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Full-Text Articles in Disaster Law
Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Benefit To Climate-Displaced And Host Communities, Gül Aktürk, Martha B. Lerski
Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Benefit To Climate-Displaced And Host Communities, Gül Aktürk, Martha B. Lerski
Publications and Research
Climate change is borderless, and its impacts are not shared equally by all communities. It causes an imbalance between people by creating a more desirable living environment for some societies while erasing settlements and shelters of some others. Due to floods, sea level rise, destructive storms, drought, and slow-onset factors such as salinization of water and soil, people lose their lands, homes, and natural resources. Catastrophic events force people to move voluntarily or involuntarily. The relocation of communities is a debatable climate adaptation measure which requires utmost care with human rights, ethics, and psychological well-being of individuals upon the issues …
Compensating The Victims Of Japan’S 3-11 Fukushima Disaster, Eric A. Feldman
Compensating The Victims Of Japan’S 3-11 Fukushima Disaster, Eric A. Feldman
All Faculty Scholarship
Japan’s March 2011 triple disaster—first a large earthquake, followed by a massive tsunami and a nuclear meltdown—caused a devastating loss of life, damaged and destroyed property, and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless, hurt, and in need. This article looks at the effort to address the financial needs of the victims of the 3/11 disaster by examining the role of public and private actors in providing compensation, describing the types of groups and individuals for whom compensation is available, and analyzing the range of institutions through which compensation has been allocated. The story is in some ways cause for …
0357: Depositions Of Survivors Of Buffalo Creek Flood, Teresa Lynn Justice Et Al., Marshall University Special Collections
0357: Depositions Of Survivors Of Buffalo Creek Flood, Teresa Lynn Justice Et Al., Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
The collection consists of the depositions of the survivors of the Buffalo Creek Flood in 1972, plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the Pittston Coal Company, filed in the U. S. District Court, Southern W. Va., Huntington, W. Va. Includes depositions of children who survived the Buffalo Creek flood of 1972 as well as grade reports of selected children and depositions of scholars Robert J. Lifton and Kai Erikson concerning survivor guilt.
0346: Depositions Of Survivors Of Buffalo Creek Flood, Dennis Prince Et Al., Marshall University Special Collections
0346: Depositions Of Survivors Of Buffalo Creek Flood, Dennis Prince Et Al., Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
The collection consists of the depositions of the 552 survivors of the Buffalo Creek Flood in 1972, plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the Pittston Coal Company, filed in the U. S. District Court, Southern West Virginia, Huntington, West Virginia.