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Assessing federal research and development for hazard loss reduction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meade, Charles
Other Authors: Abbott, Megan, 1971-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2003.
Subjects:
Natural disasters > United States.
Emergency management > Research > United States.
Environmental risk assessment > United States.
Earthquakes > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • The federal response to the problem
  • The role of federal R&D in hazard loss reduction
  • Our approach
  • Quantifying R&D for hazard loss reduction
  • Identifying R&D funds
  • Analysis criteria: isolating hazard loss R&D
  • Characterizing the R&D effort
  • Types of R&D programs that contribute to hazard loss
  • Reduction
  • Funding distribution by program type
  • Assessing program impact
  • Overall assessments
  • The policy challenge for hazard loss R&D
  • The missing metric
  • The human factor
  • The implementation gap
  • The current R&D payoff
  • Key steps for policymakers
  • Summary and conclusions
  • The contribution of R&D to hazard loss reduction
  • What are we asking of R&D?
  • What are we asking of hazard loss R&D?