The Cambridge handbook of disaster risk reduction and international law / edited by Katja L.H. Samuel (Director, Global Security and Disaster Management Ltd, UK), Marie Aronsson-Storrier (University of Reading, UK), Kirsten Nakjavani Bookmiller (Millersville University, PA, USA)
Publisher's description: The number, intensity, and impact of diverse forms of 'natural' and 'human-made' disasters are increasing. In response, the international community has shifted its primary focus away from disaster response to prevention and improved preparedness. The...
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Paola Albrito
- Introduction / Katja L.H. Samuel, Marie Aronsson-Storrier, Kirsten Nakjavani Bookmiller
- Seven dimensions of disaster : the Sendai Framework and the social construction of catastrophe / Michael D. Cooper
- Exploring the foundations : the principles of prevention, mitigation, and preparedness in international law / Marie Aronsson-Storrier
- The ILC's articles on the protection of persons in the event of disasters and disaster risk reduction : a legislative history / Arnold N. Pronto
- Disaster risk reduction cooperation for the protection of persons in the event of disasters / Hugo Cahueñas Muñoz
- Recognising limits of international law in disaster risk reduction as problem and solution / Michael Eburn, Andrew Collins, Karen da Costa
- The 'protection of knowing' : the evolving concept of early warning and states' obligations to inform of disaster risk and warn of disaster / Simon Whitbourn
- Speaking with one or multiple voices in multi-hazard early warning systems? : a survey of international and national legal and policy frameworks / Silvia Venier, Francesca Capone
- The development of the 'single official voice principle' in national legal frameworks and at the EU level / Stefano Silingardi
- Access to disaster risk information, early warning and education : implementing the Sendai Framework through human rights law / Marlies Hesselman
- Soft obligations and hard realities : regional disaster risk reduction in Europe and Asia / W. John Hopkins
- Embracing regionalism : lessons from the UN Regional Seas Programme for UNISDR and the Sendai Framework / Dug Cubie
- Disaster risk reduction through risk pooling : the case of hazard risk pooling schemes / Morten Broberg, Erica Hovani
- Disaster risk governance and coherence : the case of incentives for private business to foster disaster resilience and sustainability / Eloísa Dutari, Cássius G. Chai
- Disaster risk reduction and the state : the failure of no-build zones after Typhoon Haiyan / Daniel Fitzpatrick, Caroline Compton
- Risk reduction and response mechanisms in aviation / Wanlu 'Laura' Zhang
- Disaster risk reduction in cruise shipping, capacity building for crew members and the Polar Code / Stefan Kirchner
- Regional legal frameworks for search and rescue : the Arctic experience of regulating early warning systems / Simon Marsden
- Disaster risk reduction, early warning systems, and global health : critiquing the current system-based approach / Katja L.H. Samuel, Rosalind J. Cornforth
- Disaster risk reduction, the International Federation of the Red Cross, and emergency health for women in Nepal 2015 / Christy Shucksmith-Wesley
- Cultural heritage and disaster risk reduction / Giulio Bartolini
- The right to evacuation of nuclear disaster victims and disaster risk reduction in the event of radiation emergencies : the Fukushima nuclear disaster / Emika Tokunaga
- Improving disaster risk mitigation : towards a 'multi-hazard' approach to terrorism / Katja L.H. Samuel, William C. Banks, Daphné Richemond-Barak.