Disasters raise serious challenges for contemporary legal orders: they demand significant management, but usually amidst massive disruption to the normal functi

Disasters raise serious challenges for contemporary legal orders: they demand significant management, but usually amidst massive disruption to the normal functi

This book looks at how legal frameworks can and do reduce risks arising out of disasters. The volume: analyses existing disaster laws and the challenges on the

Disasters and their management are today central to public and political agendas. Rather than being understood as exclusively acts of God and Nature, natural di

This second edition is a major revision and update of Emergency Response and Emergency Management Law. As the first text to be published on emergency response a