The Ostrich Paradox: Why We Underprepare for Disasters

• How people make decisions when confronted with high-consequence, low-probability events— and how these decisions can go awry • The 6 biases that lead individuals, communities, and institutions to make grave errors that cost lives • The Behavioral Risk Audit, a systematic approach for improving preparedness by recognizing these biases and designing strategies that anticipate them • Why, if we are to be better prepared for disasters, we need to learn to be more like ostriches, not less