Breau, C. Susan; Samuel, L.H. Katja --- "Research Handbook on Disasters and International Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016) [2016] ELECD 1244

Editor(s): Breau, C. Susan; Samuel, L.H. Katja

Title: Research Handbook on Disasters and International Law

Series: Research Handbooks in International Law series

Topics: Disasters; Environmental Governance and Regulation; Environmental Law; Law and Development; Public International Law

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date of Publication: 30 September 2016

Number of pages: c 608

ISBN (hard cover): 9781784717391

EISBN: 9781784717407

Abstract/Description:

International law’s role in governing disasters is undergoing a formative period in its development and reach, in parallel with concerted efforts by the international community to respond more effectively to the increasing number and intensity of disasters across the world. This Research Handbook examines a broad range of legal regimes directly and indirectly relevant to disaster prevention, mitigation and reconstruction across a spectrum of natural and manmade disasters, including armed conflict.

The editors take a broad, encompassing approach to the concept of disaster, concluding that a new corpus of international disaster law may be emerging. Key contributions interweave a number of important themes from an international law perspective across a wide range of discrete topics as diverse as water, food and energy security, dispute settlement, protection of vulnerable groups, cyber terrorism, international criminal law, climate change migration and international economics and trade law. This comprehensive study makes an important contribution to international law scholarship governing disasters, which in the past has largely focused on disaster response and relief law.

The different perspectives incorporated in this Research Handbook are likely to appeal not only to students and academics, but equally to governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental actors drawn across the crisis, conflict and disaster management sectors.