Incorporating the Rule of Law in Resiliency Analyses

Journal Article · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 2015 · The CIP Report

OSTI ID:1392963

Hummel, John R.; Lewis, Paul; Martinez-Moyano, Ignacio

In 2005, the United Nations (UN) World Conference on Disaster Reduction convened in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, with the goal of developing a 10-year strategy to guide countries in fostering resiliency to natural disasters.1 The Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) established five priorities to enhance community resiliency, emphasizing improvements in the rule of law as it relates to communities’ governing systems. The end of the first 10-year period of the HFA presents an opportunity for policymakers to examine how the rule of law could be incorporated in the analyses of progress toward the resiliency goals articulated in the HFA priorities. This paper discusses the relationship between the rule of law and resiliency, presents a case study of how the rule of law could be analyzed in the context of community resiliency based on the HFA priorities, and proposes a model of how the rule of law supports the community system activities necessary to achieve the resiliency enhancements described in the HFA.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
• Sponsoring Organization: Argonne National Laboratory
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-06CH11357
• OSTI ID: 1392963
• Journal Information: The CIP Report, Journal Name: The CIP Report Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 14; ISSN 9999-0006
• Publisher: Center for Infrastructure Protection & Homeland Security
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

Hyogo Framework for Action
Rule of law
governance