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Title:

Catastrophe : law, politics, and the humanitarian impulse / edited by Austin Sarat and Javier Lezaun.

Publisher:

University of Massachusetts Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

vii, 202 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Disaster relief--Law and legislation--United States.
Emergency management--Law and legislation--United States.
Disaster relief--Political aspects--United States.

Other Authors:

Sarat, Austin.
Lezaun, Javier.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Crisis and catastrophe in science, law, and politics : mapping the terrain / Peter H. Schuck -- The real third rail of American politics / Michele Landis Dauber -- New Orleans everywhere : bureaucratic accountability and housing policy after Katrina / Susan M. Sterett -- Emergency management and the courts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina / Thomas A. Birkland -- Environmental right-to-know and the transmutations of law / Kim Fortun -- Reintegration, or the explosive remnants of war / Peter Redfield, Edward B. Rackley.

ISBN:

1558497382 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781558497382 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1558497374 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781558497375 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)368046200

LCCN:

2009039768

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)