Child abuse results from a complex interaction of individual, family and societal risk factors. (child-encyclopedia.com)
There are many other scientific, economic, and ethical questions to resolve first, including the proper discount rate and level of societal risk aversion. (volokh.com)
My point is the selfish one, that for a social scientist looking at societal risk perception and adaptive capacity in flood risk areas, this research represents a dilemma. (realclimate.org)