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Hurricane Katrina as Unnatural Disaster: Government Failure and Inequality of Risk

Dong-Hyun Ko 1

1서울대 사회발전연구소

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ABSTRACT

This paper analyzes the process of the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina inAugust 2005 the US case. Katrina is the case exposed the double failure of‘government failure’ and ‘inequality of risk’. First of all, I have an issue dealing withthe disaster management system, and analyze how the cooperation between thefederal government and the local government collapsed. Second, I analyze howthe damage was concentrated to blacks and poor people. In addition, I point outthat the public policies such as housing, welfare, and education policies are workingas exclusive policy for them. Katrina shows that the publicness of American society has a complex nature. Therebuilding process of collaborative governance shows the power of US democracy. However, the inequality of risk that remains unresolved shows the vulnerability ofthe publicness. Therefore, disaster management does not mean just to increase theorganizational capacity and improve the management system. We need to enhancethe social resilience to disasters by developing public policies to address the socialvulnerability.

1. 들어가는 말

2. 재난과 공공성 위기

3. 재난관리시스템의 실패와 재구축

4. 사회적 취약성과 위험 불평등

5. 맺음말

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.