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Disaster Law (Hardcover)
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Disaster Law (Hardcover)
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Over the last thirty years, the registered number of global
disasters has more than quadrupled, and as a result all around the
globe disasters and their management are today central to public
and political agendas. Our conception of disasters, in particular
natural disasters, has also changed significantly over the last 250
years. Disasters have changed from being understood as acts of God
and Nature to today being understood through our own inability to
avoid them. Natural disasters are increasingly analysed as social
vulnerability exposed by natural hazards, rather than through
hazards themselves (heavy rain, hurricanes or earthquakes). A
disaster following an earthquake is therefore no longer seen as
caused exclusively by tremors, but by poor building standards,
ineffective response systems, or miscommunications. This book
argues that this change could be seen as a social turn in our
understanding of disasters which affects how we speak of, how we
manage and how we feel before, during and after a disaster and
affects our fundamental notions of duty, responsibility and
justice.The book considers the role of law in disasters and in
particular the regulation of disaster response and the allocation
of responsibility in the aftermath of disasters. It argues that
while traditionally law has approached emergencies, including
natural disasters, from a dichotomy of normalcy and emergency. When
a disaster occurred, a state of emergency was declared. In the
state of emergency norms were replaced by exceptions; democracy by
dictatorship; and rights by necessity. However, as the disaster
becomes socialized the idea of a clear distinction between normalcy
and emergency crumbles. Looking at international and domestic
legislation from a range of jurisdictions the book shows how
natural disasters are increasingly normalized and therefore
increasingly objects of legal regulation and interpretation and the
impact this has had on disaster law.
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