Disaster law: emerging thresholds

"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; andproposes 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."--Provided by publisher.

Introduction / Amita Singh -- Disaster law and the post-Hyogo pedagogical change in the framework of governance / Amita Singh -- Disaster laws: saving lives, reducing risk in the Asia Pacific / Gabrielle Emery and Padmini Nayagam -- Disasters : an ubiquitous legal framework in ancient BC literature / Renu K. Sharma -- The landscape of disaster management in Pakistan : gaps in the legal framework / Md Akmal Wasim -- Disaster law and community resilience in Bangladesh / Md Akbaruddin Ahmad -- International disaster response law in China : a study on strengthening national disaster response legislation / Yan Cui and Shibo Jiang -- Interrogating disaster law in India / Binod Kumar -- Interrogating the trajectory of disaster laws in India / Ramratan Dhumal -- Overcoming the patriarchal insulation of international legal framework / Shiranee Tilakawardane -- Interrogating the pedagogy of state responsibility and individual rights in disaster law / Stellina Jolly -- Disaster law, ICT and performance through 'standard setting' in disaster law / Sanghamitra Nath -- Building national resilience through international law / Venkatachalam Anbumozhi -- Corruption in humanitarian assistance : cha…