Choosing Trigger Rules Requires Disaster Decisionmakers

• It is challenging to choose trigger rules

• There are tough trade-offs between time, accuracy, budgets, and regrets

• The people who are responsible for disaster preparedness are responsible whether the trigger works or not

• They must make informed decisions about what to delegate to the math of predetermined Anticipatory Action Trigger Rules

What would you do?

Here is a tool for making choices between Anticipatory Action rules that has been used this past year