The Cambridge Handbook of Disaster Law and Policy: Risk, Recovery and Redevelopment

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This century's major disasters from Hurricane Katrina and the Fukushima nuclear meltdown to devastating Nepalese earthquakes and the recent crippling volcanic eruptions and tsunamis in Tonga have repeatedly taught that government institutions are ill-prepared for major disaster events, leaving the most vulnerable among us unprotected. These tragedies represent just the beginning of a new era of disaster – an era of floods, heatwaves, droughts, and pandemics fueled by climate change. Laws and government institutions have struggled to adapt to the scope of the challenge; old models of risk no longer apply. This Handbook provides timely guidance, taking stock of the field of disaster law and policy as it has developed since Hurricane Katrina. Experts from a wide range of academic and practical backgrounds address the root causes of disaster vulnerability and offer solutions to build more resilient communities to ensure that no one is left behind.

Part I. Critical Perspectives on the Evolution of Disaster Law and Policy:

1. Catastrophe is not the end but the beginning

Donovan Finn

2. The flood: Political economy and disaster

Mari Matsuda

Part II. Effective Governance as an Imperative for Responsive Disaster Law and Policy:

3. Governance structures for recovery and resilience

Susan L. Cutter

4. Governance strategies for mitigating urban heat island effect

Dawid Sześciło

5. Regulatory institutional challenges to prevent mining dam disasters in Brazil

Patricia Sampaio and Rômulo Sampaio

6. Integrating disaster risk reduction and climate change

Livhuwani David Nemakonde and Dewald van Niekerk

7. Climate resilience in the greater bay area of South China

Maria Francesch-Huidobro

8. An adaptive legal framework for water security concerns in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao greater bay area

Ping Yu Fan and Kwok Pan Chun

Part III. Law's Role in Promoting Hazard Mitigation: Intergovernmental, International, National, and Local Approaches:

9. Local resilience, land use law, and disaster planning

John R. Nolon

10. Financing city resilience

Arthur C. Nelson

11. Disaster, land use, and European Union law

Juli Ponce

12. Covid-19 and cooperation in times of disaster

Matiangai Sirleaf

13. Disaster recovery in rural communities

Ann M. Eisenberg

14. Wildfire federalism

Stephen R. Miller

15. A comparative review of hazard-prone housing acquisition laws, policies, and programs in the United States and Aotearoa New Zealand

Gavin Smith and Wendy Saunders

16. Urban transformation as a resilience strategy

Asli Ceylan Oner and Haluk Özener

17. How green cities prevent disasters?

Wellington Migliari

18. Constructing a resilient energy supply

Shelley Welton

19. Building a resilient power grid

Robert R.M. Verchick

20. Weaponizing private property and the chilling effect of regulatory takings jurisprudence in combating global warming

Danaya C. Wright

Part IV. Private Sector Initiatives to Promote Disaster Resilience and Recovery:

21. Averting disasters through watershed policy advocacy

Chinkie Peliño-Golle and Florence Chio Baula

22. Insuring natural catastrophes in America

Christopher French

23. Corporate compliance and climate change

Susan S. Kuo and Benjamin Means

Part V. Lawyers as Disaster Law and Policy Leaders: Training for Students and Guidance for Practitioners:

24. Creating blueprints for law school responses to natural disasters

Jeffrey R. Baker, Christine E. Cerniglia, Davida Finger, Luz Herrera, and JoNel Newman

25. Law and lawyers in disaster response

Clifford J. Villa

Part VI. Cultural Heritage Protection and Cross-Disciplinary Opportunities for Advancing Disaster Law and Policy:

26. Scheduled monuments and sites at risk of coastal erosion

Pernille Denise Frederiksen and Marianne Lindegaard Rasmussen

27. Heritage-related disaster policy in the United States

Sara C. Bronin

28. Love for heritage in the time of Covid-19

Jack Tsen-Ta Lee

29. Reflections on urban cultural heritage, public health, and public participation

Ryan Rowberry

Part VII. Disasters and Vulnerable Communities:

30. After the storm

Brie Sherwin

31. Social construction of disaster survivors and displaced populations

Alka Sapat, Arjola Belilaq, and Ann-Margaret Esnard

32. From Covid-19 to climate change

Cinnamon P. Carlarne

33. Disasters and disability

Lance Gable

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