Law and the Management of Disasters

Disasters raise serious challenges for contemporary legal orders: they demand significant management, but usually amidst massive disruption to the normal functioning of state authority and society. This book analyses the contribution of law to resilience building by looking at law’s role in the different phases of the disaster regulatory process: risk assessment, risk management, emergency intervention, and recovery; addressing how law can effectively contribute to resilience-oriented distaster management policies, and what legal instruments can support effective resilience-building.