1. Introduction -- 2. The Rules of the Game and Post-disaster Rebuilding and Recovery -- 3. Government as Gardener: Cultivating the Environment for Private Sector Natural Disaster Response -- 4. The Role of the Local Emergency Manager in a Centralized System of Disaster Management -- 5....

"Beginning with the 2008 global crisis in the United States, and particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic shook economies around the world, academics, practitioners, and other experts have become increasingly sensitised to the potential for financial and economic fragility to result in a...