Catastrophe
Subtitle: law, politics, and the humanitarian impulse
By: edited by Austin Sarat and Javier Lezaun.
Contributors: Lezaun, Javier.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781558497382; 9781558497375
Subjects: Disaster relief -- Law and legislation -- United States; Emergency management -- Law and legislation -- United States; Disaster relief -- Political aspects -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Crisis and catastrophe in science and law : mapping the terrain / Peter H. Schuck; title: The real third rail of American politics / Michele Landis Dauber; title: New Orleans everywhere : bureaucratic accountability and housing policy after Katrina / Susan M. Sterett; title: Emergency management and the courts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina / Thomas A. Birkland; title: Environmental right-to-know and the transmutations of law / Kim Fortun; title: Reintegration, or the explosive remnants of war / Peter Redfield, Edward B. Rackley.