{"product_id":"disaster-law-emerging-thresholds-9780367277765","title":"Disaster Law Emerging Thresholds","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book looks at how legal frameworks can and do reduce risks arising out of disasters. The volume:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eanalyses existing disaster laws and the challenges on the ground;\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003ebrings together case studies from some of the most vulnerable regions; and\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003eproposes solutions to avert existing and possible future crises. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 citizensâ trust, institutional accountability and effective implementation through an unceasing partnership which keeps the community better prepared and more resilient.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘This book is a significant step toward a better understanding of how legal frameworks promote incentives for undertaking risk reduction activities, and how disaster risk reduction (DRR) in turn, help advance legal reform, which includes migrating away from old ways and aligning laws so that they can deliver fresh results. It offers a timely antidote to the existing top–down pattern of DRR.’ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEduardo T. Gonzalez\u003c\/strong\u003e, Professor, Center for Integrative Development Studies, University of the Philippines\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of Figures. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of tables. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eContributors. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ePreface. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of abbreviations. \u003c\/em\u003eIntroduction\u003cb\u003ePart I: Disaster Law: Content and Correlations 1. \u003c\/b\u003eDisaster Law and the post-Hyogo Pedagogical Change in the Framework of Governance \u003cstrong\u003e2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Disaster Laws: Saving lives, reducing risk in the Asia Pacific \u003cstrong\u003e3. \u003c\/strong\u003eDisasters: An ubiquitous legal framework in Ancient BCE Literature \u003cb\u003ePart II: Country Specific Disaster Laws 4. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Landscape of Disaster Management in Pakistan: Gaps in the Legal Framework \u003cstrong\u003e5. \u003c\/strong\u003eDisaster Law and Community Resilience in Bangladesh \u003cstrong\u003e6. \u003c\/strong\u003eInternational Disaster Response Law in China: A Study on Strengthening National Disaster Response Legislation \u003cstrong\u003e7. \u003c\/strong\u003eInterrogating Disaster Law in India \u003cstrong\u003e8. \u003c\/strong\u003eInterrogating the trajectory of disaster laws in India \u003cstrong\u003ePart III: International Legal Framework of Disaster Management 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Overcoming the Patriarchal Insulation of International Legal Framework \u003cstrong\u003e10. \u003c\/strong\u003eInterrogating the Pedagogy of State Responsibility and Individual Rights in Disaster Law \u003cstrong\u003e11. \u003c\/strong\u003eDisaster Law, ICT and Performance through ‘Standard Setting’ in Disaster Law \u003cstrong\u003e12. \u003c\/strong\u003eBuilding National Resilience through International Law \u003cb\u003ePart IV: The Wide Eyed Slippages of Disaster Law 13. \u003c\/b\u003eCorruption in Humanitarian Assistance: Challenges and Opportunities \u003cstrong\u003e14. \u003c\/strong\u003eA Legal Framework to Prevent Trafficking of Women and Young Girls During Disasters in India \u003cstrong\u003e15. \u003c\/strong\u003eDisability, Disaster and the Law: Developing a Mandate for Disability Inclusive Law Making Process for Disaster Risk Reduction \u003cstrong\u003e16. \u003c\/strong\u003eAnthropogenic Disaster Economics and the Non-human Species \u003cstrong\u003e17. \u003c\/strong\u003eGender and Trafficking \u003cstrong\u003e18. \u003c\/strong\u003eTechno-Legal Regime for safety against Natural Hazards \u003cstrong\u003e19. \u003c\/strong\u003ePost-Disaster Medical Services: Can Law Ensure Services?\u003cstrong\u003ePart V: Case Specific Studies 20. \u003c\/strong\u003eInterrogating Right to Compensation in Disaster Laws: A Case Study of Kashmir Floods \u003cstrong\u003e21. \u003c\/strong\u003eUnanswered questions in Disaster Preparedness and the Right to Information \u003cstrong\u003e22. \u003c\/strong\u003eCan Laws Ensure Disaster Risk Reduction? A Study of Mandarmoni Sea Beach in West Bengal \u003cstrong\u003e23. \u003c\/strong\u003eDisaster Risk Reduction and City Governance \u003cb\u003ePart VI: Epilogue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e24.\u003c\/strong\u003e Disaster Laws: The Way Forward\u003ci\u003e. Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd (Sales)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52083936035159,"sku":"9780367277765","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367277765.jpg?v=1762204406","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/disaster-law-emerging-thresholds-9780367277765","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}