Disaster Law: Emerging Thresholds (Hardback)

This book looks at how legal frameworks can and do reduce risks arising out of disasters. The volume:

• analyses existing disaster laws and the challenges on the ground;
• brings together case studies from some of the most vulnerable regions; and
• proposes solutions to avert existing and possible future crises.

The book offers appropriate legal frameworks for disaster management which could not only offer sustainable institutional reforms towards community resilience and preparedness but also reduce risk within the frameworks of justice, equity and accountability. It examines the intricacies of governance within which governments function and discusses how recent trends in infrastructure development and engineering technology could be balanced within the legal principles of ethics, transparency and integrity. The chapters in the volume suggest that legal frameworks ought to resonate with new challenges of resource management and climate change. Further, these frameworks could help secure citizens? trust, institutional accountability and effective implementation through an unceasing partnership which keeps the community better prepared and more resilient.

This volume will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of disaster management, law, public policy, environment and development studies as well as policymakers and those in administrative, governmental, judicial and development sectors.

Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Contributors
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction - Amita Singh
Part I: Disaster Law: Content and Correlations
1. Disaster Law and the Post-Hyogo Pedagogical Change in the Framework of Governance - Amita Singh
2. Disaster Laws: Saving Lives, Reducing Risk in the Asia Pacific - Gabrielle Emery and Padmini Nayagam
3. Disasters: An Ubiquitous Legal Framework in Ancient BCE Literature - Renu K. Sharma
Part II: Country-Specific Disaster Laws
4. The Landscape of Disaster Management in Pakistan: Gaps in the Legal Framework - Md Akmal Wasim
5. Disaster Law and Community Resilience in Bangladesh - Md Akbaruddin Ahmad
6. International Disaster Response Law in China: A Study on Strengthening National Disaster Response Legislation - Yan Cui and Shibo Jiang
7. Interrogating Disaster Law in India - Binod Kumar
8. Interrogating the Trajectory of Disaster Laws in India - Ramratan Dhumal
Part III: International Legal Framework of Disaster Management
9. Overcoming the Patriarchal Insulation of International Legal Framework - Shiranee Tilakawardane
10. Interrogating the Pedagogy of State Responsibility and Individual Rights in Disaster Law - Stellina Jolly
11. Disaster Law, ICT, and Performance through ‘Standard Setting’ in Disaster Law - Sanghamitra Nath
12. Building National Resilience through International Law - Venkatachalam Anbumozhi
Part IV: The Wide-Eyed Slippages of Disaster Law
13. Corruption in Humanitarian Assistance: Challenges and Opportunities - Sumaiya Khair
14. A Legal Framework to Prevent Trafficking of Women and Young Girls During Disasters in India - Manjula Batra
15. Disability, Disaster, and the Law: Developing a Mandate for Disability-Inclusive Law Making Process for Disaster Risk Reduction - Deepa Sonpal
16. Anthropogenic Disaster Economics and the Non-Human Species - Subhalakshmi Sircar
17. Gender and Trafficking - Mondira Dutta and Manika Kamthan
18. Techno-Legal Regime for Safety Against Natural Hazards - Ved Mittal
19. Post-Disaster Medical Services: Can Law Ensure Services? - Sunita Reddy and Shishir Yadav
Part V: Case Specific Studies
20. Interrogating Right to Compensation in Disaster Laws: A Case Study of Kashmir Floods - Himanshu Shekhar Mishra
21. Unanswered Questions in Disaster Preparedness and the Right to Information - Abha Yadav
22. Can Laws Ensure Disaster Risk Reduction? A Study of Mandarmoni Sea Beach in West Bengal - Rabindranath Bhattacharyya
23. Disaster Risk Reduction and City Governance - P. K. Chaubey
Part VI: Epilogue
24. Disaster Laws: The Way Forward - Nivedita P. Haran
Index