Natural Hazards and Disaster Justice - Challenges for Australia and Its Neighbours

This book explores policy, legal, and practice implications regarding the emerging field of disaster justice, using case studies of floods, bushfires, heatwaves, and earthquakes in Australia and Southern and South-east Asia. It reveals geographic locational and social disadvantage and structural inequities that lead to increased risk and vulnerability to disaster, and which impact ability to recover post-disaster.  Written by multidisciplinary disaster researchers, the book addresses all stages of the disaster management cycle, demonstrating or recommending just approaches to preparation, response and recovery. It notably reveals how procedural, distributional and interactional aspects of justice enhance resilience, and offers a cutting edge analysis of disaster justice for managers, policy makers, researchers in justice, climate change or emergency management.



Anna Lukasiewicz is an Honorary Lecturer at the Fenner School for Environment and Society, in the Australian National University, Australia. With an interdisciplinary background focusing on sustainability, Anna has been developing the Social Justice Framework, an empirically-grounded guide for incorporating justice and fairness into environmental and natural resource management.
 
Claudia Baldwin is Associate Professor, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. With over 25 years of experience in government and consulting, Claudia teaches land-use planning and researches in community resilience; water, coastal, rural, and regional planning; climate change adaptation planning; as well as age and ability-friendly communities.