The role of international environmental law in disaster risk reduction / edited by Jacqueline Peel and David Fisher.
| Other author | Peel, Jacqueline, 1974- |
| Other author | Fisher, David (writer on disaster law) |
| Other author | Stanford University. Environmental & Natural Resources Law & Policy Program. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, 2016. |
| Description | xxi, 480 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | International environmental law ; volume 12 |
| Contents | International law at the intersection of environmental protection and disaster risk reduction / Jacqueline Peel and David Fisher -- Climate change and the narrative of disaster / Lisa Grow Sun -- Disaster law in the anthropocene / Daniel Farber -- A capabilities approach to defining climate disasters / Rosemary Lyster -- Resilient incoherence-seeking common language for climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and sustainable development / Anne Siders -- Disastrous adaptation / Cinnamon P. Carlarne -- Disaster risk assessment : an appraisal of European Union environmental law / Denis Edwards -- The potential role of international environmental and water law to prevent and mitigate water-related disasters / A. Dan Tarlock -- Water treaty regimes as a vehicle for cooperation to reduce water-related disaster risk : the case of Southern Africa and the Zambesi Basin / Mary Picard -- Valuing foreign disasters in international environmental law / Arden Rowell and Lesley Wexler -- Liability and compensation as instruments of disaster risk mitigation? / Michael G. Faure -- The UN SDGs and environmental law : cooperative remedies for natural disaster risks / Nicholas A. Robinson -- International frameworks governing environmental emergency preparedness and response : an assessment of approaches / Carl Bruch, Rene Nijenhuis & Shanna N. McClain -- Preventing and responding to Arctic offshore drilling disasters : the role of hybrid cooperation / Hari M. Osofsky, Jessica Shadian, and Sara L. Fechtelkotter -- Overlapping international disaster law approaches with international environmental law regimes to address latent ecological disaster / Anastasia Telesetsky -- Afterword : environmental disasters and human rights / John H. Knox. |
| General note | "The genesis for this book was a workshop on "How Can International Environmental Law Reduce Disaster Risk?" held at Stanford Law School on May 21-22, 2015 ... sponsored by the Stanford Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy Program ..." -- ECIP Acknowledgments. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016006900 |
| ISBN | 9789004318809 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |