Document: 10491
Title: Ethical dilemmas in hazard mitigation.
Author: Beatley, Timothy.
North Carolina, US; Dec. 1996



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Section A: Acknowledgments / Introduction / Research methods / Overview of findigs: ethical dimensions of mitigation / Professions and professional ethics / Who is responsible for safety? / Procedural fairness; equal treatment / Dilemas in creative implementation of mitigation / The cost of mitigation: tradeoffs in the use of limited public funds / Identifying and structuring value priorities in mitigation: public safety versus property protection
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Section B: Environmental values and ethics / Historic preservation values / Distributive equity / Questions of acceptable risk / Defining the moral community
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Section C: Culpability, harm and blame / NIMBYism in mitigation and recovery / Who should pay for mitigation / Entitlements and expectations / Political ethics / Assumptions in the methods of analysis and choice / Issues of scientific and technological uncertainty
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Section D: Personal freedom, lifestyle choices and paternalism / Property rights and the taking issue / Conclusions and recommendations / References
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