Nuclear Energy and Liability in South Asia Institutions, Legal Frameworks and Risk Assessment within SAARC /

• Main Author: Ram Mohan, M. P. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Law.; Nuclear energy.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; International law.; Comparative law.; International humanitarian law.; International environmental law.; International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict.; Nuclear Energy.; International Environmental Law.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.

This book advocates pursuing a regional approach to nuclear risk framework, which it argues is more promising in the current scenario than the non-achievable global regime. In the development of international legislation on liability, the nuclear energy sector represents an alternative approach to a...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction Nuclear Energy and Liability in South Asia
• Chapter 2. The Development of Institutions and Liability laws relating to Nuclear Energy
• Chapter 3. The Indian Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010: An Analysis
• Chapter 4. A Nuclear Liability Framework for South Asia
• Chapter 5. South Asian Nuclear Risk Zone: A Mapping Exercise
• Chapter 6. Establishing a South Asian Nuclear Risk Community: An Empirical Analysis
• Chapter 7. Conclusion and Suggestions.