M5A2

Week 5 Project: Hurricane Katrina Evaluation and Recommendations

In this second major assignment, you will apply what you learned in  this course to evaluate the Katrina response and make recommendations.  This portion should also take 6–8 pages to fully cover the following  required topics:

• Evaluations: Identify the specific policies and procedures  which failed during Hurricane Katrina. Address how governmental policies  failed to protect the citizens of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.  Be sure to consider all levels of government, not just federal. This is  important.
• Conclusion and recommendations: Provide at least three viable  strategies you would recommend to government officials and agencies to  prevent the likelihood of a similar disaster preparedness failure from  occurring again. Be sure that your recommendations are legal and  realistic.
• Comparison: Compare the Katrina response against the response  to “Super Storm Sandy” in 2012. In what ways did the governments  improve over Katrina? In which areas do we still see a need for  improvement?
• Lessons for crisis management: Analyze how the lessons and  procedures related to hurricane response can apply to other aspects of  crisis management. How can these techniques be deployed in the battle  against the Zika virus, for instance? Consider also immigration and  terrorism.

Submit your report in a 6–8-page Microsoft Word document