
Law and the Management of Disasters
The Challenge of Resilience
- 280 pages
- English
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Law and the Management of Disasters
The Challenge of Resilience
About this book
Disasters raise serious challenges for contemporary legal orders: they demand significant management, but usually amidst massive disruption to the normal functioning of state authority and society. When dealing with disasters, law has traditionally focused on contingency planning and recovery. More recently, however, 'resilience' has emerged as a key concept in effective disaster management policies and strategies, aiming at minimising the impact of events, so that the normal functioning of society and the state can be preserved. This book analyses the contribution of law to resilience building by looking at law's role in the different phases of the disaster regulatory process: risk assessment, risk management, emergency intervention, and recovery. More specifically, it addresses how law can effectively contribute to resilience-oriented distaster management policies, and what legal instruments can support effective resilience-building.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Table of cases
- Underpinning the role of law in disaster resilience. An introduction
- PART I Risk assessment in the light of resilience
- PART II Risk regulation under resilience
- PART III Disaster relief and resilience
- PART IV In the aftermath: Towards resilient recovery
- Conclusions One law to bind them all: International law and disaster resilience
- Bibliography of reference
- Index