Cooperating with nature: confronting natural hazards with land use planning for sustainable communities
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In: Westview special studies in public policy and public systems management
In: Report 78
In: Water Resources Research Institute report no. 52
In: Water Resources Research Institute report no. 44
In: Popular government, Band 73, Heft 3, S. 40-44
ISSN: 0032-4515
In: Popular government, Band 73, Heft 3, S. 45
ISSN: 0032-4515
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 604, Heft 1, S. 171-191
ISSN: 1552-3349
The unprecedented losses from Hurricane Katrina can be explained by two paradoxes. The safe development paradox is that in trying to make hazardous areas safer, the federal government in fact substantially increased the potential for catastrophic property damages and economic loss. The local government paradox is that while their citizens bear the brunt of human suffering and financial loss in disasters, local officials pay insufficient attention to policies to limit vulnerability. The author demonstrates in this article that in spite of the two paradoxes, disaster losses can be blunted if local governments prepare comprehensive plans that pay attention to hazard mitigation. The federal government can take steps to increase local government commitment to planning and hazard mitigation by making relatively small adjustments to the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 and the Flood Insurance Act. To be more certain of reducing disaster losses, however, the author suggests that we need a major reorientation of the National Flood Insurance Program from insuring individuals to insuring communities.
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 604, S. 171-191
ISSN: 1552-3349
The unprecedented losses from Hurricane Katrina can be explained by two paradoxes. The safe development paradox is that in trying to make hazardous areas safer, the federal government in fact substantially increased the potential for catastrophic property damages & economic loss. The local government paradox is that while their citizens bear the brunt of human suffering & financial loss in disasters, local officials pay insufficient attention to policies to limit vulnerability. The author demonstrates in this article that in spite of the two paradoxes, disaster losses can be blunted if local governments prepare comprehensive plans that pay attention to hazard mitigation. The federal government can take steps to increase local government commitment to planning & hazard mitigation by making relatively small adjustments to the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 & the Flood Insurance Act. To be more certain of reducing disaster losses, however, the author suggests that we need a major reorientation of the National Flood Insurance Program from insuring individuals to insuring communities. Tables, Appendixes, References. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright 2006 The American Academy of Political and Social Science.]
In: Environmental management: an international journal for decision makers, scientists, and environmental auditors, Band 19, Heft 3, S. 359-370
ISSN: 1432-1009