Disaster Law: Emerging Thresholds

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Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Preface
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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