Disaster Law

Amita Singh is Professor and Chairperson at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India.

‘This book is a significant step toward a better understanding of how legal frameworks promote incentives for undertaking risk reduction activities, and how disaster risk reduction (DRR) in turn, help advance legal reform, which includes migrating away from old ways and aligning laws so that they can deliver fresh results. It offers a timely antidote to the existing top–down pattern of DRR.’ Eduardo T. Gonzalez, Professor, Center for Integrative Development Studies, University of the Philippines

• List of Figures. List of tables. Contributors. Preface. List of abbreviations. IntroductionPart 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: An ubiquitous legal framework in Ancient BCE 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 Kashmir Floods 21. Unanswered questions in Disaster Preparedness and the Right to Information 22. Can Laws Ensure Disaster Risk Reduction? A Study of Mandarmoni Sea Beach in West Bengal 23. Disaster Risk Reduction and City Governance Part VI: Epilogue24. Disaster Laws: The Way Forward. Index