ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on the post-disaster town-recovery planning which links the lessons learned from a disaster to the preparation for disasters in the future, enabling an upwardly spiraling mode of perpetual development of the disaster management cycle. Disaster law is an intersection of public law and the private law spheres. The book explains the Methodological frameworks applied in the field of comparative legal studies may give us hints in an attempt to compare between different "legal systems" that pursue common policy goals. It discusses the fundamental weakness of such a protector-state model is the discretionary nature of the state's responsibility. In contrast to the mainstream of developmental state model, we can observe some unique new trends in disaster law formation emerging in Asian society. The disaster-prone developing countries in Asia are put under the influence of present world's trend of "developmentalization" of disaster management.
