Financing Recovery from Large-Scale Natural Disasters

King, Rawle O.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Disasters;    Emergency management;    Disaster relief;    Crisis management;    Hurricanes;   

RP-ID  :  RL34749
RP-ID  :  RL34749_2008Nov18

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

Two important issues before Congress are (1) securing the nation's capacity to prepare for, respond to, and recover/rebuild from natural catastrophe events, and (2) determining whether and how the federal government should intervene in catastrophe insurance markets. This report focuses on this issue at length, taking into consideration the Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2004 and 2005; a sequence of tornadoes, wildfire, earthquakes, Hurricanes Ike and Gustav, and the 2008 Midwestern floods; and the financial market turmoil in 2008.