Disaster Law

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<P>This book looks at how legal frameworks can and do reduce risks arising out of disasters. The volume:</P><UL><P><LI>analyses existing disaster laws and the challenges on the ground;</LI><P></P><P><LI>brings together case studies from some of the most vulnerable regions; and</LI><P></P><P><LI>proposes solutions to avert existing and possible future crises. </LI><P></P></UL><P></P><P>The book offers appropriate legal frameworks for disaster management which could not only offer sustainable institutional reforms towards community resilience and preparedness but also reduce risk within the frameworks of justice, equity and accountability. It examines the intricacies of governance within which governments function and discusses how recent trends in infrastructure development and engineering technology could be balanced within the legal principles of ethics, transparency and integrity. The chapters in the volume suggest that legal frameworks ought to resonate with new challenges of resour