Hazards Technology and Fairness (1986) / Chapter Skim
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A behavioral fix was needed to complement the prevailing technological fix, and we sought to develop one with a broad program of management innovations in the form of scientific information, floodplain regulation, insurance, emergency evacuation, and incentives for floodproofing individual buildings. I started my career, therefore, skeptical of technological fixes and with a bias toward behavioral fixes.
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They combine both behavioral and technological fixes better crew training and better aircraft. In what follows, I suggest some alternative fixes for coping with technological hazards, but with the warning that, although they could be useful, they are not universally applicable.
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As a society we need to use our collective hazard management resources in ways that avoid the ponderousness of the regulatory system and the competitiveness of the marketplace.
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As physicians and the producers of vaccines can attest, malpractice and product liability suits threaten both innovation and useful institutions. But worst of all, the system with all its high costsprovides neither compensation nor fairness to large numbers of victims.
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Hazardous waste disposal practices concentrate wastes gathered over a large area in someone's backyard and pass on a legacy of care and risk to future generations (Kasperson, 19834.
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