PrintThis lesson will conclude our three-week examination of emergency preparedness and disaster management. This third lesson is a historical case study of Hurricane Katrina. Your deliverable this week is a forum with two questions and an assignment. As part of your deliverable, you will research a contemporary disaster and provide a short PowerPoint presentation (see 9.6) part of which will show how the government disaster response efforts have improved (or not) since Katrina.
Lesson Objectives
At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
- discuss and critique the use of intelligence and especially geospatial intelligence in the planning for, and response to, Hurricane Katrina;
- synthesize the ideas of previous lessons to critique the role of intelligence and especially geospatial intelligence in relation to Hurricane Katrina;
- discuss the social justice implications for geospatial intelligence applications in Hurricane Katrina;
- compare the government response to Katrina with the government response to a more recent disaster;
- speculate on future applications of geospatial intelligence for disaster management.
Questions?
If you have any questions now or at any point during this week, please feel free to post them to the GEOG 882 in Canvas.