Natural Disaster Relief & Scarce Resources

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• KEY ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES I’M ADDRESSING: Institutions

• OVERALL RESEARCH QUESTION: How should government institutions (e.g. FEMA, Congress, etc.) allocate scarce resources for natural disaster relief?

• SUB QUESTIONS

• What are the current levels of federal funding and how is it currently allocated?
• What is a natural disaster and what does it take for it to be qualified as one?
• What happens when state of emergencies are put in place?
• Who can more effectively provide aid, the government or private companies?
  
  
• RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH: http://www.fireengineering.com/articles/print/volume-169/issue-9/features/the-economics-of-natural-disasters-mitigating-the-impact.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

• DATABASES: Global Issues in Context & National Geographic
• WEBSITES: Unicef & Fema