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Law and Catastrophe

Engelsk Hardback

Law and Catastrophe

Engelsk Hardback
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The study of catastrophe is a growth industry. Today, cosmologists scan the heavens for asteroids of the kind that smashed into earth some ninety million years ago, leading to the swift extinction of the dinosaurs. Climatologists create elaborate models of the chaotic weather and vast flooding that will result from the continued buildup of greenhouse gases in the planet''s atmosphere. Terrorist experts and homeland security consultants struggle to prepare for a wide range of possible biological, chemical, and radiological attacks: aerated small pox virus spread by a crop duster, botulism dumped into an urban reservoir, a dirty bomb detonated in a city center.

Yet, strangely, law''s role in the definition, identification, prevention, and amelioration of catastrophe has been largely neglected. The relationship between law and other limiting conditions—such as states of emergency—has been the subject of rich and growing literature. By contrast, little has been written about law and catastrophe. In devoting a volume to the subject, the essays'' authors sketch the contours of a relatively fresh, yet crucial, terrain of inquiry. Law and Catastrophe begins the work of developing a jurisprudence of catastrophe.

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The study of catastrophe is a growth industry. Today, cosmologists scan the heavens for asteroids of the kind that smashed into earth some ninety million years ago, leading to the swift extinction of the dinosaurs. Climatologists create elaborate models of the chaotic weather and vast flooding that will result from the continued buildup of greenhouse gases in the planet''s atmosphere. Terrorist experts and homeland security consultants struggle to prepare for a wide range of possible biological, chemical, and radiological attacks: aerated small pox virus spread by a crop duster, botulism dumped into an urban reservoir, a dirty bomb detonated in a city center.

Yet, strangely, law''s role in the definition, identification, prevention, and amelioration of catastrophe has been largely neglected. The relationship between law and other limiting conditions—such as states of emergency—has been the subject of rich and growing literature. By contrast, little has been written about law and catastrophe. In devoting a volume to the subject, the essays'' authors sketch the contours of a relatively fresh, yet crucial, terrain of inquiry. Law and Catastrophe begins the work of developing a jurisprudence of catastrophe.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 184
ISBN-13: 9780804756839
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 080475683X
Kategori: Jura, generelt
Udg. Dato: 18 jun 2007
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 159mm
Højde: 235mm
Forlag: Stanford University Press
Oplagsdato: 18 jun 2007
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Kategori Jura, generelt

ISBN-13 9780804756839

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 184

Udgave

Længde 21mm

Bredde 159mm

Højde 235mm

Udg. Dato 18 jun 2007

Oplagsdato 18 jun 2007

Forlag Stanford University Press