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Since late 2005, Boalt and a number of UC Berkeley departments, including civil and geologic engineering, public health, city and regional planning, and business, have begun to collaborate on the many responses that climate change and aging levee infrastructures have necessitated. Obviously, the August 2005 Katrina disaster has shown the nation that coordinated responses must be designed and implemented. UC Berkeley, with its leading research centers – located in California, the cutting-edge lens for environmental solutions – is aggressively pursuing policies that will guide the nation through the inevitable future disasters as global warming increases.
We have developed a number of resources to address these environmental crises.
Curriculum
In spring of 2006, Professor Farber designed a course, “Disasters and the Law: The Legal Implications of Hurricane Katrina,” culminating in a day-long presentation of student papers. The issues addressed by the class included disaster planning and prevention, torts/compensation, environmental law, land use planning, social justice, and tax and insurance/reinsurance.
Jurisdynamics Blog
Boalt faculty participate in this blog, which discusses disaster issues, along with more general coverage of environmental law and other topics.
www.jurisdynamics.org
Disaster Law Library Database
Professor Farber, Boalt Hall library staff, and graduate students have assembled links to a variety of topics relating to the law’s response to natural disasters. The database integrates knowledge and experience from fields as diverse as urban planning, bankruptcy law, and wetlands banking. This is one way in which the legal community may be able to provide advice and assistance to governance and individuals.
www.law.berkeley.edu/library/disasters.html
UC Berkeley's Center for Catastrophic Risk Management (CCRM)
This group consists of twelve professors in such varied disciplines as law, civil engineering, agricultural and resource economics, business, structural engineering, city and regional planning, management, environmental engineering, and geologic engineering. The issues addressed by this faculty group include the following:
- Global disaster preparedness
- Domestic security
- Environmental management for crisis
- Public health crisis management
- Social and economic renewal
- Infrastructure and technological renewal
- Preparedness and recovery of impacted individuals
- Emergency decision making
- Landscape architecture and environmental planning
Related conferences include:
For more information, see the CCRM website at iber.berkeley.edu/ccrm/ |
