Monthly archive April, 2018

Something old, something new: Disaster risk reduction in international law

1. Introduction Praestat cautela quam medela. Prevention is better than cure. This also holds true in the field of disasters, where for a long time a reactive policy has prevailed, notwithstanding the enormous human and financial costs that it implies. The present contribution intends to provide a general overview of the development, and the actual...

Human Rights Law and disaster risk reduction

1. Introduction Disasters are the result of the troubled relationship between human beings on the one side, and either nature or technology on the other. Sometimes unpredictable and sudden, often slow and lingering, various types of disasters may affect the way in which we go about our daily lives. Human beings have always sought new...

Disaster risk reduction: An International Law perspective

Introduced by Giulio Bartolini and Tommaso Natoli*   Disasters are a commonplace phenomenon. According to data collected in the latest World Disaster Report elaborated by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, in the decade 2006-2016 more than 771.000 deaths could be attributed to disasters, 2 billions of individuals were affected by...