Thursday, August 14, 2025

New Volume: Yearbook of International Disaster Law

The latest volume of the Yearbook of International Disaster Law (Vol. 6, 2023) is out. Contents include:
  • Thematic Section: ‘Technology and Disasters’
    • YIDL Dialogues with Practitioners #3: Dr. Animesh Kumar, Head of the Bonn, Germany Office of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), A Dialogue with Anastasia Telesetsky & Tommaso Natoli
    • Andrea Gioia, Nuclear Liability Revisited
    • Enikő Krajnyák, A Human Rights Approach to New Technologies for Climate Protection in Light of Intergenerational Equity
    • Simon Whitbourn, Regulating the Decarbonisation of Shipping: Providing Legal Protection against the Risks Presented by Alternative Fuels
    • Alessio Azzariti, Pandemic Risk in the Context of Biosafety, Biosecurity and International Law: Applying the No-Harm Principle to Laboratories
    • Gabriele Redigonda, Space Technology and International Disaster Law: Enabling Effective and Agile Cooperation Based on State-of-the-Art Satellite Solutions
    • Sima Moradinasab & S. Hadi Mahmoudi, Exploring the Institutional Development of Trans-governmental Space Networks in Disaster Management
    • Rachele Cera, Space for Heritage: What (Legal) Framework for the Use of Space Remote Sensing for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Disasters?
    • Temitope Lawal, Francina Cantatore & Melanie Jackson, The Role of Low Earth Orbit Satellites in Facilitating Internet Connectivity in the Asia-Pacific Region during Disaster Times
    • Badar Shah, Zaynab Naji & Nathan Clark, Legal Implications of Data Harvesting from Social Media for Disaster Risk Management
  • General Section
    • Jane McAdam, Walter Kälin & Bruce Burson, Statehood and the Protection of Persons in the Context of Sea-Level Rise: the International Law Association’s Contribution
    • Thomas Mulder, ‘In the Spirit of Solidarity’: an Analysis of Solidarity as a Principle of International Disaster Response Law
    • Ibnu Sitompul & W. John Hopkins, The Limits of Regional Disaster Law: Transboundary Haze Pollution and the ASEAN Way