Author : Austin Givens
Release : 2016
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Download or read book Disasters Inc written by Austin Givens. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States governments routinely partner with businesses to manage the effects of natural and man-made disasters. However, understandings of these public-private sector partnerships in US emergency management ("disasteroriented PPPs") remain limited. This thesis applies and tests an eight factor analytical framework, originally developed to evaluate federal-level disasteroriented PPPs, and assesses whether the framework is also viable to evaluate disaster-oriented PPPs in the states of California, Florida, New York, and Virginia. This thesis represents the first comparative scholarly analysis of statelevel disaster-oriented PPPs in the United States. The viability of the analytical framework is assessed as follows. First, the thesis situates the analytical framework within the broader public policy literature on evaluations of public sector partnerships, and argues that the selected analytical framework is appropriate to the present study precisely because it was created to assess disaster-oriented PPPs. Second, the analytical framework is applied and tested against the four case studies of current state-level disasteroriented PPPs in California, Florida, New York, and Virginia to determine if the framework is suitable for evaluations of state-level disaster-oriented PPPs. Next, the thesis argues that understanding state-level disaster-oriented PPPs requires the consideration of the role of non-profit and industry organizations. The thesis closes by arguing that, based upon the conclusions developed in preceding chapters, federal government officials should not seek to impose a standardized framework for disaster-oriented PPPs on state governments, for to do so risks dampening state-level policy innovations in emergency management.