A Research Agenda for Disaster Law.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cubie, Dug.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2025.

Summary:

This timely Research Agenda provides both an introduction to the field of disaster law and a detailed critique of current debates in law and practice. It analyses legal rights and obligations against the background of devastating impacts of natural and human-made hazards, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and pandemics.

Contents:

Introduction / Dug Cubie

Defining a discipline / W. John Hopkins

An analysis of the codification of disaster law / Susan C. Breau

Mapping the terrain / Işıl Aral

Ethics leads / Lauren Traczykowski

Volcanoes and the law / Holly Faulkner

Who is vulnerable in disasters? / Karen da Costa

Disaster risk governance and institutions in neo-normal risk paradigms / Gatkuoth Kai

Climate change and disaster law / Chhaya Bhardwaj

Environmental destruction and the root causes of disaster risk / Marie Aronsson-Storrier

The nexus of law, climate displacement and disaster recovery / Stella Ngugi

Intersectional approaches to disasters / Gabrielle Simm

Space law, remote sensing and disaster law / Anna Marie Brennan and Alex Davis.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-03-537995-3

1-03-533190-X

9781035331901

OCLC:

1560060449