The results of the workshops were reviewed and 2 of the workshops were condensed into 1 leaving a workshop on Citizen Engagement and one on Resilience and Operation in Cities

New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina: Lessons for California's Levees: The recent flooding and devastation of the greater New Orleans region during hurricane Katrina represented the most costly peace-time failure of an engineered system in North American history. Extensive investigations and analyses have been performed by several major teams in the wake of this disaster, and some very important lessons have been learned. Many of these have very direct and urgent applications to California's levee systems and flood risk exposure, and to the security of our State's vital water supply systems. UC Berkeley Professor Ray Seed discusses what California can learn from New Orleans and how to prevent a...

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