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Cambridge Handbook of Disaster Law and Policy (Susan S. Kuo, John Travis Marshall & Ryan Rowberry eds., 2022).
The coronavirus pandemic has made it apparent that nation states have different capacities to detect, effectively respond to, and manage highly infectious diseases. Concomitantly, the resources necessary to support robust health systems are distributed inequitably, which inevitably places greater stress on societies with the most vulnerable health infrastructure. This chapter finds that international disaster law is a helpful framework for responding to complex international emergencies which span different legal regimes.
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