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The private security industry has become an established component in the conflict and disaster zones where the Australian Government operates and looks set to be an enduring feature of the security landscape. Overview In the conflict and disaster zones where Australia's military, representatives and aid workers have deployed in the past two decades, private security companies (PSCs) have been a feature of the operating environment, used by other governments, militaries, non-government organisations and multinational companies. Now, PSCs have become an integral part of Australian Government operations overseas. They are employed to secure diplomats in high threat environments, assess security at Australian facilities, and to protect government officials during overseas visits. In Australia'sregion too, PSCs are becoming more common, particularly in Papua New Guinea and on commercialshipping in the Indian Ocean. This paper tracks the development of the private security industry and its relevance to Australia. It illustrates how and where PSCs operate and considers the lessons learned from a decade of employing PSCs—particularly those operating in war zones. It tracks the various international effortsunderway to regulate and improve the private security industry, as well as the current and futureissues Australians should be aware of when interacting with PSCs.

The private security industry has become an established component in the conflict and disaster zones where the Australian Government operates and looks set to be an enduring feature of the security landscape. Although behind the United States, United Kingdom and South Africa, Australia is now a substantial contributor to the global private security industry. Australian companies provide security services across the globe, from Asia to Africa, to governments and private clients alike. Many Australians, mostly former ADF personnel, work as contractors for PSCs—leveraging their military skills to protect infrastructure and individuals. Australians are key players in the private security industry, relied upon for their expertise, combat experience and interoperability with US and UK militaries and private security operators. The Australian Government has been forging a greater leadership role in the private security arena. Australia has been among the most forthright supporters of nascent initiatives designed to regulate the established private security industry. Australian diplomats, academic specialists and international legal experts have actively driven initiatives like the Montreux Document, the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers, and the development of international standards for the private security industry. In August 2013, Australia become a foundation member and key government supporter of the Association of the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers, contributing seed funding to this non-government organisation (NGO), which aims to provide a forumto oversee PSC operations.

The article considers the legal regime of environmental disaster zones and emergency zones. The author refers to the legal regulation of these zones that existed in the 90s of the XX century. Further, a detailed description of the history of the development and consideration of the draft law "On the status of environmental disaster zones and the regulation of economic and other activities on their territory" is given: its advantages and disadvantages are evaluated, and possible reasons for the rejection of this draft law are clarified. The article also analyzes the current Russian environmental legislation, which regulates the basis of the legal regime of environmental disaster zones through migration, registration, environmental protection and criminal law rules. It is concluded that it is absolutely necessary to develop the Federal Law "On Environmental Disaster Zones in the Russian Federation".

Prologue: Solid vapor -- The school beneath the wave -- Having gone, I will come -- Where are the children? -- Jigoku -- Area of search -- Abundant nature -- The mud -- The old and the young -- Explanations -- Ghosts -- What it's all about? -- What happened at Okawa -- Last hour of the old world -- Inside the tsunami -- The river of three crossings -- The invisible monster -- In the web -- What use is the truth? -- The tsunami is not water -- Predestination -- The rough, steep path -- There may be gaps in memory -- Gone altogether beyond -- Consolation of the spirits -- Save don't fall to sea

Joshua Clark never left New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, choosing instead to band together with fellow holdouts in the French Quarter, pooling resources and volunteering energy in an effort to save the city they loved. When Katrina hit, Clark, a key correspondent for National Public Radio during the storm, immediately began to record hundreds of hours of conversations with its victims, not only in the city but throughout the Gulf: the devastated poor and rich alike; rescue workers from around the country; reporters; local characters who could exist nowhere else but New Orleans; politicians; the woman Clark loved, in a relationship ravaged by the storm. Their voices resound throughout this memoir of a unique and little-known moment of anarchy and chaos, of heartbreaking kindness and incomprehensible anguish, of mercy and madness as only America could deliver it.--From publisher description

Over the last decade, the U.S. federal government has increasingly turned to spatially targeted tax incentives to promote postdisaster revitalization. The logic behind this policy orientation is that targeting public subsidies to particular disaster zones will speed community recovery and encourage business reinvestment. To evaluate this claim, this paper uses the case of the Gulf Opportunity (GO) Zone of 2005 that provided tax incentives to businesses in the Gulf Coast area affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita from 2006 through December 2011. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative data, I find that damage was not a consistently significant determinant of GO Zone bond allocation at the parish level. Rather, GO Zone bonds were mainly allocated in low–damage areas and underutilized in New Orleans and heavily damaged areas. Though policy makers designed the program to stimulate small business recovery, GO Zone benefits went to large businesses located in areas least damaged by the hurricanes. Overall, the allocation of bonds using a first–come, first–served strategy combined with the huge size of the GO Zone reduced the effectiveness of the incentives offered and reinforced the disincentives for locating business and investment in disaster–devastated areas.