A host of natural and man-made disasters have plagued the world in the twenty-first century, many with significant global impact. The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, the Indian Ocean tsunami, and Hurricane Katrina all affected broad regions with devastating results. The need for better emergency management policies, procedures, and cooperation among n

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The book outlines the regulatory environment for disaster prevention and management in broad social, economic and political context. The first half of the book focuses mainly on Japan, especially the ‘3-11’ events: the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Tohoku area on 11 March 2011 and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant radiation leaks. The second half focuses on the USA (the only other Asia-Pacific country to have experienced a serious nuclear emergency), Indonesia, China, New Zealand, Australia and international law. One question explored is whether socio-legal norms play different roles in preventing and managing responses to natural disasters compared to ‘man-made’ disasters. Another is how ‘disaster law’ interacts with society across very diverse societies in the disaster-prone Asia-Pacific region. The book also addresses the increasingly important roles played by international law and regional regimes for cross-border cooperation in disaster prevention and relief, including the functions played by military forces. Erudite, pragmatic, and charged with detailed, substantive knowledge of an astonishing range of contexts and research fields, this timely collection of important essays on the law and society of disaster management stands as an exemplary international academic response to the disasters of 11 March 2011. (Annelise Riles)

In the United States governments routinely partner with businesses to manage the effects of natural and man-made disasters. However, understandings of these public-private sector partnerships in US emergency management ("disasteroriented PPPs") remain limited. This thesis applies and tests an eight factor analytical framework, originally developed to evaluate federal-level disasteroriented PPPs, and assesses whether the framework is also viable to evaluate disaster-oriented PPPs in the states of California, Florida, New York, and Virginia. This thesis represents the first comparative scholarly analysis of statelevel disaster-oriented PPPs in the United States. The viability of the analytical framework is assessed as follows. First, the thesis situates the analytical framework within the broader public policy literature on evaluations of public sector partnerships, and argues that the selected analytical framework is appropriate to the present study precisely because it was created to assess disaster-oriented PPPs. Second, the analytical framework is applied and tested against the four case studies of current state-level disasteroriented PPPs in California, Florida, New York, and Virginia to determine if the framework is suitable for evaluations of state-level disaster-oriented PPPs. Next, the thesis argues that understanding state-level disaster-oriented PPPs requires the consideration of the role of non-profit and industry organizations. The thesis closes by arguing that, based upon the conclusions developed in preceding chapters, federal government officials should not seek to impose a standardized framework for disaster-oriented PPPs on state governments, for to do so risks dampening state-level policy innovations in emergency management.

This paper will provide a comparative analysis of the United States (U.S.) Department of Homeland Security's Emergency Preparedness and Response directorate and the Israel Defense Forces' Home Front Command. It will focus on the preparedness aspect of homeland security and will address similarities and differences of both organizations, recent initiatives within each organization, and collaborative efforts between the United States and Israel in support of homeland security. It will illustrate that both organizations have made great strides in their homeland security efforts but that there is still much that needs to be done.

Survival in times of disaster is a question of utmost importance to both the victims of those events and to the professionals and people in authority who are there to serve them. In Disaster Emergency Management, Liza Ireni Saban examines what leads some nations, communities, and individuals to rise to the occasion during these times of trauma, while others do not. Utilizing case studies of China, Indonesia, Japan, and the United States, she focuses in particular on the dilemma faced by local emergency officials who, rather than elected officials, find themselves "on the front lines," suddenly confronted with complex public problems. Recent studies have pointed to a breakdown of government and bureaucratic decision making in the face of intense crisis situations. Saban demonstrates the inadequacies of grappling with what are in truth contested ethical issues within a framework whose approach is technical-rational. She draws on communitarian ethics to redefine the role of the bureaucrat so that community resilience, through attention to local values and needs, is fostered prior to the actual crisis.