Disaster Legal Relief and Homeland Security

Argues for federal funding of legal services in the future Homeland Security budget geared toward addressing complicated issues of disposition of goods and entitlements in the wake of complicated major disasters. Cites pro bono services of lawyers in regard to disposition of cases arising from 9/11.

Hodge, N. (2005, April). State of denial: accepting liability is rarely easy. Financial Management, 16-19.

Discusses "corporate social responsibility," which reaches the idea of government social responsibility and legal vagaries of geopolitics. The problem is that first-world governments have a habit of shielding multinational corporations for liabilities incurred by damage in the third world.

Jansz, P. (2001, September 16). Mobility is the key to disaster planning: A mobile office system can be had with laptops, cell phones, pagers and daily data backup. New Jersey Law Journal, 169, 30.

Though technology can be very vulnerable in a disaster, optical and digital software plus laptops and mobile communications could save an entire office operation. This article happens to be in a law journal, and the legal obligations of attorneys are perhaps at heightened risk if their physical records were to disappear. But any office- and records-oriented organization might benefit from the wisdom of planning in advance

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ith quality (or lack of quality) of governance and institutions in a civil state. Algeria is a case study in problems because of its corrupt privatization schemes, revelation of multiple financial scandals, and ongoing civil war against Muslim extremists. The country's only real asset is natural gas, and pipeline construction will not be complete until 2010. Barta, S., Homm, L., & Woods, M. D. (2003). Rebuilding after natural disaster: A targeted economic development approach. Journal of the Community Development Society, 34, 107-124. A case study of a rural community that attracted economic redevelopment funds from corporate sources in the wake of a natural disaster by using a "targeted" approach to recruiting institutions and personnel to "industry clusters" of interdependent firms. (Curiously, this article chronicles development of a cottage industry in wine in central Oklahoma). Morrison, M., & Scalingi, P.L. (2003, December). Power to the people: Because of an innovative partnership for regional infrastructure security, the U.S. Northwest is better prepared for disaster. Security Management, 47, 93-99. This is a success story relevant to economic recovery because of what it plans for: an account of how communities in
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Approximate Word count = 1434
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)

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