Sharing environmental risks: how to control governments' losses in natural disasters
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Tables ix
List of Figures xiii
Preface xv
1 Natural Hazards and Infrastructure 1
Disasters Toll on Infrastructure, 2
The Federal Policy Dilemma, 5
Federal Disaster Relief Policy, 5
The Cost Containment Issue, 9
Efficiency and Equity Issues, 16
The State and Local Policy Dilemma, 17
A Look Ahead, 19
PART 1
PUBLIC LOSSES UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
2 Losses to the Public Sector
in Natural Disasters 25
Sources of Data, 26
The Magnitude of Losses, 29
Losses from Repetitive Events, 30
Types of Infrastructure Damaged, 32
Types of Governments with Losses, 35
How Losses Are Financed, 39
Inequities in Disaster Relief, 41
Inefficiencies in Disaster Relief, 45
Conclusions, 46
Notes, 48
3 The Special Case of Earthquake Disasters 49
The Federal and State Policy Context, 49
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Contents
The Whittier Narrows Case Study, 50
Overview of Losses, 51
Six Hard Hit Governments, 54
Conclusions, 58
PART 2
HOW TO CONTROL LOSSES
4 Financial Planning Strategies 63
Identifying Exposure to Risk, 64
Elimination of Risk, 65
Reduction of Risk, 65
Assumption of Risk, 66
Transfer of Risk, 68
Evaluating Risk Management Programs, 73
Using Risk Management Concepts
to Cope with Disasters, 73
Conclusions, 77
5 Physical Planning Strategies 78
Comprehensive Planning, 78
Community Facility Planning, 81
Capital Improvement Programming, 83
Growth Management, 83
Conclusions, 87
6 Theory Versus Practice 89
Some Lessons from Previous Research, 90
Answering Questions About
the State of Practice, 93
Many Governments Do Not Know
the Risks They Face, 99
Many Governments Are Not Reducing
Vulnerability to Loss, 99
Many Governments Are Not Purchasing Insurance
or Setting Aside Contingency Funds, 108
Overall, Governments Are Not Prepared
for Disasters, 113
Conclusions, 118
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PART 3
FOUR ISSUES IN SHARING
ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS
7 The Technical Feasibility of Risk Analysis 129
The Nature of Risk, 130
A General Approach to Risk Analysis, 132
Existing Methods, 141
Three Approaches to Risk Analysis, 144
Governments Capacity to Analyze Risk, 151
Conclusions, 153
8 Economic Considerations 154
The Individual s Perspective
on the Cost of Risk, 154
Policy Options from an Economic Perspective, 159
Local Impacts: An Illustration
from California, 163
Toward Efficient Public Policy, 169
Notes, 171
9 Local Decision Makers Willingness
to Share Risks 173
The Decision to Purchase Flood and
Earthquake Insurance, 173
Position in Local Government, 176
Judgments of Risk, 176
Cost Considerations, 181
External Requirements, 183
Situational and Organizational Factors, 185
Preferences for Alternative Ways
of Sharing Risks, 190
Sources of Funds to Meet the Local Costs
of Recovery, 190
Conclusions, 193
10 Intergovernmental Considerations 196
Characteristics of the Policy Arena, 196
Intergovernmental Issues, 200
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Political and Organizational Factors, 204
Implications for Alternative Risk
Management Approaches, 212
Conclusions, 215
PART 4
POLICY FUTURES
11 Future Directions for Public Policy 219
The Need for Change, 219
Constraints on Policy Choices, 221
Policy Futures, 224
A Proposal for Reform of Federal
Disaster Relief, 236
Appendix A: Questionnaire for 1987 Survey
of Risk Managers/Finance Directors 241
Appendix B: Questionnaire for 1987 Survey
of Public Works/Planning Directors 249
Appendix C: Questionnaire for 1988 Survey
on Natural Hazard Damages
to Public Facilities 255
References 267
Tables
1.1 Federal costs associated with presidentially declared
disasters, January 1, 1980 December 31, 1985 3
2.1 Total damages to public facilities from presidentially
declared natural disasters, 1980 1987,
by state and territory 31
2.2 Governments experiencing repetitive losses
in natural disasters, January 1, 1980 July 31, 1987 33
2.3 Losses to state and local governments in presidentially
declared natural disasters, 1980 1987,
by type of loss incurred 34
2.4 Estimated average annual losses to state
and local governments from natural hazards 36
2.5 Distribution of losses in presidentially declared natural
disasters, 1980 1987, by type of loss
and type of government 37
2.6 Methods used by local governments to finance
the reconstruction of public facilities damaged
in presidentially declared natural disasters 39
2.7 Local officials definition of disastrous loss and local
governments loss experience in terms
of their self defined definition of a disastrous loss 43
2.8 Per capita losses to cities and counties, by size
and wealth of local jurisdictions where losses occurred,
1980 1987 44
3.1 Public sector losses in the Whittier Narrows earthquake,
October 1, 1987 52
3.2 Types of losses local governments incurred
in the Whittier Narrows earthquake 53
3.3 Losses experienced by six hard hit jurisdictions in
the Whittier Narrows earthquake of October 1, 1987 55
x Tables
4.1 Group self insurance pools sponsored
by state municipal leagues 71
5.1 Physical planning hazard loss reduction measures 85
6.1 List of variables and measures 94
6.2 Characteristics of communities studied 97
6.3 Acquisition of information and conduct
of vulnerability analyses 100
6.4 Adoption of measures to reduce losses
to existing facilities 101
6.5 Factors associated with adoption of measures
to reduce losses to existing facilities 104
6.6 Adoption of measures to reduce losses to new facilities 106
6.7 Factors associated with adoption of measures
to reduce losses to future facilities 109
6.8 Purchase of insurance/contingency funds budgeted
for hazard damages HI
6.9 Overall disaster preparedness 114
6.10 Factors associated with overall preparedness 116
6A 1 Inventory of research findings on the determinants
of local hazards policy 119
7.1 Hazard parameters 134
8.1 Federal disaster assistance versus eligible losses
in selected California counties 165
8.2 Assessed value of private property, county assets,
and property tax delinquency rate in selected
California counties 166
8.3 Per capita estimates of county assets, private property,
losses from natural hazards, and federal aid
in selected California counties 167
9.1 Insurance purchase recommendations versus status as
jurisdiction: aided, refused aid, or having no disaster 174
9.2 Insurance purchase recommendations by position
in local government 177
9.3 Insurance purchase recommendation by judged odds of
experiencing a disastrous loss to public property
in any given year 178
Tables xi
9.4 Insurance purchase recommendation by judged odds
of receiving federal disaster assistance
for public property losses 179
9.5 Insurance purchase recommendation by rating
of the adequacy of flood and earthquake hazards
information available 180
9.6 Insurance purchase recommendation by rating
of the cost of flood and earthquake insurance 182
9.7 Insurance purchase recommendation by rating
of the cost of retrofitting structures to reduce losses 184
9.8 Insurance purchase recommendation by rating
of the influence of insurance carriers on insurance
purchase decisions 186
9.9 Insurance purchase recommendation by respondents
participation in organizational activities related
to hazard management 188
9.10 Insurance purchase recommendation by community
involvement in other risk management activities 189
9.11 Local officials estimates of the feasibility of alternative
risk sharing methods 191
9.12 Sources of local funding officials would use in the event
of a natural disaster 192
11.1 Simulated disaster relief payments for losses to cities of
2,500 or more population in natural disasters,
1980 1987 238
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Figures
7.1 Hazard intensity distribution 135
7.2 Spatial variation in hazard intensity 136
7.3 Typical damage function 139
7.4 Loss distributions 140
7.5 Earthquake intensity by county 146
7.6 Zipcodes in San Francisco 148
7.7 Component level map of water system and
floodplain 150
8.1 The cost of risk to a risk adverse individual
facing the possibility of losses to public
infrastructure from natural hazards 155
8.2 Cumulative percentage of total infrastructure
losses by per capita infrastructure losses 160
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