Extreme Events: Legal and Policy Challenges in Managing Crises

by Timothy Legrand, Saskia Hufnagel, Saskia Maria Hufnagel

A procession of natural disasters and other extreme events continues to wreak considerable damage on Western societies and their economies. Man-made threats, both real and perceived, present an unsettling outlook: chemical, nuclear and biological terrorism, cyber-attacks and industrial accidents are ever-present concerns. At the same time, the complex, overlapping and highly diversified layers of regulatory and political environments compound the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147241361X
• ISBN13: 9781472413611
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages