Disaster Labs
How American States Use Partnerships to Manage the Unthinkable
Austen D. Givens
DOI: 10.56686/9781732003101
ABOUT THE BOOK
Disaster Labs explores how state governments partner with businesses and nonprofits to manage large-scale emergencies in California, Florida, New York, and Virginia. For these disaster-management collaborations to continue, state governments, businesses, and nonprofits must plan now for their future. These collaborations also need the freedom to shape their partnerships in each of their unique state environments. Each state has distinct attributes that make state-level partnerships attractive. These range from differing types of disasters, political environments, nonprofit sectors, and commercial entities. Without undue federal interference, these state-level, public-private partnerships work best to achieve results and provide relief to disaster-prone areas.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Austen D. Givens is associate professor of cybersecurity at Utica College. He is the coauthor of the 2014 book The Business of Counterterrorism: Public-Private Partnerships in Homeland Security, which former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge called “a must-read.” His previous work has appeared in The Cyber Defense Review, published by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point; and Homeland Security Affairs, published by the Naval Postgraduate School, among other outlets. Givens received his PhD in public policy from the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapters:
1. The Rise of State Disaster-Oriented Public-Private Partnerships
2. California Dreaming?
3. Disaster-Oriented PPPs in Florida
4. The Divided Empire State
5. Disasters in the Old Dominion
6. Toward New Understandings of State Disaster-Oriented PPPs
Epilogue:
The 2019 Coronavirus Disease
Appendix A:
Interview Participants
Appendix B:
Interview Questions
Appendix C:
Human Subjects Protection
Bibliography