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Lessons of Disaster: Policy Change After Catastrophic Events
Lessons of Disaster: Policy Change After Catastrophic Events, Even before the wreckage of a disaster is cleared, one question is foremost in the minds of the public: What can be done to prevent this from happening again? Today, news media and policymakers often invoke the lessons of September 11 and the lessons, Lessons of Disaster: Policy Change After Catastrophic Events has a rating of 4.5 stars
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Lessons of Disaster: Policy Change After Catastrophic Events, Even before the wreckage of a disaster is cleared, one question is foremost in the minds of the public: What can be done to prevent this from happening again? Today, news media and policymakers often invoke the lessons of September 11 and the lessons, Lessons of Disaster: Policy Change After Catastrophic Events
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  • Lessons of Disaster: Policy Change After Catastrophic Events
  • Written by author Thomas A. Birkland
  • Published by Georgetown University Press, September 2006
  • Even before the wreckage of a disaster is cleared, one question is foremost in the minds of the public: "What can be done to prevent this from happening again?" Today, news media and policymakers often invoke the "lessons of September 11" and the "lessons
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Illustrations     ix
Preface     xiii
Acknowledgments     xvii
Theories and Models of Policy Change and Learning     1
Knowledge, Learning, and Policy Change     8
A Model of Event-Related Policy Change     17
Learning and Lessons in This Study     23
Methods     24
The Case Studies     27
Conclusions     29
September 11, Learning, and Policy Change     31
What Is Homeland Security?     34
Events and Reports: The Emergence of the Homeland Security Problem     36
The September 11 Attacks as Focusing Events     45
September 11, Policy Failure, Learning, and Change     49
Conclusions: Learning after September 11     57
Learning from Aviation Security Disasters     61
Historical Trends in Aviation Security     63
Agenda Change and Security Incidents     68
Policy Change, Learning, and Implementation     86
Implementation Problems in Aviation Security     96
Conclusions     99
Learning from Earthquakes and Hurricanes     103
Why Natural Hazards Matter     104
Disaster Mitigation as a Primary Goal of Disaster Policy     106
Earthquakes and Hurricanes on National and Local Agendas     116
Legislation and Regulation     127
Learning from Disasters at the State and Local Level     129
Conclusions     153
Disaster, Learning, and the Possibility of Change     157
Learning and the Policy Process     159
Revisiting the Propositions     161
Focusing Events and the Presumption against Change     168
Causes, Objective Lessons, and Learning     169
Assessing the Elements of the Model     171
Factors That Promote and Inhibit Learning     172
Focusing Events and the Accumulation of Knowledge     180
Policy Implementation and Lessons     181
Hurricane Katrina and the Unlearning of Lessons     182
Notes     191
References     197
Index     209


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