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Asian Law in Disasters: Toward a Human-Centered Recovery book cover

1st Edition

Asian Law in Disasters Toward a Human-Centered Recovery

Edited By Yuka KANEKO, Katsumi MATSUOKA, Toshihisa TOYODA Copyright 2016
348 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

348 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

348 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book is a critical analysis of several of the most disaster-prone regions in Asia. Its unique focus is on the legal issues in the phase of disaster recovery, the most lengthy and difficult stage of disaster response that follows the conclusion of initial emergency stage of humanitarian aid. In the stage of disaster recovery, the law decides the fate of reconstruction for the individual... Read more

Introduction

Part I: Typology of Asian Disaster Law: From the Developmental State Model to Forward

  1. Yuka Kaneko, Lessons from the 2011 East Japan Earthquake: Issues of Participation and Early Recovery

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  2. Li Weihai Natural Disaster Relief in China: Experiences and Shortcomings in the 2008 Wenchuan Great Earthquake and Thereafter

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  3. A Tolga Ozden and Burcak Erkan, The Shift From Healer State to Protector State in a 500-year Period: A Critical Evaluation of Painful Development Struggles in Legal and Administrative Understanding of Disaster Management Strategies in Turkey from 1509 to 2010

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  4. Taqwaddin Husin and Teuku Alvisyahrin The Legal Framework of Community-Based Land Administration in Tsunami-Impacted Areas of Aceh

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  5. Kanongnij Sribuaiam Roles of Laws Relating to Post-2004 Tsunami Management in Thailand

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  6. Ebinezer Florano Joe-Mar S. Perez and Abel Pyneiro Building Back Better: Disaster Rehabilitation and Recovery in the Philippines

    7. Part II: Aid, Compensation, or Insurance?: In Sought for Effective Institutional Basis for Early Recovery

  7. Eichi Yamazaki Legislation to Support to Disaster Victims in Japan

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  8. Tamiyo Kondo Compensation or Assistance ? Law and Policy for Post-disaster Housing Recovery in the U.S and Japan

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  9. Michael White Lessons from the Canterbury Earthquakes: Adequacy of a first loss insurance scheme for natural disasters

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  10. Wakana Takahashi The Divided Fate of Victims after the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident

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  11. Takayuki Ii The Role of the Legal Services after the 2011 East Japan Great Earthquake and Tsunami

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    Part III: Redefining the Recovery: Law for Human-Centered Recovery vs. Build Back Better

  12. Yuichi Honjyo Lessons Learned from a Comparison of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake

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  13. Katsumi Matsuoka "Promptness" in Housing Reconstruction in the Post-2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Recovery

  14. Elizabeth Toomy The Complexities of Land Acquisition and Zoning after the Canterbury New Zealand Earthquake

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  15. Akihiko Hokugo A Comparative Approach to the Post-2001 Gujarat Earthquake Recovery in India

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  16. Yung-Fang Chen Post-Disaster Reconstruction in Taiwan

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  17. Toshihisa Toyoda The Framework of International Cooperation for Disaster Management and Japan’s Contribution

Biography

Yuka KANEKO is Professor of Asian comparative law at Kobe University, Japan.

Katsumi MATSUOKA is Professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Iwate University, Japan.

Toshihisa TOYODA is Professor Emeritus at Kobe University, Japan.

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