Natural Disasters and Policymaking: Whither Risk Assessment? Wednesday, April 5, 2006
An RFF First Wednesday Seminar
RFF's First Wednesday speakers discussed historical and contemporary experience with natural disasters ranging from the Mississippi Flood of 1927 to Hurricane Katrina. They also compared and contrasted approaches in the United States and in the Netherlands to the challenge of hydrology -- its science, engineering, risk assessment, and public response -- and how these can fly in the face of policymaking.
Video of this First Wednesday Seminar follows below.
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Moderator: Phil Sharp | 
President,
Resources for the Future
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Roger Cooke |
Chauncey Starr Chair in Risk Analysis at
Resources for the Future and
Professor, Delft University of Technology in
The Netherlands
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Charlotte Randolph |
Parish President of LaFourche Parish, Louisiana, and Member of the 2006 Louisiana Delegation to The Netherlands |
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Martin Reuss |
Senior Historian, US Army Corps of Engineers
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Len Shabman |
Resident Scholar, Resources for the Future |
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