International law and the creation of disaster risk

Liam Bagshaw

Chapter 8 in Research Handbook on Disasters and International Law, 2024, pp 137-157 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Building on insights from disaster theory, this chapter identifies key pathologies in international law and their part in the creation of disaster risk. It begins by analysing the role of international law in facilitating European colonialism and the ideologies and distributions of power and wealth established by this period, the post-colonial heritages that stem from it, and their impact on the historic construction of disaster risk. The progression of international law will then be traced into the modern day to identify the continuation of many of these pathologies and the continued creation of disaster risk. It will be argued that international law is unable to achieve its disaster risk reduction goals while its own culpability in the creation of risk goes unaddressed.

Keywords: Development Studies; Environment; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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