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Hurricane Katrina: 3 painful lessons for emergency management are increasingly important 20 years later

By Eric Kevin Stern, Professor of Political Science, Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, University at Albany, State University of New York

The 2005 hurricane was a disaster made worse by a lack of coordination and communication among governments and emergency leadership on the ground.

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