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Let Them Eat Risk? Wealth, Rights and Disaster Vulnerability
Author(s) -
Boyce James K.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
disasters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.744
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-7717
pISSN - 0361-3666
DOI - 10.1111/1467-7717.00146
Subject(s) - vulnerability (computing) , disaster risk reduction , face (sociological concept) , suicide prevention , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , injury prevention , reduction (mathematics) , occupational safety and health , vulnerability assessment , computer security , business , political science , environmental health , medicine , psychology , sociology , economics , social psychology , computer science , economic growth , law , social science , psychological resilience , mathematics , geometry
Disaster‐vulnerability reduction is an impure public good: when provided to one it is provided to others, but not equally provided to all. This means that in addition to the question of how much disaster‐vulnerability reduction to provide, policymakers face the question of to whom it should be provided. This essay distinguishes between two broad classes of approaches to the latter question, one based on wealth, the other on rights.