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- Title
- Alternative Risk Management Policies for State and Local Governments.
- File
- PB83128983.pdf
- Author(s)
- Okrent, D.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., June 1982, 173 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- UCLA-ENG-8240
- Abstract
- A study of risk management at the state and local levels is described and some proposals for improvement are considered. Risk management is distinguished from insurance management in that it is unconcerned with fault in the legal sense and tries to anticipate losses to life and health as a means of devising corrective strategies. Two case studies, one of seismically substandard buildings in Los Angeles and one involving risks from drinking water, are presented. A wide variation in risk management is shown to exist among states and within states and, at the local level, the variation is shown to be even greater. It is found that quantitative grasp of risk seldom exists in state and local government.
- Keywords
- Forecasting; State government; Risk; Legal aspects; Hazards; Safety; Government policies; Management; Local government; Earthquakes