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Natural Hazards and Public Choice: The State and Local Politics of Hazard Mitigation . By Rossi Peter H., Wright James D., and Weber-Burdin Eleanor. (New York: Academic Press, 1982. Pp. x + 337. $29.50.)

The unpredictability and magnitude of natural disasters makes their control severely limited. Because their impacts can be influenced, there is a "politics of natural hazards," usually involving policy options that come into direct conflict with other individual and community values. Peter H. Rossi, James D. Wright, and Eleanor Weber-Burdin, affiliated with the Social and Demographic Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts and supported by a National Science Foundation grant, have attempted to assess the current state and local political environment surrounding the management of natural hazard risk. They measured the amount of support for nonstructural disaster mitigation policies and programs—those involving land-use management techniques, broadly construed to include planning and zoning policies as well as building and construction standards. The book is important because it deals with the nonstructural options that are the emerging trend in natural disaster policy, with foundations in such legislation as the National Flood Insurance Program and chances for success residing in the variety of regulatory actions and coordinating activities of state and local governments.