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Annotation:This 40-page document summarizes a survey that was intended to measure current experience in the disaster management and humanitarian sector about the most pressing regulatory and protection issues in domestic and international disaster relief operations. Coordination problems in both international and domestic response operations were identified as the most frequent types of regulatory issues, as well as those with the highest impacts on the efficiency and effectiveness of disaster response operations....[See more] [See less]