Sunday, April 23, 2023

New Volume: Yearbook of International Disaster Law

The latest volume of the Yearbook of International Disaster Law (Vol. 4, 2021) is out. Contents include:
  • Thematic Section: Regionalisation and Localisation of International Disaster Law
    • YIDL Dialogues with Practitioners - Ms Adelina Kamal – Former Executive Director of the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance (AHA Centre) - A Dialogue with Tommaso Natoli and Dug Cubie
    • Christy Shucksmith-Wesley & Nigel D. White, Regionalism and Disaster Law 
    • Stefan Kirchner & Federica Cristani, International Disaster Risk Reduction and Response Law Made in the Arctic 
    • Federico Casolari, The EU Approach towards Disaster Management: A Critical Appraisal in the Light of the Action Put in Place to Face the COVID-19 Pandemic 
    • Susanna Villani, Perspectives of Solidarity within the EU Legal Order in the Time of the Covid-19 Pandemic 
    • Jeanique Andrea De Sousa Serradinho, Stella Njeri Ngugi & Reece Da Costa, Legal Preparedness for International Disaster Assistance in the SADC Region: An Analysis of the Incorporation of International Disaster Response Laws, Rules and Principles (IDRL) in Domestic Disaster Risk Management Legal and Policy Frameworks
    • Priyanka Vaidyanath & Chhaya Bhardwaj, SAARC Regional Disaster Law Need for Progressive Development 
    • W. John Hopkins, Tommaso Natoli & Leanne Avila, ‘As the Island Choirs Gather’: Tracing a Regional Approach to Disaster and Climate Resilience in Pacific Island Countries 
    • Luke Potter, The Relevance of International Disaster Law Frameworks to a Pacific Island State: Insights on Localized DDR Governance from Palau 
    • Riccardo Luporini, Strategic Litigation at the Domestic and International Levels as a Tool to Advance Climate Change Adaptation? Challenges and Prospects 
    • Karen C. Sokol, Forging Global Rule of Law through Climate Litigation against the United States and the Fossil Fuel Industry
  • General Section
    • Bruce Burson, Walter Kälin & Jane McAdam, Statehood, Human Rights and Sea-Level Rise: A Response to the International Law Commission’s Second Issues Paper on Sea-Level Rise in Relation to International Law 
    • Malgosia Fitzmaurice & Agnes Viktoria Rydberg, Using International Law to Address the Effects of Climate Change: A Matter for the International Court of Justice? 
    • José E. Alvarez, The WHO’s Mixed Human Rights Messages 
    • Ginevra Le Moli, One Health and the Prevention of Pathogens’ Spillover 
    • Adam Strobeyko & Gian Luca Burci, Towards Integrated Early Warning Systems: Review of Disaster Risk Reduction and One Health Approaches in Light of Pandemic Treaty Negotiations 
    • Rosemary Lyster, The Glasgow Climate Pact: Is It All Just ‘Blah, Blah, Blah?’ 
    • Annalisa Savaresi, UN Human Rights Bodies and the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Climate Change: All Hands on Deck 
    • Michał Balcerzak, The Racial Dimension of Disasters through the Prism of International Law 
    • Kris Gledhill & Natalie Baird, Ensuring a Disability Perspective in Disaster Law The Contribution of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities