Open AccessDisaster trials: a step forward
Author(s) -
Mara Benadusi,
Sandrine Revet
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
hal (le centre pour la communication scientifique directe)
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.7432/aam180201
Subject(s) - computer science
In recent decades, courtrooms have becomea key arena for voicing claims and condemnationlinked to disasters in all their possible forms: natural,technological, environmental and health disasters.The sentencing of three Chilean public officialscharged with manslaughter for not soundingthe tsunami alarm following an earthquake in 2010,or the trial in which 900 private citizens accusedthe Dutch government of disregarding the risksassociated with climate change, which culminatedin a guilty verdict handed down in June 2015 bythe Court of First Instance – a hugely importantprecedent in international jurisprudence – are onlya few of the most recent examples of this trend