Natural Hazards and Disaster Justice: Challenges for Australia and Its Neighbours [Paperback]

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 locational and social disadvantage and structural inequities that lead to increased risk and vulnerability to disaster, and which impact ability to recover post-disaster.  Written by multidisciplinary disaster researchers, the book addresses all stages of the disaster management cycle, demonstrating or recommending just approaches to preparation, response and recovery. It notably reveals how procedural, distributional and interactional aspects of justice enhance resilience, and offers a cutting edge analysis of disaster justice for managers, policy makers, researchers in justice, climate change or emergency management.

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: Pakistans 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.- Childrens Experiences of Disaster: A case study from Lombok, Indonesia.- How a failure in social justice is leading to higherlóV