Governing Disasters

The Challenges of Emergency Risk Regulation

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2011
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-85793-572-4 (ISBN)

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Emergency crises have always tested our ability to organize and swiftly execute a coordinated response. Both natural and unnatural disasters pose new questions to which previous experience provides only limited answers. These challenges are arguably greater than ever, in a more globalized world confronted by a truly transnational hazard. This is the first volume that addresses the complexities of the volcanic ash cloud that overshadowed Europe in April 2011, but has subsequently struck again in Australia, Chile and Europe. It does so from a multidisciplinary perspective, drawing upon research from economics, law, sociology and other fields, as well as volcanology and leading expertise in jet engineering. While our knowledge base is wide-ranging, there is a common focus on the practical lessons of the ash cloud crisis both for subsequent eruptions and for emergency risk regulation more generally.

Among many other insights Governing Disasters explains why it was that industry and regulators were largely unprepared for a phenomenon about which we were not scientifically ignorant. It concludes that the toolbox of risk regulation should not be expected to provide ready-made solutions but applied flexibly, creatively and with some humility. This unique and timely resource will be useful to policy makers, scholars, officials of international organizations, research institutions and consumer groups who want to acquire or further develop their capacities for risk regulation. For teaching purposes it is ideal for courses on risk regulation, disaster law and policy, and crisis management or as a supplement in courses on environmental law, transport law, space law or land use.

Contributors: A. Alemanno, N. Bernard, V. Brannigan, C.M. Briggs, M. Broberg, A. Burgess, G.G. Castellano, S. Chakraborty, A. Fioritto, F. Hansstein, L. Jachia, A. Jeunemaitre, C. Johnson, C. Lawless, F.B. López-Jurado, D. Macrae, M. Mazzocchi, V. Nikonov, M. Ragona, M. Simoncini, A.M. Viens

Edited by Alberto Alemanno, Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law and Risk Regulation, HEC Paris, France and New York University, School of Law, New York, US

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

PART I: THE VOLCANIC ASH CRISIS: WHAT HAPPENED AND LESSONS LEARNED
1. What Happened and Lessons Learned: A European and International Perspective
Alberto Alemanno

2. Which Risk and Who Decides When There Are So Many Players?
Donald Macrae

3. The Financial Impact of the Volcanic Ash Crisis on the European Airline Industry
Maddalena Ragona, Francesca Hansstein and Mario Mazzocchi

PART II: REVISITING THE VOLCANIC ASH CRISIS: IDEOLOGIES, NARRATIVES AND COMMUNICATION OF EMERGENCY RISK REGULATION
4. Risk and the Role of Scientific Input for Contingency Planning: A Response to the April 2010 Eyjafjallajökull Volcano Eruption
Chris Johnson and Alain Jeunemaitre

5. Representing Emergency Risks: Media, Risks and ‘Acts of God’ in the Volcanic Ash Cloud
Adam Burgess

6. The Challenge of Emergency Risk Communication: Lessons Learned in Trust and Risk Communication from the Volcanic Ash Crisis
Sweta Chakraborty

PART III: BEYOND THE ASH CRISIS: THE MANY FACETS OF EMERGENCY RISK REGULATION
7. Paradigms Lost: Emergency Safety Regulation under Scientific and Technical Uncertainty
Vincent Brannigan

8. If and When: Towards Standard-based Regulation in the Reduction of Catastrophic Risks
Alfredo Fioritto and Marta Simoncini

9. Normative Uncertainty and Ethics in Emergency Risk Regulation
A.M. Viens

PART IV: THE ORGANIZATIONAL MECHANISMS OF EMERGENCY RISK REGULATION
10. Effective Regulatory Processes for Crisis Management: An Analysis of Codified Crisis Management in Europe
Lorenza Jachia and Valentin Nikonov

11. Abrupt Environmental Changes: Scenario Planning for Catastrophic Security Risks
Chad Michael Briggs

12. Systemic Risks and the Reformation of the European Union Law Concerning Network Industries
Francisco B. López-Jurado

PART V: AN EXAMPLE OF CODIFIED EMERGENCY RISK REGULATION: THE EU PASSENGERS’ RIGHTS REGULATION
13. Unexpected Turbulence: On the Application of the Denied Boarding Regulation to Exceptional Situations
Morten Broberg

14. The Volcanic Ash Crisis and EU Air Passenger Rights
Nick Bernard

PART VI: NEW IDEAS FOR EMERGENCY RISK REGULATION
15. The Fallout from the Fallout: Hazards, Risks and Organizational Learning
Christopher Lawless

16. Rising from the Ashes: A Governance Perspective on Emerging Systemic Risks
Giuliano G. Castellano

Epilogue
Alberto Alemanno

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.10.2011
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	0-85793-572-0 / 0857935720
ISBN-13	978-0-85793-572-4 / 9780857935724
Zustand	Neuware