 | Submitted by Mario Gustavo Ordaz on Tue, 04/14/2012 » For purposes of discussion, three reasons are proposed: 1. Regardless of our ideological view of disasters and their causes, we would all agree that preferences can be established, so that for a given frequency of occurrence (e.g., a disaster occurring once every ten years), we prefer a disaster of small impact to one of major impact. Therefore, the scale of a disaster is relevant, and we have an obligation to establish ways to measure that scale. Read More » |