guard, and the search and rescue operations of the U.S. Coast Guard and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. Postmortems should draw lessons from such successes rather than concentrate entirely on the numerous failures.