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Environmental Geosciences (DEG)
Abstract
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-0984.2001.008001061.x
© 2001 American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Scientists and Coastal Hazards: Opportunities for Participation and Policy Change
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Thomas Birkland is a professor of public policy at the State University of New York at Albanys Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy. His research centers on environmental and natural hazards policy. He has written several articles on natural hazards, and is the author of After Disaster (Georgetown University Press), a study of the political effects of disasters.
ABSTRACT
Earthquakes
and hurricanes are important and costly natural hazards. Although there has
been a National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act since 1977, there is no parallel
statutory program dealing with the equally costly and dangerous hurricane hazard
and with coastal hazards in general. A primary reason for the lack of comprehensive
federal legislation is the lesser degree of 
scientific
input at congressional
hearings dealing with hurricane policy compared with the greater prominence
of science in earthquake policy-making. The differences between earthquake
and hurricane policy reflect broader factors that inhibit effective coastal
hazards policy-making in general. But with these factors come opportunities
for earth scientists to organize and press for more effective participation
in coastal hazards policy.
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