ABSTRACT

Disasters raise serious challenges for contemporary legal orders: they demand significant management, but usually amidst massive disruption to the normal functioning of state authority and society. When dealing with disasters, law has traditionally focused on contingency planning and recovery. More recently, however, ‘resilience’ has emerged as a key concept in effective disaster management policies and strategies, aiming at minimising the impact of events, so that the normal functioning of society and the state can be preserved. This book analyses the contribution of law to resilience building by looking at law’s role in the different phases of the disaster regulatory process: risk assessment, risk management, emergency intervention, and recovery. More specifically, it addresses how law can effectively contribute to resilience-oriented distaster management policies, and what legal instruments can support effective resilience-building.

part I|61 pages

Risk assessment in the light of resilience

chapter 1|19 pages

Multi-risk analysis

A new paradigm for territorial resilience

chapter 2|19 pages

Resilience in retrospect

Interpreting Fukushima’s disappearing consequences

chapter 3|21 pages

Resilience and international (quasi-)judicial bodies in water cases

An uneasy relationship?

part II|54 pages

Risk regulation under resilience

part III|50 pages

Disaster relief and resilience

chapter 7|21 pages

Resilience and responsibility in international law

The achievements of the Sendai framework through the example of climate change

chapter 8|17 pages

Governing from a distance

European Union foreign policy and resilience building

chapter 9|10 pages

Resilience strategy in the United States

Incentivising resilient practices and behaviour

part IV|58 pages

In the aftermath

chapter 10|19 pages

The resilient constitution

Lessons from the financial crisis

chapter 12|21 pages

Resilient compensation mechanisms

The role of government intervention in the insurance of catastrophic risks

chapter |7 pages

Conclusions

One law to bind them all: International law and disaster resilience