Home | Databases | WorldLII | Search | Feedback Edited Legal Collections Data

Faure, Michael; Wibisana, Andri --- "Introduction" [2013] ELECD 969; in Faure, Michael; Wibisana, Andri (eds), "Regulating Disasters, Climate Change and Environmental Harm" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) 1

Book Title: Regulating Disasters, Climate Change and Environmental Harm

Editor(s): Faure, Michael; Wibisana, Andri

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781002483

Section Title: Introduction

Author(s): Faure, Michael; Wibisana, Andri

Number of pages: 12

Abstract/Description:

Disasters, climate change and environmental problems are an important source of worry, not only in the developed world of the North but also in developing countries in the South. Countries in the South have to an important extent already been victims of a variety of (technological and natural) disasters, like earthquakes and flooding. Also the tsunami of 2004 which originated north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra largely hit the developing world in South East Asia. Climate change science more over predicts that it will more particularly be the developing world in the South that may be a victim of climate change. The vulnerability to climate change and to the potentially devastating results (increasing number and scale of disasters like hurricanes and flooding) will be particularly large in developing countries. Moreover, many developing countries are also increasingly feeling the results of industrial development for its natural environment. Like in the North in many developing countries economic development had initially a high price as far as pollution is concerned. In many developing countries the turning point, where more economic development will lead to a reduction of environmental pollution1 has not been reached yet.