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..