This Open Access Book is the first to examine disasters from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Justification of actions in the face of disasters requires recourse both to conceptual analysis
and ethical traditions. Part 1 of the book contains chapters on how disasters are
conceptualized in different academic disciplines relevant to disasters. Part 2 has chapters on
how ethical issues that arise in relation to disasters can be addressed from a number of
fundamental normative approaches in moral and political philosophy. This book sets the stage
for more focused normative debates given that no one book can be completely comprehensive.
Providing analysis of core concepts and with real-world relevance this book should be of
interest to disaster scholars and researchers those working in ethics and political philosophy
as well as policy makers humanitarian actors and intergovernmental organizations..
