This is an overview of the humanitarian response to Hurricane Katrina and offers a couple of lessons learned. The paper is divided into the following sections:
- Overview of the risks
- Stakeholders involved
- Risk handling deficits and risk handling process
- Conclusions
Resource collections
- Cyclones, hurricanes & typhoons
- Evaluating humanitarian action
- Leadership
- Learning from crises
- Monitoring of humanitarian action
- UN Habitat - Urban Response Collection
- Urban Response - Urban Crisis Preparedness and Risk Reduction
- Urban Response Collection - Community Engagement and Social Cohesion
- Urban Response Collection - Economic Recovery
- Urban Response Collection - Environment and Climate Change
- Urban Response Collection - Housing, Land and Property
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Crisis Response, Recovery and Reconstruction
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Resilience