Ethical Issues in Natural Hazards Management

9312161披头士对自然灾害的管理引发了许多伦理问题。它们出现在从先前的缓解到重建的所有阶段，并涉及到各种灾害，无论是地震还是洪水。制定管理政策和决策的人很少明确地认为它们涉及道德选择；通常，他们从技术、政治和经济角度来看待它们。该项目旨在扩大对自然灾害管理领域中出现的伦理问题的性质的理解，以及对公职人员在解决这些问题方面可能有用的各种概念、标准和其他伦理工具的理解。研究任务是概念性的和经验性的，包括进一步审查相关文献和制定概念框架，对一系列提出重大伦理问题的危险案例进行实地研究，以及编写案例手册和伦理准则。文献审查将精选灾害和灾害文献以及应用伦理学文献，以确定在制定伦理概念框架和与研究的实地工作部分特别相关的案例时应使用的核心伦理问题。案例研究将收集和汇编背景材料，并进行电话和现场采访。案例手册将包含案例研究的摘要，每个案例研究都侧重于道德问题，并以一系列突出道德问题的问题结束，以及一套试图促进危险管理的道德判断的指导方针。这本书将广泛发行。***

9312161 Beatley Management of natural hazards raises many ethical questions. They arise at all stages from prior mitigation to reconstruction, and with respect to all kinds of hazards, whether earthquakes or floods. Rarely do those making management policies and decisions see them explicitly as involving ethical choices; typically, they view them in technical, political and economic terms. This project seeks to expand the understanding of the nature of ethical issues which arise in the area of natural hazards management, and of the variety of concepts, standards and other ethical tools that could be useful to public officials in resolving these issues. The research tasks are conceptual and empirical, involving further review of the relevant literatures and development of a conceptual framework, fieldwork on a set of hazard case studies which raise significant ethical questions, and the preparation of casebook and ethical guidelines. The literature review will cull the hazards and disaster literature and the applied ethics literature in order to identify central ethical questions of use in developing a framework of ethical concepts and cases of particular relevance for the fieldwork portion of the study. Case studies will collect and compile background materials and conduct telephone and on-site interviews. The casebook will contain summaries of the case studies, each focusing on ethical issues and ending with a set of questions highlighting the ethical problems, and a set of guidelines attempting to facilitate ethical judgment for hazards management. The book will be widely distributed. ***