Overview
- Comprehensive and scholarly account of the legal, political and socio-economic implications of Japan’s ’triple disasters’ in 2011
- Multi-disciplinary perspective combining legal and social science perspectives on lessons to be learned from the disaster in Japan and its recovery as well as the Asia-Pacific region more generally
- Insights and proposals for regulatory reform related to disaster prevention and relief
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The book outlines the regulatory environment for disaster prevention and management in broad social, economic and political context. The first half of the book focuses mainly on Japan, especially the ‘3-11’ events: the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Tohoku area on 11 March 2011 and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant radiation leaks. The second half focuses on the USA (the only other Asia-Pacific country to have experienced a serious nuclear emergency), Indonesia, China, New Zealand, Australia and international law. One question explored is whether socio-legal norms play different roles in preventing and managing responses to natural disasters compared to ‘man-made’ disasters. Another is how ‘disaster law’ interacts with society across very diverse societies in the disaster-prone Asia-Pacific region. The book also addresses the increasingly important roles played by international law and regional regimes for cross-border cooperation in disaster prevention and relief, including the functions played by military forces.
Erudite, pragmatic, and charged with detailed, substantive knowledge of an astonishing range of contexts and research fields, this timely collection of important essays on the law and society of disaster management stands as an exemplary international academic response to the disasters of 11 March 2011. (Annelise Riles)
Reviews
Erudite, pragmatic, and charged with detailed, substantive knowledge of an astonishing range of contexts and research fields, this timely collection of important essays on the law and society of disaster management stands as an exemplary international academic response to the disasters of 11 March 2011.Â
Annelise RilesÂ
Jack G. Clarke '52 Professor of Far East Legal StudiesÂ
Director, Clarke Program in East Asian Law and CultureÂ
Professor of AnthropologyÂ
Cornell Law SchoolÂ
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Asia-Pacific Disaster Management
Book Subtitle: Comparative and Socio-legal Perspectives
Editors: Simon Butt, Hitoshi Nasu, Luke Nottage
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39768-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-39767-7Published: 12 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52227-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-39768-4Published: 29 October 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 303
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law, Natural Hazards, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Environmental Economics