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Disasters and Democracy: The Politics Of Extreme Natural Events
Island Press, 1999 eISBN: 978-1-61091-263-1 | Paper: 978-1-55963-696-4 Library of Congress Classification HV555.U6P53 1999 Dewey Decimal Classification 363.340973
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In recent years, the number of presidential declarations of “major disasters” has skyrocketed. Such declarations make stricken areas eligible for federal emergency relief funds that greatly reduce their costs. But is federalizing the costs of disasters helping to lighten the overall burden of disasters or is it making matters worse? Does it remove incentives for individuals and local communities to take measures to protect themselves? Are people more likely to invest in property in hazardous locations in the belief that, if worse comes to worst, the federal government will bail them out? Disasters and Democracy addresses the political response to natural disasters, focusing specifically on the changing role of the federal government from distant observer to immediate responder and principal financier of disaster costs. See other books on: Disaster relief | Disasters | Meteorology & Climatology | Natural disasters | Platt, Rutherford H. See other titles from Island Press |
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Disasters and Democracy: The Politics Of Extreme Natural Events
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
Island Press, 1999
eISBN: 978-1-61091-263-1
Paper: 978-1-55963-696-4
eISBN: 978-1-61091-263-1
Paper: 978-1-55963-696-4
In recent years, the number of presidential declarations of “major disasters” has skyrocketed. Such declarations make stricken areas eligible for federal emergency relief funds that greatly reduce their costs. But is federalizing the costs of disasters helping to lighten the overall burden of disasters or is it making matters worse? Does it remove incentives for individuals and local communities to take measures to protect themselves? Are people more likely to invest in property in hazardous locations in the belief that, if worse comes to worst, the federal government will bail them out?
Disasters and Democracy addresses the political response to natural disasters, focusing specifically on the changing role of the federal government from distant observer to immediate responder and principal financier of disaster costs.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
