On Risk And Disaster

by Daniels, Ronald J.; Kettl, Donald F.; Kunreuther, Howard; National Symposium on Risk And Disasters

• ISBN13: 9780812219593
• ISBN10: 0812219597
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-09
• Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

Summary

This volume gathers leaders from government, business, and nonprofit organizations, along with journalist from throughout the United States to examine objectively lessons that Hurricane Katrina teaches about our future.

Author Biography

Ronald J. Daniels is Provost and Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published widely, including Rethinking the Welfare State: The Prospects for Government by Voucher (with Michael Trebilcock) and The Security of Freedom: Essays on Canada's Anti-Terrorism Bill (coedited with Patrick Macklem and Kent Roach). Donald F. Kettl, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania, has written or edited System under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics, The Global Public Management Revolution, The Politics of the Administrative Process (with James W. Fesler), The Transformation of Governance: Public Administration for the 21st Century, among many other books. Howard Kunreuther is Professor and Codirector of the Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. His has written or coedited a number of books, including Catastrophe Modeling: A New Approach to Managing Risk (with Patricia Grossi) and Wharton on Making Decisions (with Stephen Hoch). Amy Gutmann is the eighth President of the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Why Deliberative Democracy? (with Dennis Thompson), Identity in Democracy, Democratic Education, Democracy and Disagreement (with Dennis Thompson), and Color Conscious (with K. Anthony Appiah). Her reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, Washington Post, and other general publications.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
AMY GUTMANN
Introduction	1	(14)
RONALD J. DANIELS, DONALD F. KETTL, AND HOWARD KUNREUTHER
Part One: The Challenge of the Gulf
On Their Own in Battered New Orleans	15	(12)
PETER G. GOSSELIN
Using Risk and Decision Analysis to Protect New Orleans Against Future Hurricanes	27	(14)
DETLOF VON WINTERFELDT
Planning for a City on the Brink	41	(18)
KENNETH R. FOSTER AND ROBERT GIEGENGACK
JARring Actions That Fuel the Floods	59	(18)
CAROLYN KOUSKY AND RICHARD ZECKHAUSER
Part Two: Thinking About Risk
Behaviorally Realistic Risk Management	77	(12)
BARUCH FISCHHOFF
Rationales and Instruments for Government Intervention in Natural Disasters	89	(20)
MICHAEL J. TREBILCOCK AND RONALD J. DANIELS
Social Inequality, Hazards, and Disasters	109	(20)
KATHLEEN TIERNEY
Equity Analysis and Natural Hazards Policy	129	(24)
MATTHEW D. ADLER
Part Three: Private Sector Strategies for Managing Risk
Why We Under-Prepare for Hazards	153	(22)
ROBERT J. MEYER
Has the Time Come for Comprehensive Natural Disaster Insurance?	175	(28)
HOWARD KUNREUTHER
Rethinking Disaster Policy After Hurricane Katrina	203	(20)
SCOTT E. HARRINGTON
Providing Economic Incentives to Build Disaster-Resistant Structures	223	(8)
HARVEY G. RYLAND
Part Four: The Government's Role in Disaster Preparedness and Response
Role of Public Health and Clinical Medicine in Preparing for Disasters	231	(12)
BRIAN STROM
Hurricane Katrina as a Bureaucratic Nightmare	243	(12)
VICKI BIER
The Katrina Breakdown	255	(8)
JONATHAN WALTERS AND DONALD F. KETTL
Bibliography	263	(24)
Acknowledgments	287	(2)
List of Contributors	289