Disasters And Democracy By Rutherford H. Platt Essay

As stated above, The book I chose to do for the book report is called â€Å"Disasters and Democracy†. It was written by Rutherford H. Platt in 1999. Rutherford Platt is an urban writer and lecturer from Massachusetts. He is also professor emeritus of geography at the University of Massachusetts, a faculty associate with the lincoln Institute of Land policy, and he is also a scholar with the Penn Institute of Urban Research. He also holds degrees from Yale, and University of Chicago. This book addresses the response to natural disasters, focusing on how the governments role changes, It traces the evolution of federal disaster assistance role and major programs, reviews constitutional law on the â€Å"taking issue† as it applies to hazardous areas and gives a summary of ideas for policy recommendations, Also the book goes along with the class because it has to do with hazards and the federal planning that goes along with the disasters. Rutherford is trying to prove wheth er Public policy helps or causes more problems with natural disasters by federalizing the disasters. â€Å"Disasters and Democracy† traces back throughout different case studies from different decades to analyze the effect of federalizing disasters. An example of a case study used is the Bay area and the disasters it went through in the 1900s. This book is intended to reach people who are interested in policy, and this is because first off this is what the book is mainly about, but Platt goes in through detail ways to move