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There has been increased attention to the topics of disaster recovery and disaster resilience over the past several years, particularly as catastrophic events such as Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy have brought to light the increasing vulnerability of so many communities. This manuscript brings together existing research, along with policy analysis, in order to look at disaster recovery through the lens of justice. This includes understanding the mechanisms through which vulnerability is exacerbated, and the extent to which the regulations and agency cultures drive this outcome. While existing analyses have sought to understand the particular characteristics of both resilient and vulnerable communities, there have been few attempts to understand the systemic inequities and injustice that is built into United States disaster policies, programs, and legislation. This manuscript thus begins from the understanding that social and economic structures, including land use policies and historic practices such as redlining, have concentrated hazard risk into vulnerable zones whose inhabitants do not benefit from the very policies that create and increase their risk. .

Political science. --- Public policy. --- Public administration. --- Governance and Government. --- Public Policy. --- Public Administration. --- Administration, Public --- Delivery of government services --- Government services, Delivery of --- Public management --- Public sector management --- Political science --- Administrative law --- Decentralization in government --- Local government --- Public officers --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The

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This open access book explores the intersection of property law, relocation, and resettlement processes in the United States and among communities that grapple with migration as an adaptation strategy. As communities face the prospect of relocating because of rising seas, policy makers, disaster specialists, and community leaders are scrambling to understand what adaptation pathways are legally possible. While in its ideal application, law functions blindly and without variation, the authors find that legal contradictions come to bear on resettlement processes and place certain communities further in harm’s way. This book will unearth these contradictions in order to understand why successful community-based resettlement has presented such a challenge to communities that are experiencing increasing land deterioration as a result of climate change. Alessandra Jerolleman is Associate Professor of Emergency Management, Jacksonville State University, USA. Elizabeth Marino is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sustainability, Oregon State University, USA. Nathan Jessee is Postdoctoral Environmental Fellow at Princeton University's High Meadows Environmental Institute, USA. Liz Koslov is Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, USA. Chantel Comardelle, Jean Charles Choctaw Nation, Tribal Secretary and Curator. Melissa Villarreal is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder, USA. Daniel de Vries is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Simon Manda is Lecturer in International Development at the University of Leeds, UK.

Environmental policy. --- Emigration and immigration --- Environmental Law. --- America --- Social justice. --- Environmental Policy. --- Migration Policy. --- American Politics. --- Social Justice. --- Government policy. --- Politics and government.