Citation

Boyce JK. Disasters 2000; 24(3): 254-261.

Affiliation

Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 01003, USA. boyce@econs.umass.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11026158

Abstract

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.

Language: en