title: The blind spot in risk ethics: managing natural hazards.
abstract: Many risk scholars recognize the importance of including ethical considerations in risk management. Risk ethics can provide in-depth ethical analysis so that ethical considerations can be part of risk-related decisions, rather than an afterthought to those decisions. In this article, I present a brief sketch of the field of risk ethics. I argue that risk ethics has a bias toward technological hazards, thereby overlooking the risks that stem from natural and semi-natural hazards. In order to make a contribution to the field of risk research, risks ethics should broaden its scope to include natural and semi-natural hazards and develop normative distribution criteria that can support decision making on such hazards.
authors.affiliation: Department of Technology, Policy and Management, Technical University Delft, PO Box 5015, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands;. N.Doorn@tudelft.nl.
authors.forename: Neelke
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Doorn
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D004190:Disasters; D007258:Informed Consent; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000941:ethics* / Q000379:methods; D012308:Risk Management / Q000941:ethics* / Q000379:methods
keywords: Distribution problem; ethics; natural hazard; responsibility