Susan Kuo is a Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law and an affiliated researcher with the Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute. Her research focuses on disaster law and social justice and has been published in law reviews including the Iowa Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, and U.C. Davis Law Review. Before entering academia, she was a Special Assistant United States Attorney with the United States Attorney's Office in Atlanta, Georgia and completed two federal judicial clerkships. John Travis Marshall teaches environmental, land use, and property Law. He is co-author of Market Demand-Based Planning and Permitting (2017) and co-editor of How Cities Will Save the World (2016). He entered law practice with Holland & Knight LLP's Tampa office, where he became a partner specializing in land use and zoning matters as well as real estate litigation. In 2007, he joined the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (NORA) as a project manager and counsel, helping implement post-Hurricane Katrina urban revitalization efforts for Orleans Parish. Ryan Max Rowberry teaches Anglo-American legal history, natural resources law, and property law. He is co-author of Historic Preservation Law in a Nutshell (2018) and Land Use Planning and Development Law (2018). As a Fulbright scholar to Denmark in 2018, he studied legal frameworks for protecting coastal cultural heritage. He has also assisted 13 Caribbean nations with reforming their cultural heritage laws. He practiced environmental and natural resources law with Hogan Lovells in Washington, DC and served as a U.S. Supreme Court Fellow in 2011.

• Part I. Critical Perspectives on the Evolution of Disaster Law and Policy: 1. Catastrophe is not the end but the beginning Donovan Finn; 2. The flood: Political economy and disaster Mari Matsuda; Part II. Effective Governance as an Imperative for Responsive Disaster Law and Policy: 3. Governance structures for recovery and resilience Susan L. Cutter; 4. Governance strategies for mitigating urban heat island effect Dawid Sześciło; 5. Regulatory institutional challenges to prevent mining dam disasters in Brazil Patricia Sampaio and Rômulo Sampaio; 6. Integrating disaster risk reduction and climate change Livhuwani David Nemakonde and Dewald van Niekerk; 7. Climate resilience in the greater bay area of South China Maria Francesch-Huidobro; 8. An adaptive legal framework for water security concerns in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao greater bay area Ping Yu Fan and Kwok Pan Chun; Part III. Law's Role in Promoting Hazard Mitigation: Intergovernmental, International, National, and Local Approaches: 9. Local resilience, land use law, and disaster planning John R. Nolon; 10. Financing city resilience Arthur C. Nelson; 11. Disaster, land use, and European Union law Juli Ponce; 12. Covid-19 and cooperation in times of disaster Matiangai Sirleaf; 13. Disaster recovery in rural communities Ann M. Eisenberg; 14. Wildfire federalism Stephen R. Miller; 15. A comparative review of hazard-prone housing acquisition laws, policies, and programs in the United States and Aotearoa New Zealand Gavin Smith and Wendy Saunders; 16. Urban transformation as a resilience strategy Asli Ceylan Oner and Haluk Özener; 17. How green cities prevent disasters? Wellington Migliari; 18. Constructing a resilient energy supply Shelley Welton; 19. Building a resilient power grid Robert R. M. Verchick; 20. Weaponizing private property and the chilling effect of regulatory takings jurisprudence in combating global warming Danaya C. Wright; Part IV. Private Sector Initiatives to Promote Disaster Resilience and Recovery: 21. Averting disasters through watershed policy advocacy Chinkie Peliño-Golle and Florence Chio Baula; 22. Insuring natural catastrophes in America Christopher French; 23. Corporate compliance and climate change Susan S. Kuo and Benjamin Means; Part V. Lawyers as Disaster Law and Policy Leaders: Training for Students and Guidance for Practitioners: 24. Creating blueprints for law school responses to natural disasters Jeffrey R. Baker, Christine E. Cerniglia, Davida Finger, Luz Herrera, and JoNel Newman; 25. Law and lawyers in disaster response Clifford J. Villa; Part VI. Cultural Heritage Protection and Cross-Disciplinary Opportunities for Advancing Disaster Law and Policy: 26. Scheduled monuments and sites at risk of coastal erosion Pernille Denise Frederiksen and Marianne Lindegaard Rasmussen; 27. Heritage-related disaster policy in the United States Sara C. Bronin; 28. Love for heritage in the time of Covid-19 Jack Tsen-Ta Lee; 29. Reflections on urban cultural heritage, public health, and public participation Ryan Rowberry; Part VII. Disasters and Vulnerable Communities: 30. After the storm Brie Sherwin; 31. Social construction of disaster survivors and displaced populations Alka Sapat, Arjola Belilaq, and Ann-Margaret Esnard; 32. From Covid-19 to climate change Cinnamon P. Carlarne; 33. Disasters and disability Lance Gable.