For this assignment, you will focus on Hurricane Katrina. Review the Executive Summary and Investigation Overview (pp. 126) in the Katrina report, A Failure of Initiative.

Government Printing Office. (n.d.). A failure of initiative. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/pagedetails.action?browsePath=109/HRPT/%5B300%3B399%5D&granuleId=CRPT-109hrpt377&packageId=CRPT-109hrpt377

Based on your review of the Executive Summary and Investigation Overview, write a 3- to 5-page paper that describes how you would have applied the 4 incident management principles of: 1) mitigation, 2) preparedness, 3) response, and 4) recovery, to make effective decisions during the Katrina emergency.

Explain why you would have taken the approach. What would the results have been had your approach been implemented during Katrina?