Preventing Disasters and Displacement: How Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Can Advance Local Resilience. Issue 1 (2nd January 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cullen, Miriam; Munro, Jane
• Is Part Of: Nordic journal of human rights. Volume 40:Issue 1(2022)
• Page Start: 118
• Page End: 132
• Publication Date: 2022-01-02
• Subjects: economic social and cultural rights -- disaster risk reduction -- human rights -- disaster -- climate change -- displacement -- human mobility -- right to adequate housing -- right to adequate food; Human rights -- Periodicals; Human rights -- Scandinavia -- Periodicals; 323
• DOI: 10.1080/18918131.2022.2061237
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1891-814X

Abstract

Abstract: This article builds on the widespread recognition that disaster is not a 'natural' phenomenon but occurs where exposure to a particular hazard coincides with pre-existing vulnerabilities to it—which might be social, economic or environmental—to increase personal susceptibility to harm. It argues that the impacts of climate change impose an increasingly pressing need to revive the realisation of economic, social and cultural rights as a priority, not only through their express incorporation into disaster risk planning, policies and domestic law, but by rethinking how they are implemented to include and empower the people who need them most.