Some, including not just a few emergency managers, view hazards such as earthquakes as technical problems suitable for a combination of engineering, planning, and specialized managerial solutions, and people, if they are mentioned at all, are seen largely as impediments to carrying out the technocratic solutions, because they fail to See: The risks they face (e.g. Mileti and Fitzpatrick 1993).However, by concentrating on the physical risks, projected extreme events, and worst case scenarios, much is ignored (Bolin with Stanford 1998, 20).