ABSTRACT
Disaster risks encompass a high level of uncertainty and elevated consequences in terms of casualties and losses. Vulnerability to disasters and their (un)predictability make disaster risk regulation a real challenge for today’s society. This chapter identifies the principles of EU law that flexibly adjust EU disaster risk regulation to the resilience paradigm and may help to reduce vulnerability. It presents the paradigm of resilience and frames the challenges for EU disaster risk regulation. The chapter illustrates the key principles of EU law in disaster risk governance. It discusses how the principles of EU law might support disaster risk regulation when enhancing resilience. In the EU the increasing vulnerability to natural as well as man-made disaster risks is linked both to the complexity of the risks at stake and to the cross-border effects that the occurrence of such risks can generate.
