Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters The Perspective from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi: Summary of a Workshop (2011) / Chapter Skim
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6 Governance
6 Governance
Pages 57-62
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" asked Ellis Stanley, director of western emergency management services at Dewberry LLC, who moderated the third panel at the workshop. In addition, governance occurs at multiple levels, from the neighborhood to the federal level, requiring that the various elements of governance be integrated.
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In some cases, government also needs to support the work under way in communities without getting in the way of that work. As a former president of a neighborhood association in the Ninth Ward, he always appreciated government officials who would encourage and not block grassroots efforts.
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The office could provide "an eye-opening learning experience for how city hall works." FROM CONTROL TO FACILITATION: BILL STALLWORTH Bill Stallworth, a city councilman in East Biloxi, Mississippi, described the area that he represents as where "90 percent of the Asian population resides, 90 percent of the African American population resides, 90 percent of the Hispanic population resides, and 90 percent of the poor reside." East Biloxi was devastated by Katrina. A 30-foot storm surge swept across the peninsula, destroying half of the city's housing population and damaging everything else.
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The agency also reaches out to a very wide variety of organizations to provide information, including Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOADs) , the American Red Cross, Catholic charities, senior centers, higher education institutions, federal agencies such as the U.S.
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"This is a question that has got to have some attention, because it's not enough to blame whoever the politician is at that moment when some of these issues continue no matter who is in charge." A second problem with governance is what Nance called bureaucratic risk. This is when people at other levels of government or outside government decide that a particular government agency is so ineffective that they refuse to give money to it.
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