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Responding to Katrina: humanitarian aid principles overlooked and discounted?
Hurricane Katrina has demonstrated that natural disasters also affect the most developed countries. It showed the fragility of the human settlements in the US and the lack of an efficient response to disasters.
It also pointed out the lack of a proactive risk management policy centred on the prevention, mitigation and reduction of the catastrophe.
In this comment Silvia Hidalgo analyses the response to a predicted emergency such as hurricane Katrina from a humanitarian perspective.
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Aid effectiveness Aid management Aid policy United StatesBio author:
