Natural Hazards and Disaster Justice: Challenges for Australia and Its Neighbours

Book Overview

Part 1: Introduction.- The emerging imperative of disaster justice.- Implications of climate change for future disasters.- Part 2: Governance.- Public policy and disaster justice.- Burning bush and disaster justice in Victoria, Australia: Can regional planning prevent bushfires becoming disasters?.- Dimensions of risk justice and resilience: mapping urban planning's role between individual versus collective rights.- Climate change adaptation litigation: A pathway to justice, but for whom?.- Looking to courts of law for disaster justice.- How to be fair in prioritising support in the aftermath of disasters: Pakistan's housing reconstruction challenges following the 2010 flood disaster.- Part 3: Vulnerability.- Equitable access to formal disaster management programs: Experience of residents of urban informal settlements in Bangladesh.- Children's Experiences of Disaster: A case study from Lombok, Indonesia.- How a failure in social justice is leading to higher risks of bushfire events.- Issues of disaster justice confronting local community leaders in disaster recovery.- Disaster, Place, and Justice: Experiencing the Disruption of Shock Events.- Legal identity documenting in disasters: Perpetuating systems of injustice?.- Justice, resilience and participatory processes.- The theory/practice of Disaster Justice: Learning from Indigenous peoples' fire management.- Inclusion - moving beyond resilience in the pursuit of transformative and just DRR practices for persons with disabilities.- Future pathways for disaster justice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811504687
• ISBN13: 9789811504686
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"