Title: How risk assessments by emergency management organisations fall prey to narrow framing

Authors: David Etkin

Addresses: Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto ON, M3J 1P3, Canada

Abstract: A review of risk assessments by a number of emergency management organisations shows that though ethical judgements are implicit in the methodologies and metrics used, they are not explicitly discussed. As a result, these assessments lack transparency and suffer from narrow framing. It is proposed that the framing be broadened to integrate ethical decision-making with risk assessment and to frame the concept of risk more broadly, to create a more holistic and relevant decision-making framework.

Keywords: ethical decision-making; risk assessment; emergency management; framing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEM.2019.099200

International Journal of Emergency Management, 2019 Vol.15 No.1, pp.81 - 97

Received: 09 Oct 2017
Accepted: 28 Apr 2018

Published online: 23 Apr 2019 *

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