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Governing Disasters - The Challenges of Emergency Risk Regulation (Hardcover)
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'Even the best-laid policy plans go awry. What do we do when,
despite our best preventive efforts, a surprise crisis occurs? How
do we regulate a disaster while it is unfolding? From volcanoes to
tornadoes, and tsunamis to terrorists, extreme events test our
resilience. In this illuminating volume, regulatory scholar Alberto
Alemanno and his colleagues diagnose the complex combination of
natural disasters and flawed institutions that make these crises so
difficult to manage. They offer a set of insights and remedies that
must be read by anyone concerned to deal with disasters in the
future.' - Jonathan B. Wiener, Duke University'This comprehensive
edited volume makes an important and much needed contribution to an
increasingly important dimension of risk assessment and management,
namely emergency risk regulation. Drawing upon the responses of
government, businesses, and the public to the 2010 volcanic
eruption in Iceland - which disrupted European air travel, it
offers important lessons for policy-makers who are likely to
confront similar unanticipated global risks. The recent nuclear
power disaster in Japan makes this volume both timely and
prescient.' - David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley
Emergency crises have always tested our ability to organize and
swiftly execute a coordinated response. Both natural and unnatural
disasters pose new questions to which previous experience provides
only limited answers. These challenges are arguably greater than
ever, in a more globalized world confronted by a truly
transnational hazard. This is the first volume that addresses the
complexities of the volcanic ash cloud that overshadowed Europe in
April 2011, but has subsequently struck again in Australia, Chile
and Europe. It does so from a multidisciplinary perspective,
drawing upon research from economics, law, sociology and other
fields, as well as volcanology and leading expertise in jet
engineering. While our knowledge base is wide-ranging, there is a
common focus on the practical lessons of the ash cloud crisis both
for subsequent eruptions and for emergency risk regulation more
generally. Among many other insights Governing Disasters explains
why it was that industry and regulators were largely unprepared for
a phenomenon about which we were not scientifically ignorant. It
concludes that the toolbox of risk regulation should not be
expected to provide ready-made solutions but applied flexibly,
creatively and with some humility. This unique and timely resource
will be useful to policy makers, scholars, officials of
international organizations, research institutions and consumer
groups who want to acquire or further develop their capacities for
risk regulation. For teaching purposes it is ideal for courses on
risk regulation, disaster law and policy, and crisis management or
as a supplement in courses on environmental law, transport law,
space law or land use. Contributors: A. Alemanno, N. Bernard, V.
Brannigan, C.M. Briggs, M. Broberg, A. Burgess, G.G. Castellano, S.
Chakraborty, A. Fioritto, F. Hansstein, L. Jachia, A. Jeunemaitre,
C. Johnson, C. Lawless, F.B. Lopez-Jurado, D. Macrae, M. Mazzocchi,
V. Nikonov, M. Ragona, M. Simoncini, A.M. Viens
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