Environmental Disasters and Global Governance: Building Resilience through Policy and Cooperation

Environmental Disasters and Global Governance: Building Resilience through Policy and Cooperation offers a powerful and timely exploration of how nations, communities, and institutions confront the escalating realities of climate-induced and human-made environmental crises. As floods, extreme rainfall, pollution, displacement, and ecosystem disruptions increasingly transcend borders, the book asks a critical question: How can global governance evolve to meet the scale, speed, and complexity of today’s environmental challenges?
Bringing together thirty-one interdisciplinary chapters from scholars, practitioners, and emerging researchers across India and the world, this volume provides a rich mosaic of perspectives that blend theory, practice, and on-ground experience. The contributors examine the globalization of environmental risks, the politics of transboundary disaster governance, and the transformative role of science, technology, and data in shaping climate response systems.
The book also delves into urgent questions of justice and equity—probing the digital divide, the ethics of AI-enabled early warning systems, and the challenges of ensuring fair access to technology in disaster-prone regions. Highlighting the importance of indigenous knowledge, sustainable agriculture, and community-driven adaptation, the volume underscores that resilience is rooted not only in policies and technologies but also in cultural wisdom and local leadership.
With case studies spanning North-East India, Assam, Mizoram, Meghalaya, African cities, and the Vietnam–China borderlands, the book demonstrates how environmental governance unfolds differently across regions while confronting shared structural vulnerabilities. Discussions of climate apartheid, plastic pollution, and global economic pressures further reveal the deep political and social dimensions of disaster governance.
Rigorous, accessible, and forward-looking, this volume reimagines resilience as the capacity to transform governance systems, empower communities, and integrate innovation with ethics. It is an essential resource for scholars, policymakers, practitioners, and readers committed to building a more just, sustainable, and disaster-resilient world