Natural Hazards and Disaster Justice Challenges for Australia and It
This book explores policy, legal, and practice implications regarding the emerging field of disaster justice, using case studies of floods, bushfires, heatwaves, and earthquakes in Australia and Southern and South-east Asia. It reveals geographic location
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Natural Hazards and Disaster Justice “Natural Hazards and Disaster Justice is a timely and notable contribution to an immensely significant and generally neglected area of research. The neglect is surprising given that Injustice features so prominently in disaster preparedness, prevention, response and recovery, with huge social, economic and political consequences. This important book not only usefully describes many of the theoretical underpinnings of these consequences, but also incorporates studies from within Australia and the Indo-Pacific region to illustrate how they play out in practice. Its cogent conclusions are particularly relevant in the era of climate change, which is greatly increasing the frequency and severity of hazards and, as a consequence, amplifying disaster injustice.” —Robert Glasser, Visiting Fellow, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, and former United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General for Disaster Risk Reduction “I congratulate the editors and contributing authors for a comprehensive, insightful, diverse and provocative book. In an age of unprecedented opportunity to shape our future whilst at the same time creating unprecedented risks that threaten to destroy our existence, disaster justice must play a key role in striking the balance for a safer, prosperous, equitable and sustainable world. This book represents some of the most dynamic thinking in the relationship between disaster justice and resilience, risk reduction and climate. It provides great appeal for all public and private policy makers, strategists and tacticians to escalate disaster justice as a central ethical consideration. It is a must read for everyone.” —Mark Crossweller, Former Director General, Emergency Management Australia, and Head of the National Resilience Taskforce
Anna Lukasiewicz • Claudia Baldwin Editors
Natural Hazards and Disaster Justice Challenges for Australia and Its Neighbours
Editors Anna Lukasiewicz Fenner School of Environment and Society and Institute for Integrated Research on Disaster Risk Science Australian National University Canberra, ACT, Australia
Claudia Baldwin Urban Design and Town Planning and Sustainability Research Centre University of the Sunshine Coast Maroochydore, QLD, Australia
ISBN 978-981-15-0465-5 ISBN 978-981-15-0466-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0466-2 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks
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