“When it comes to Surfside, building retrofits, and climate change, the most important bias affecting risk perception, in my mind, is solution aversion,” Michele Wucker, author of “You Are What You Risk' wrote me. “If you don't like the solution, you perceive the risk to be lower.'
“That is, if you don't like the solution, you minimize the risk. The Surfside condo board had sticker stock when it came to what had to be done which is why they delayed for three years. Because they did not like the solution, they dialed down their risk perceptions involving the building safety issues,” she added.
“I think if we recognize that, since there’s a public safety issue that goes in direct competition to the financial interest of building owners, it falls right in the role of civic government,” structural engineer and architect, Professor and Chair of Architecture at the University of WashingtonMinneapolis, MN Code of OrdinancesTo address the potentially dangerous challenge, Simonen suggested that a city ordinance “would put more teeth, which would then give the requirements and maybe some...
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