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International law at the intersection of environmental protection and disaster risk reduction / Jacqueline Peel and David Fisher -- Climate change and the narrative of disaster / Lisa Grow Sun -- Disaster law in the anthropocene / Daniel Farber -- A capabilities approach to defining climate disasters / Rosemary Lyster -- Resilient incoherence-seeking common language for climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and sustainable development / Anne Siders -- Disastrous adaptation / Cinnamon P. Carlarne -- Disaster risk assessment : an appraisal of European Union environmental law / Denis Edwards -- The potential role of international environmental and water law to prevent and mitigate water-related disasters / A. Dan Tarlock -- Water treaty regimes as a vehicle for cooperation to reduce water-related disaster risk : the case of Southern Africa and the Zambesi Basin / Mary Picard -- Valuing foreign disasters in international environmental law / Arden Rowell and Lesley Wexler -- Liability and compensation as instruments of disaster risk mitigation? / Michael G. Faure -- The UN SDGs and environmental law : cooperative remedies for natural disaster risks / Nicholas A. Robinson -- International frameworks governing environmental emergency preparedness and response : an assessment of approaches / Carl Bruch, Rene Nijenhuis & Shanna N. McClain -- Preventing and responding to Arctic offshore drilling disasters : the role of hybrid cooperation / Hari M. Osofsky, Jessica Shadian, and Sara L. Fechtelkotter -- Overlapping international disaster law approaches with international environmental law regimes to address latent ecological disaster / Anastasia Telesetsky -- Afterword : environmental disasters and human rights / John H. Knox.

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