Emergency Policy : Volume III (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction; Part I Prevention and Planning in a Globalized World: Preparing for the world risk society: towards a new security paradigm for the European Union, Arjen Boin and Magnus Ekengren; Governing by looking back: historical analogies and crisis management, Annika BrA¤ndstrA¶m, Fredrik Bynander and Paul 't Hart; Crisis management: toward a new informational 'localism' in local government reform, Alan Jarman, Kevin Sproats and Alexander Kouzmin; A new cosmology of risks and crises: time for a radical shift in paradigm and practice, Patrick Lagadec; Megacities as global risk areas, Frauke Kraas; Preventing transboundary crises: the management and regulation of setbacks, Emery Roe; Strategies for high risk reduction and management as global responsibility, Lorenzo Miccoli and Francesca Destefano. Part II Acute Responses and Influences Beyond the Nation-State: Managing transboundary crises: identifying the building blocks of an effective response system, Chris Ansell, Arjen Boin and Ann Keller; International crisis response and a Canadian role, Jane Boulden; Institutional and political leadership dimensions of cascading ecological crises, Victor Galaz, Fredrik Moberg, Eva-Karin Olsson, Eric Paglia and Charles Parker; The policy-media interaction model: measuring media power during humanitarian crisis, Piers Robinson; September 11: public administration and the study of crises and crisis management, Uriel Rosenthal; Communication management during risk events and crises in a globalised world: predictability of domestic media attention for calamities, Bastiaan C.J. Zoeteman, Wouter C. Kersten, Wiebe F. Vos, Lieke van de Voort and Ben J.M. Ale; Globalisation, complex humanitarian emergencies and health, T.J.D. O'Dempsey and B. Munslow. Part III Recovery and Reconstruction in the Shadow of Globalization: Towards the development of a standard in emergency planning, David Alexander; Enhancing disaster recovery: lessons from exemplary international disaster management practices, Jeffrey D. Garnett and Melinda Moore; Post-disaster recovery dilemmas: challenges in balancing short-term and long-term needs for vulnerability reduction, Jane C. Ingram, Guillermo Franco, Cristina Rumbaitis-del Rio and Bjian Khazai; The shock doctrine: a discussion, Naomi Klein and Neil Smith; Humanitarian crises: what determines the level of emergency assistance? Media coverage, donor interests and the aid business, Gorm Rye Olsen, Nils Carstensen and Kristian HA¸yen; Neoliberalism, INGO practices and sustainable disaster recovery: a post-Katrina case study, Loretta Pyles; The international humanitarian system and the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunamis, John Telford and John Cosgrave. Part IV The Possibilities of Crisis Learning in a Globalized World: Coastal oil pollution: spills, crisis, and policy change, Rick S. Kurtz; Learning from exemplary practices in international disaster management: a fresh avenue to inform US policy?, Melinda Moore, Horacio R. Trujillo, Brooke K. Stearns, Ricardo Basurto-Davila and David K. Evans; Disaster risk, climate change and international development: scope for, and challenges to, integration, Lisa Schipper and Mark Pelling; Resisting neo-liberalism: the poisoned water disaster in Walkerton, Ontario, Laureen Snider; Rethinking the nature of disaster: from failed instruments of learning to a post-social understanding, Stewart Williams; Conclusion; Name index.