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Law and the Management of Disasters: The Challenge of Resilence

Law and the Management of Disasters: The Challenge of Resilence

Author: Alexia Herwig; Marta Simoncini
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138193529
Published In: December 2016
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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.

Introduction

Part I. Assessing risks for building resilience

Chapter 1. Multi-Risk Analysis: A New Paradigm for Territorial Resilience, Sara Bouchon and Carmelo Di Mauro

Chapter 2. The economic sustainability of resilience. The (possible) case of the inundation of the Netherlands by the sea, Jacques Pelkmans

Chapter 3. Resilience-building and International (Quasi)-Judicial Bodies: An Uneasy Relationship? Monika Ambrus

Part II. Regulating disaster risks for building resilience

Chapter 4. Planning resilience building. The case of the UK 2013 sector resilience plans, Alessandro Lazari

Chapter 5. Disaster risk regulation in the European Union. The path to resilience, Marta Simoncini

Chapter 6. Dilemmas in risk regulation. Experience from the offshore oil and gas industry, Preben Lindøe

Part III. Disaster relief in the context of resilience building

Chapter 7. Resilience policy and practice in the United States, David Trissel

Chapter 8. Resilience and responsibility: The normative justification of involving private actors in the disaster mitigation effort, Alexia Herwig

Chapter 9. Governing from a Distance: European Union Foreign Policy and Resilience Building, Jonathan Joseph

Part IV. In the aftermath: Recovery to be resilient

Chapter 10. The role of government intervention in constructing resilient compensation mechanisms for victims of disasters, Michael Faure

Chapter 11. Tort Law as an instrument for prevention and remediation of catastrophic harm, Monika Hinteregger

Chapter 12. The financial crisis and constitutional resilience, Xenophon I. Contiades

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