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Disaster Law

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Disaster Law

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Disaster Law book

Disaster Law

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Disaster Law book

ByKristian Cedervall Lauta
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 26 August 2014
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315867670
Pages 170
eBook ISBN 9781315867670
Subjects Geography, Law
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Lauta, K.C. (2014). Disaster Law (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315867670

ABSTRACT

Disasters and their management are today central to public and political agendas. Rather than being understood as exclusively acts of God and Nature, natural disasters are increasingly analysed as social vulnerability exposed by natural hazards. A disaster following an earthquake is no longer seen as caused exclusively by tremors, but by poor building standards, ineffective response systems, or miscommunications.

This book argues that the shift in how a disaster is spoken of and managed affects fundamental notions of duty, responsibility and justice. The book considers the role of law in disasters and in particular the regulation of disaster response and the allocation of responsibility in the aftermath of disasters. It argues that traditionally law has approached emergencies, including natural disasters, from a dichotomy of normalcy and emergency. In the state of emergency, norms were replaced by exceptions; democracy by dictatorship; and rights by necessity. However, as the disaster becomes socialized the idea of a clear distinction between normalcy and emergency crumbles. Looking at international and domestic legislation from a range of jurisdictions the book shows how natural disasters are increasingly normalized and increasingly objects of legal regulation and interpretation.

The book will be of great use and interest to scholars and researchers of legal theory, and natural hazards and disasters.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|30 pages

Disasters

chapter 3|34 pages

Exceptions and norms

chapter 4|30 pages

Disaster management

chapter 5|36 pages

Disaster responsibility

chapter 6|14 pages

Disaster law

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