Disaster Law: Emerging Thresholds

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Cover Title Copyright Contents List of illustrations Notes on contributors Preface Abbreviations Introduction PART I Disaster law: content and correlations 1 Disaster law and the post-Hyogo pedagogical change in the framework of governance 2 Disaster laws: saving lives, reducing risk in the Asia Pacific 3 Disasters: a ubiquitous legal framework in ancient BC literature PART II Country-specific disaster laws 4 The landscape of disaster management in Pakistan: gaps in the legal framework 5 Disaster law and community resilience in Bangladesh 6 International disaster response law in China: a study on strengthening national disaster response legislation 7 Interrogating disaster law in India 8 Interrogating the trajectory of disaster laws in India PART III International legal framework of disaster management 9 Overcoming the patriarchal insulation of international legal framework 10 Interrogating the pedagogy of state responsibility and individual rights in disaster law 11 Disaster law, ICT and performance through ‘standard setting’ in disaster law 12 Building national resilience through international law PART IV The wide-eyed slippages of disaster law 13 Corruption in humanitarian assistance: challenges and opportunities 14 A legal framework to prevent trafficking of women and young girls during disasters in India 15 Disability, disaster and the law: developing a mandate for disability inclusive law making process for disaster risk reduction 16 Anthropogenic disaster economics and the non-human species 17 Gender and trafficking 18 Techno-legal regime for safety against natural hazards 19 Post-disaster medical services: can law ensure services? PART V Case-specific studies 20 Interrogating right to compensation in disaster laws: a case study of Jammu and Kashmir floods 21 Unanswered questions in disaster preparedness and the Right to Information 22 Can laws ensure disaster risk reduction? A study of Mandarmani Sea Beach in West Bengal 23 Disaster risk reduction and city governance PART VI Epilogue 24 Disaster laws in India: the way forward Index