Natural Hazards and Disaster Justice

Anna Lukasiewicz is an Honorary Lecturer at the Fenner School for Environment and Society, in the Australian National University, Australia. With an interdisciplinary background focusing on sustainability, Anna has been developing the Social Justice Framework, an empirically-grounded guide for incorporating justice and fairness into environmental and natural resource management. Claudia Baldwin is Associate Professor, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. With over 25 years of experience in government and consulting, Claudia teaches land-use planning and researches in community resilience; water, coastal, rural, and regional planning; climate change adaptation planning; as well as age and ability-friendly communities.

• Part 1: Introduction.- The emerging imperative of disaster justice.- Implications of climate change for future disasters.- Part 2: Governance.- Public policy and disaster justice.- Burning bush and disaster justice in Victoria, Australia: Can regional planning prevent bushfires becoming disasters?.- Dimensions of risk justice and resilience: mapping urban planning's role between individual versus collective rights.- Climate change adaptation litigation: A pathway to justice, but for whom?.- Looking to courts of law for disaster justice.- How to be fair in prioritising support in the aftermath of disasters: Pakistan’s housing reconstruction challenges following the 2010 flood disaster.- Part 3: Vulnerability.- Equitable access to formal disaster management programs: Experience of residents of urban informal settlements in Bangladesh.- Children’s Experiences of Disaster: A case study from Lombok, Indonesia.- How a failure in social justice is leading to higher risks of bushfire events.- Issues of disaster justice confronting local community leaders in disaster recovery.- Disaster, Place, and Justice: Experiencing the Disruption of Shock Events.- Legal identity documenting in disasters: Perpetuating systems of injustice?.- Justice, resilience and participatory processes.- The theory/practice of Disaster Justice: Learning from Indigenous peoples’ fire management.- Inclusion - moving beyond resilience in the pursuit of transformative and just DRR practices for persons with disabilities.- Future pathways for disaster justice.