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Full-Text Articles in Disaster Law
11th Marine Law Symposium: Legal Strategies For Climate Adaptation In Coastal New England 2018, Roger Williams University School Of Law
11th Marine Law Symposium: Legal Strategies For Climate Adaptation In Coastal New England 2018, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Marine Affairs Institute Conferences, Lectures, and Events
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Law School News: Marine Law Symposium At Rwu Law To Focus On Legal Strategies For Climate Adaptation 11/08/2018, Edward Fitzpatrick
Law School News: Marine Law Symposium At Rwu Law To Focus On Legal Strategies For Climate Adaptation 11/08/2018, Edward Fitzpatrick
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Crisis Management: Principles That Should Guide The Disposition Of Federally Owned, Foreclosed Properties, Raymond Brescia, Elizabeth A. Kelly, John Travis Marshall
Crisis Management: Principles That Should Guide The Disposition Of Federally Owned, Foreclosed Properties, Raymond Brescia, Elizabeth A. Kelly, John Travis Marshall
Faculty Publications By Year
Residential home values in the United States have fallen considerably from their highs in the mid-2000s. This has had profound effects on consumer wealth and spending, creating a significant drag on the U.S. economy. What is worse, this loss in values corresponded with a steep rise in unemployment, which started in late 2007, and has yet to fall considerably. The loss in home values has wreaked havoc on household finances, and bank ledgers, as the outstanding principles of the mortgages those banks hold and service all too often exceed the current value of the homes against which they are secured. …
Disaster Mitigation Through Land Use Strategies, John R. Nolon
Disaster Mitigation Through Land Use Strategies, John R. Nolon
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The persistent question this book raises is who should decide whether and how to mitigate the damages caused by natural disasters. Our understandable preoccupation with response, recovery, and rebuilding makes it hard to focus on this question as a central, even relevant, one. But it persists, nonetheless. The high-profile “blame game” played following Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of the Gulf Coast is emblematic. In pointing fingers first at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), then at the city of New Orleans, and then at the state of Louisiana, public officials exhibited an appalling lack of understanding of the roles that each …