A Conversation on Catastrophic Incentives

Why Approaches for Disasters Fall Short

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Jeff Schlegelmilch, Ellen Carlin, Jason Michel Etchegaray

VideoPublished Nov 7, 2024

Guest speakers Jeff Schlegelmilch and Ellen Carlin joined RAND's Disaster Management & Resilience Program for a discussion about their book, Catastrophic Incentives: Why Our Approaches to Disasters Keep Falling Short. The authors examined 20 years of disasters from the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the COVID-19 pandemic to show how flawed incentive structures make the world more vulnerable when catastrophe strikes.

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Schlegelmilch, Jeff, Ellen Carlin, and Jason Michel Etchegaray, A Conversation on Catastrophic Incentives: Why Approaches for Disasters Fall Short, Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center operated by the RAND Corporation, CF-A3234-1, 2024. As of April 8, 2025: https://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CFA3234-1.html

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Schlegelmilch, Jeff, Ellen Carlin, and Jason Michel Etchegaray, A Conversation on Catastrophic Incentives: Why Approaches for Disasters Fall Short. Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center operated by the RAND Corporation, 2024. https://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CFA3234-1.html.
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