The role of international environmental law in disaster risk reduction / edited by Jacqueline Peel and David Fisher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stanford University. Environmental & Natural Resources Law & Policy Program.

Peel, Jacqueline, 1974- editor.

Fisher, David (Writer on disaster law), editor.

Series:

International Environmental Law 12.

International Environmental Law, 1873-6599 ; Volume 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hazard mitigation--Law and legislation--Congresses.

Hazard mitigation.

Environmental law, International--Congresses.

Environmental law, International.

Climatic changes--Law and legislation--Congresses.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (502 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, [Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In The Role of International Environmental Law in Disaster Risk Reduction , edited by Jacqueline Peel and David Fisher, expert authors from four continents offer perspectives on the growing intersection between environmental law and disaster risk management. Chapters discuss the potential for retasking environmental law tools and principles for purposes of mitigating the harms of potential disasters, including those exacerbated by climate change, and approaches for linking institutions and approaches across the environmental, climate adaptation and disaster risk management fields internationally. This book illustrates the blurring distinction between natural and manmade disasters and the consequences for legal norms and practice in the formerly distinct areas of international environmental law and international disaster law.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

1 International Law at the Intersection of Environmental Protection and Disaster Risk Reduction / Jacqueline Peel and David Fisher

2 Climate Change and the Narrative of Disaster / Lisa Grow Sun

3 Disaster Law in the Anthropocene / Daniel Farber

4 A Capabilities Approach to Defining Climate Disasters / Rosemary Lyster

5 Resilient Incoherence—Seeking Common Language for Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Sustainable Development / Anne Siders

6 Disastrous Adaptation / Cinnamon P. Carlarne

7 Disaster Risk Assessment: An Appraisal of European Union Environmental Law / Denis Edwards

8 The Potential Role of International Environmental and Water Law to Prevent and Mitigate Water-Related Disasters / A. Dan Tarlock

9 Water Treaty Regimes as a Vehicle for Cooperation to Reduce Water-Related Disaster Risk: The Case of Southern Africa and the Zambesi Basin / Mary Picard

10 Valuing Foreign Disasters in International Environmental Law / Arden Rowell and Lesley Wexler

11 Liability and Compensation as Instruments of Disaster Risk Reduction? / Michael G. Faure

12 The UN SDGs and Environmental Law: Cooperative Remedies for Natural Disaster Risks / Nicholas A. Robinson

13 International Frameworks Governing Environmental Emergency Preparedness and Response: An Assessment of Approaches / Carl Bruch , Rene Nijenhuis and Shanna N. McClain

14 Preventing and Responding to Arctic Offshore Drilling Disasters: The Role of Hybrid Cooperation / Hari M. Osofsky , Jessica Shadian and Sara L. Fechtelkotter

15 Overlapping International Disaster Law Approaches with International Environmental Law Regimes to Address Latent Ecological Disaster / Anastasia Telesetsky

16 Afterword: Environmental Disasters and Human Rights / John H. Knox

Index.

Notes:

"The genesis for this book was a workshop on "How Can International Environmental Law Reduce Disaster Risk?" held at Stanford Law School on May 21-22, 2015 ... sponsored by the Stanford Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy Program ..." -- ECIP Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-31881-X

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004318816 DOI