Children, Law, and Disasters
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Publisher: American Bar Association
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781604422498
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Publisher: American Bar Association
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781604422498
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jane A. Bullock
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2010-12-03
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1439837678
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Each year, disasters such as house fires, car accidents, tsunamis, earthquakes, and hurricanes impact hundreds of thousands of children. Child victims can suffer disproportionately and the physical and psychological damage sustained can far outweigh the same effects in adults, often requiring years of therapy. Sadly, emergency planners to date have
Author: Mort, Maggie
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2020-11-30
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1447354435
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Disasters are an increasingly common and complex combination of environmental, social and cultural factors. Yet existing response frameworks and emergency plans tend to homogenise affected populations as ‘victims’, overlooking the distinctive experience, capacities and skills of children and young people. Drawing on participatory research with more than 550 children internationally, this book argues for a radical transformation in children’s roles and voices in disasters. It shows practitioners, policy-makers and researchers how more child-centred disaster management, that recognises children’s capacity to enhance disaster resilience, actually benefits at-risk communities as a whole.
Author: Susan Carolyn Breau
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781784717391
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Introduction / Susan C. Breau and Katja L.H. Samuel -- Global capitalism and the crisis of the public interest - sleepwalking into diaster / Christopher Newdick -- Closing 'the yawning gap'? International disaster response law at fifteen / Kiresten Nakjavani Bookmiller -- Responses by states / Susan C. Breau -- Human rights and natural disasters / Kristian Cedervall Lauta -- Adverse human agency and disasters : a role for international criminal law? / Evelyne Schmid -- The international humanitarian law framework for humanitarian relief during armed conflicts and complex emergencies / Tilman Rodenhäuser and Gilles Giacca -- Disasters, international environmetal law and the Antropocene / Tim Stephens -- Sustainable development and disasters / Tahmina Karimova -- Disasters and international trade and investment law - the state's regulatory autonomy between risk protection and exception justification / Leïla Choukroune -- Responses by private corporations / Stefano Silingardi -- An evolving role for law and policy in addressing food security before, during and after a disaster / Anastasia Telesetsky -- Security implications of conflicts, crises and disasters in the international energy industry : legal and policy considerations / Tade Oyewunmi -- Water security / Ha Le Phan and Inga T. Winkler -- Tackling water contamination : development, human rights and disaster risk reduction / Marie Aronsson-Storrier and Haythem Salama -- The International law of wildfires / Michael Eburn -- Displacement in the context of disasters and adverse effects of climate change / Walter Kälin and Hannah Entwisle Chapuisat -- The protection of vulnerable groups / Mary Crock -- Disasters causd in cyberspace / James A. Green -- National contingency planning / Simon Whitbourn -- A duty of solidarity? The International law commission's draft articles and the right to offer assistance in disasters / Therese O'Donnell and Craig Allan -- Building resilience in post-conflict disaster contexts : children and transitional justice / Alison Bisset -- Dispute settlement in the aftermath of disasters / Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne
Author: Susan C. Breau
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2016-09-30
Total Pages: 597
ISBN-13: 1784717401
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →International law’s role in governing disasters is undergoing a formative period in its development and reach, in parallel with concerted efforts by the international community to respond more effectively to the increasing number and intensity of disasters across the world. This Research Handbook examines a broad range of legal regimes directly and indirectly relevant to disaster prevention, mitigation and reconstruction across a spectrum of natural and manmade disasters, including armed conflict.
Author: Professor United States Congress
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781983455247
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Children and disasters a progress report on addressing needs: hearing before the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, De[c]ember 10, 2009.
Author: Eric S. Walker
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781614706977
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Children represent nearly 25 percent of our population. Consider that on any given weekday, 6.7 million children are in schools and child care, a time when children are most vulnerable because they are away from their families. Yet, only a handful of States require basic school evacuation and family reunification plans. The Strategic National Stockpile, intended to provide the public with medicine and medical supplies in the event of a public health emergency, is woefully under-stocked with medical countermeasures for children. This book examines existing capabilities that can and should be built upon to integrate children into preparedness, planning, response, and recovery. Meeting the needs of children in disaster planning and management is a national responsibility lacking not only sufficient funding, but also a pervasive concern, a sustained will to act, and a unifying force.
Author: Jonathan Todres
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In recent years, major natural disasters -- ranging from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami to the 2010 Haiti earthquake -- have challenged the global community to ensure the survival and well-being of millions of individuals under the most difficult circumstances. Each of these natural disasters has created crisis spots with huge numbers of displaced individuals, including many children. The international community has struggled to deliver the resources needed to ensure a prompt and full recovery. In these settings, the challenges confronting children are particularly acute. Yet frequently children are marginalized and underserved by disaster response and reconstruction efforts. This symposium article examines the special circumstances facing children in post-disaster settings and the legal protections in place to ensure their rights and well-being. It seeks to draw attention to the lack of accounting for children's rights and suggest a framework for overcoming this failure -- children's rights mainstreaming The article begins by examining prevailing conceptions of children in post-disaster settings. It then reviews the existing legal framework to protect children following a natural disaster. This examination of current law unveils significant gaps in protections for children when they most need assistance: humanitarian law does not apply in the absence of armed conflict; human rights law has important limitations; and international disaster relief law is in a nascent stage. In the final section, this article proposes the mainstreaming of children's rights in post-disaster relief and reconstruction efforts in order to better ensure the rights and well-being of children and the longterm development of their communities.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kristine Torjesen MD MS
Publisher: Health Frontiers
Published: 2013-12-02
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780615932576
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Everyone who works in a disaster setting, whether they have a child health background or not, recognizes the importance of water, food, shelter and sanitation. Everyone should know how to provide for these and the other needs of children in a developmentally appropriate and nurturing manner. We hope this manual will provide some basic and useful information on how to help the children in disasters.