Investigators Urge Larger Federal Risk-Reduction Role
After reviewing 50 years of decision making on levee and flood wall construction in the New Orleans area before Hurricane Katrina, RFF water resources planning expert Leonard Shabman concludes that policymakers never intended to make risk versus cost tradeoffs: "In every instance as their choices were made, there is never any evidence that they thought, 'I am going to accept increased risk to save money."
