Legal response to natural disasters
By: editors, Jeremy Finn, Elizabeth Toomey
Contributors: New Zealand Law Foundation
Publisher: Thomson Reuters
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Wellington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780864729057
Subjects: Natural disasters; Law and legislation; Earthquake insurance claims; Canterbury Earthquake, N.Z., 2010; Disaster relief
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jeremy Finn; title: Methodology / Jeremy Finn; title: The Surveys : Findings and Trends /  Elizabeth Toomey; title: United States of America Experiences /   Jeremy Finn and Elizabeth Toomey; title: Floods / Jeremy Finn; title: Media, Family and Employment / Jeremy Finn, Ursula Cheer and Sarah Rosanowski; title: An Unusual Link : Natural Disasters, Criminal Law   and Justice   and the Legal Position of  Volunteers / Jeremy Finn; title: Frustration of Contract and Dealing with Disasters / Jeremy Finn; title: Natural Disaster and Tax : Issues from the Canterbury Earthquakes / Andrew Maples and Adrian Sawyer; title: Insurance Issues /  Jeremy Finn; title: Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Act 2011 :  Land and Resource Management Issues / Elizabeth Toomey; title: Residential Tenancies / Elizabeth Toomey; title: The Problems Encountered by Commercial Landlords and Tenants  after the Canterbury Earthquakes / Toni Collins; title: Unit Titles, Cross-Leases and Retirement Villages / Alison Chamberlain; title: Conclusion / Elizabeth Toomey.