Oñati Socio-Legal Series

The Oñati Socio-Legal Series is an international peer-reviewed on-line journal which publishes work within the field of law and society. This is broadly defined to include work which makes a significant contribution to the understanding and analysis of law as a set of social institutions, processes, practices or techniques, using any methodologies and approaches from the social sciences and humanities.

    All papers are double-blind peer-reviewed by two referees.

    Vol 3, No 2 (2013): Disasters and Sociolegal Studies

    Issue edited by Susan Sterett (University of Denver)

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    Disaster and Sociolegal Studies PDF
    Susan Sterett 161-179
    Uncertain Governance and Resilient Subjects in the Risk Society PDF
    Pat O'Malley 180-195
    Land Use Planning and Disaster: A European Perspective From Spain PDF
    Juli Ponce 196-220
    Law, State and the Politics of Catastrophes: a Critical Perspective on Epiphanies of Injustice and the Need for Protection PDF
    Valerio Nitrato Izzo 221-233
    The Comparative Jurisprudence of Wildfire Mitigation: Moral Community, Political Culture, and Policy Learning PDF
    Lloyd Burton 234-253
    Transboundary Impacts of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake Disaster: Focus on Legal Dilemmas in South Florida PDF
    Alka Sapat, Ann-Margaret Esnard 254-276
    Disaster Mythology and Availability Cascades PDF
    Lisa Grow Sun 277-292
    The Role of Law in Engineering 'Natural' Disasters PDF
    Arthur F McEvoy 293-311
    Multi-level Governance in Environmental Risk Management PDF
    Petra Hiller 312-325
    Internal Environmental Displacement: A Growing Challenge to the United States Welfare State PDF
    Michelle A. Meyer 326-345
    Long Term Recovery in Disaster Response and the Role of Non-Profits PDF
    Victor B Flatt, Jeffrey J Stys 346-362
    Disasters, Focusing Events, and Sociolegal Studies PDF
    Thomas A Birkland 363-377

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