ABSTRACT
CONTENTS The Border and Disaster Response.......................................................... 246
A Bottom-Up System..................................................................... 246 The Red River Flood of 1997 ................................................................. 249
The Event ...................................................................................... 250 The U.S. Response......................................................................... 250 The U.S. Recovery ......................................................................... 252 U.S. Mitigation .............................................................................. 254 The Canadian Response................................................................. 255 The Canadian Recovery ................................................................. 257 Canadian Mitigation ...................................................................... 258
Cross-Border Cooperation....................................................................... 258 References ............................................................................................... 263
Disaster management deals with the adoption and implementation of policies addressing the four phases of a disaster: planning and preparation, response, recovery, and mitigation.
