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Distributing Risks and Responsibilities: Flood Hazard Mitigation in New Orleans

Collection

Social Studies of Science Journal

\"Distributing Risks and Responsibilities: Flood Hazard Mitigation in New Orleans\"\r\n\r\nEssay originally published, Social Studies of Science, vol 37, no 1 (February 2007): 119-126

Keywords:

Hurricane Katrina, responsibility, sociotechnical systems

Files:

Wetmore,DistributingRisksandResponsibilities_c87dda73d4.pdf

Citation

“Distributing Risks and Responsibilities: Flood Hazard Mitigation in New Orleans,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed April 16, 2024, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/25928.

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