Full Description
This book looks at how legal frameworks can and do reduce risks arising out of disasters. The volume:
analyses existing disaster laws and the challenges on the ground;
brings together case studies from some of the most vulnerable regions; and
proposes solutions to avert existing and possible future crises.
The book offers appropriate legal frameworks for disaster management which could not only offer sustainable institutional reforms towards community resilience and preparedness but also reduce risk within the frameworks of justice, equity and accountability. It examines the intricacies of governance within which governments function and discusses how recent trends in infrastructure development and engineering technology could be balanced within the legal principles of ethics, transparency and integrity. The chapters in the volume suggest that legal frameworks ought to resonate with new challenges of resource management and climate change. Further, these frameworks could help secure citizens' trust, institutional accountability and effective implementation through an unceasing partnership which keeps the community better prepared and more resilient.
This volume will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of disaster management, law, public policy, environment and development studies as well as policymakers and those in administrative, governmental, judicial and development sectors.
Contents
List of Figures. List of tables. Contributors. Preface. List of abbreviations. IntroductionPart I: Disaster Law: Content and Correlations 1. Disaster Law and the post-Hyogo Pedagogical Change in the Framework of Governance 2. Disaster Laws: Saving lives, reducing risk in the Asia Pacific 3. Disasters: An ubiquitous legal framework in Ancient BCE Literature Part II: Country Specific Disaster Laws 4. The Landscape of Disaster Management in Pakistan: Gaps in the Legal Framework 5. Disaster Law and Community Resilience in Bangladesh 6. International Disaster Response Law in China: A Study on Strengthening National Disaster Response Legislation 7. Interrogating Disaster Law in India 8. Interrogating the trajectory of disaster laws in India Part III: International Legal Framework of Disaster Management 9. Overcoming the Patriarchal Insulation of International Legal Framework 10. Interrogating the Pedagogy of State Responsibility and Individual Rights in Disaster Law 11. Disaster Law, ICT and Performance through 'Standard Setting' in Disaster Law 12. Building National Resilience through International Law Part IV: The Wide Eyed Slippages of Disaster Law 13. Corruption in Humanitarian Assistance: Challenges and Opportunities 14. A Legal Framework to Prevent Trafficking of Women and Young Girls During Disasters in India 15. Disability, Disaster and the Law: Developing a Mandate for Disability Inclusive Law Making Process for Disaster Risk Reduction 16. Anthropogenic Disaster Economics and the Non-human Species 17. Gender and Trafficking 18. Techno-Legal Regime for safety against Natural Hazards 19. Post-Disaster Medical Services: Can Law Ensure Services?Part V: Case Specific Studies 20. Interrogating Right to Compensation in Disaster Laws: A Case Study of Kashmir Floods 21. Unanswered questions in Disaster Preparedness and the Right to Information 22. Can Laws Ensure Disaster Risk Reduction? A Study of Mandarmoni Sea Beach in West Bengal 23. Disaster Risk Reduction and City Governance Part VI: Epilogue24. Disaster Laws: The Way Forward. Index
