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"Contents" [2011] ELECD 902; in Alemanno, Alberto (ed), "Governing Disasters" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: Governing Disasters

Editor(s): Alemanno, Alberto

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9780857935724

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

Contents
Figures and boxes viii
Tables ix
Contributors x
Acronyms xv
Preface xvii
Introduction xix

PART 1 THE VOLCANIC ASH CRISIS: WHAT HAPPENED AND
LESSONS LEARNED

1. What happened and lessons learned: a European and
international perspective 3
Alberto Alemanno

2. Which risk and who decides when there are so many players? 13
Donald Macrae

3. The financial impact of the volcanic ash crisis on the European
airline industry 27
Maddalena Ragona, Francesca Hansstein and Mario Mazzocchi

PART 2 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 51
Chris Johnson and Alain Jeunemaitre

5. Representing emergency risks: media, risk and `acts of God' in
the volcanic ash cloud 65
Adam Burgess




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6. The challenge of emergency risk communication: lessons learned
in trust and risk communication from the volcanic ash crisis 80
Sweta Chakraborty

PART 3 BEYOND THE ASH CRISIS: THE MANY FACETS OF
EMERGENCY RISK REGULATION

7. Paradigms lost: emergency safety regulation under scientific
and technical uncertainty 101
Vincent Brannigan

8. If and when: towards standard-based regulation in the
reduction of catastrophic risks 115
Alfredo Fioritto and Marta Simoncini

9. Normative uncertainty and ethics in emergency risk regulation 137
A.M. Viens

PART 4 THE ORGANIZATIONAL MECHANISMS OF
EMERGENCY RISK REGULATION

10. Effective regulatory processes for crisis management: an
analysis of codified crisis management in Europe 149
Lorenza Jachia ...