Sign in or create a free account to get FREE SHIPPING and DISCOUNTS

Disaster Law and Policy, Third Edition

random
BOOKMARK
Authors
  • Daniel A. Farber
  • James Ming Chen
  • Robert R.M. Verchick
  • Lisa Grow Sun
Series / Aspen Select Series
BOOKMARK
Book length
600 pages
Publication Date
Edition
Third Edition
Teaching Materials
NO
Description

Disaster Law and Policy examines the growing field concerned with disaster prevention, emergency response, compensation andamp; insurance, human rights, and community recovery. The first book on disaster law to appear in the wake of Katrina, this fascinating text provides the key building blocks for a thoughtful analysis of the issues that surround disaster-relief policy and procedure.

Exploring the legal issues that surround Katrina and other natural disasters in the U.S. and around the world, Disaster Law and Policy, features:

  • effective tools for legal analysis of issues emerging from disastrous events
  • discussion problems and class exercises
  • an interdisciplinary approach that combines law, public policy, economics, and science
  • broad coverageand#8212;from environmental and land use law to insurance, tort law, and civil rights issues
  • discussion of public expectations of government response in crisis, compared to actual government and private sector preparedness and capabilities
  • examination of post disaster issues such as Medicaid, the role of environmental litigation, communications, law enforcement, evacuation, and the work of the Army Corps of Engineers on the levees in New Orleans

Adopting a wider perspective that looks at the legal ramifications of disasters across the United States and around the world, the Second Edition offers:

  • a new chapter on the causes of disasters and their relationship to laws designed to protect health, safety, and the environment
  • a new chapter on risk and uncertainty that examines the latest ideas to come out of economics, complexity theory, and organizational management
  • a new chapter on international disaster law that looks at recent developments in disaster-risk management, the protection of human rights, and the preservation of ecosystem services
    • Coverage includes discussion of the 2005 Asian Tsunami, Chinaand#8217;s Sechuan Earthquake, and Cycloe Nargis in Mynamar/Burma
  • a new chapter on recovery from disaster that features an extended class exercise

A unique and timely text in a burgeoning field, Disaster Law and Policy, Second Edition, is ideal for use in a seminar or a course on disaster issuesand#8212;or as a supplement in courses on environmental law or land use.

Read More
Professor Materials
Please sign in or register to view Professor Materials. These materials are only available for validated professor accounts. If you are registering for the first time, validation may take up to 2 business days.
Recommended materials for academic success
About the authors
Daniel A. Farber
University of California--Berkeley Law

Daniel Farber is the Sho Sato Professor of Law and chair of the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Faculty Director of the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment. Professor Farber serves on the editorial board of Foundation Press and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Law Institute. He is the editor of Issues in Legal Scholarship.

Professor Farber is a graduate of the University of Illinois, where he earned his B.A., M.A., and J.D. degrees. He graduated summa cum laude from the College of Law and was the class valedictorian. He also served as Editor-in-Chief of the University of Illinois Law Review. After graduation from law school, he was a law clerk for Judge Philip W. Tone of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and then for Justice John Paul Stevens of the Supreme Court of the United States. Professor Farber practiced law with Sidley Austin, where he primarily worked on energy issues, before joining the University of Illinois College of Law faculty in 1978.

He was a member of the University of Minnesota Law School faculty from 1981 to 2002. At Minnesota, he was the McKnight Presidential Professor of Public Law. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School, Harvard Law School, and the University of Chicago Law School. He was a co-founder and co-editor of Constitutional Commentary, a faculty-edited journal of constitutional law scholarship.

Robert Verchick

Rob Verchick, a nationally recognized expert in environmental law, heads Loyola's Center for Environmental Law and Land Use. He is a graduate of Stanford University and of Harvard Law School, where he served as Articles Editor for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Before coming to Loyola, he taught on the law faculty at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) for 11 years and, before that, practiced environmental law at Riddell Williams P.S. in Seattle. He has been a visiting professor at Peking University, Aarhus University (Denmark), Lewis & Clark College, and Seattle University. He has received teaching awards at Loyola University, UMKC, Seattle University, and Harvard University.

Verchick served for five years on the board of the Center for Progressive Reform, a policy institute dedicated to making a positive case for health, safety, and environmental protection. Verchick's scholarship focuses on environmental policy as it relates to constitutional law, environmental justice, risk management, and natural disaster. His work has appeared in, among other places, the California Law Review, the Southern California Law Review, and the Harvard Environmental Law Review. He is author or co-author of three books, including Facing Catastrophe: Environmental Action for a Post-Katrina World (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 2010).

Verchick is currently on leave from Loyola University and serving in the Obama administration. He is Deputy Associate Administrator at EPA's Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation in Washington, D.C.

Lisa Sun

Professor Sun teaches Disaster Law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Torts. Her primary research interest is in the emerging field of Disaster Law. She is coauthor of the leading disaster law textbook, Disaster Law and Policy, with Dan Farber, Jim Chen, and Rob Verchick. Her current research focuses on the implications of disaster mythology for our legal system of disaster response.
Product Information
Edition
Third Edition
Publication date
Copyright Year
2015
Pages
600
Digital Product
9781543809886
Subject
Environmental Law
Select Format Show Hide
Select Format Hide
Visit Partner Site
Are you an educator?