The Cambridge Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction and International Law

Katja Samuel is the founding director of Global Security and Disaster Management Limited (GSDM), an innovative consultancy company specialising in the provision of legal and interdisciplinary expertise across the spectrum of security and disaster issues, including their growing inter-connectedness. Currently, she is on organising teams for the European Forum on Disaster Risk Reduction (2018), UN Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (2019), and a co-chair of the American Society of International Law’s Disaster Law Interest Group. An award-winning author and researcher, much of her current research focus is on how to better integrate law, as a dynamic tool of disaster risk mitigation, cross-sectorially, especially with science and technology.

Marie Aronsson-Storrier is a lecturer in Global Law and Disasters, and the Programme Director for the LLM/MSc Global Crisis, Conflict, and Disaster Management, at the University of Reading. She holds a Ph.D. in International Law (University of Melbourne, 2017) and a Master of Laws (University of Gothenburg, 2011). With award-winning publications in disaster prevention and management, and international law-making, Marie’s current research explores conceptual questions around the development of ‘international disaster law’, and how this emerging area of study relates to other areas of international law and governance, such as human rights, environmental law, climate change, and sustainable development.

Kirsten Nakjavani Bookmiller is a Professor of Government and Political Affairs and a faculty associate with the Center for Disaster Research and Education at Millersville University. She has extensively published on International Disaster Law and its implementation, and was a founding co-chair of the American Society of International Law’s Disaster Law Interest Group. Dr Nakjavani Bookmiller currently serves as a Senior Policy Advisor Volunteer to the American Red Cross’ (ARC) International Services Department and is project lead for the North American Humanitarian Response Initiative, convened by the ARC. She is also a founding member of the consulting firm Preparedness Global.