The former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin has some advice for Australian governments struggling with last summer’s disastrous floods and cyclone: let local people own the recovery.
”I think New Orleans is a key study of a horrific catastrophe and how we struggled to plan and implement to get the city back to recovery,” …
C. Ray Nagin presided over New Orleans as the mayor in 2008 during one of the most harrowing times of the city’s history. Hurricane Katrina had hit the city in 2005, and much of the media coverage decried the inactivity of the Bush Administration. For Nagin’s part, he did urge residents to prepare for …