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Alemanno, Alberto --- "Epilogue" [2011] ELECD 925; 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: Epilogue

Author(s): Alemanno, Alberto

Number of pages: 4

Extract:

Epilogue
Alberto Alemanno

One of the less heralded consequences of globalization is the emergence of
crises of escalating magnitude that, due to their systemic impact, test our
ability to organize and swiftly execute a coordinated response. Yet truly
global institutions, such as the World Health Organization, the Food and
Agricultural Organization, and the International Atomic Energy Agency,
to mention a few, govern only specific domains and do not cover all areas of
human activity. Against this backdrop, this book explored the challenges of
emergency risk regulation, by initially taking the response to the volcanic
ash crisis to explore the general problem of emergency response in an
environment where ­ as recently showed by the 2011 Japan tsunami ­ the
lines between manufactured and natural risks are increasingly blurred. A
tsunami, generated in turn by an earthquake, damaged the Fukushima
Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, transforming a geophysical disaster into a
nuclear threat.
This book, due to its interdisciplinary approach, represents an original
attempt to capture the key insights that have emerged in the different
scholarly contributions to the field of risk regulation, by focusing on the
notion of emergency risk regulation. Building on a diverse range of contri-
butions, it draws lessons from the emergency regulatory response provided
to the volcanic ash crisis and other contingencies and attempts at generaliz-
ing some of them to future emergency situations. In so doing, it conceptu-
alizes the notion of `emergency risk regulation'. Each chapter, by relying on
a different disciplinary perspective, identifies a number ...