Vulnerability drives disaster law—defining its successes and illustrating its failures. Although understanding … vulnerability is critical to disaster law and scholarship, the literature lacks both an overarching analysis of the different … aspects of vulnerability and a nuanced examination of the factors that shape disaster outcomes. This paper attempts to fill …

of disaster and war for purposes of justifying exceptions to ordinary constitutional and democratic norms is particularly … might be warranted in cases of thinking enemies in times of war are invoked in disaster scenarios lacking such thinking … disaggregating dissimilar forms of emergencies and removing the rhetoric of war from disaster decisionmaking can the government make …

Asia and the Pacific? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising population exposure, greater …. In a regression analysis within a model of disaster risk determination, the most significant association is between the …