Drawing on international, state and private sector case studies and a global survey, this book examines local engagement in disaster relief.

Shahla F. Ali is Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of Law and Deputy Director of the LL.M. in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution at the Faculty of Law at The University of Hong Kong.

Part I. Introduction: 1. New governance and humanitarian aid; 2. Legal background: post-disaster humanitarian aid law and policy; Part II. International-Led Response: 3. Theory and practice of international response; 4. Indonesia's tsunami of 2004; 5. The Haitian earthquake of 2010; Part III. State-Led Response: 6. Theory and practice of state-led response; 7. The Thai flood of 2011; 8. Japan's Tohoku earthquake and tsunami 2011; 9. Hurricane Katrina; Part IV. Examining Public-Private Partnerships: 10. Myanmar's Cyclone Nargis of 2008; 11. Public-private partnerships through crowd-sourced; 12. Governance and humanitarian aid survey data; 13. Conclusions: lessons learned/policy suggestions.