170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
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Disasters and their management are today central to public and political agendas. Rather than being understood as exclusively acts of God and Nature, natural disasters are increasingly analysed as social vulnerability exposed by natural hazards. A disaster following an earthquake is no longer seen as caused exclusively by tremors, but by poor building standards, ineffective response systems, or... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Disasters 3. Exceptions and Norms 4. Disaster Response 5. Disaster Responsibility 6. Disaster Law
Biography
Kristian Cedervall Lauta is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the Deputy Principal Investigator on the University of Copenhagen’s 2016 programme for excellence interdisciplinary research project ‘Changing Disasters’; and a founding member of the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research - COPE.
