The Societal Effects of Environmental Disasters in International Environmental Regulation

Abstract

The present study deals with the main characteristics and objectives of the post-disaster regulation in international – and regional, as well – context. It especially focuses on the paradigm-shifts of policies, principles and rules (adopted by the states in numerous rules), which are relevant in handling the environmental, political, societal and financial outcomes of the environmental disasters having transboundary effect. The well-known environmental disasters (e.g. from Seveso to Fukushima, mainly Chernobyl) and their crisis-management technics provide essential examples and solution mechanism to the whole international community and countries, which are facing with the same challenges and threats according to their characteristics and their exposures to similar environmental threats (whether they are man-made or not).