Proactive Risk Disclosure Invoked for Climate-Driven Flood Impacts
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/88#Proactive_Risk_Disclosure_Invoked_for_Climate-Driven_Flood_Impacts
Properties
Instance of
Applied to
Client B Cost-Directing Developer
Local Permitting Regulatory Authority
Upstream Neighborhood Twenty Homes Community
Balancing with
Client Loyalty
Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits
Concrete expression
Engineer A must proactively communicate the identified climate-driven flood risks to Client B, regulatory authorities, and the affected upstream community without waiting for formal requests or for harm to materialize
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Interpretation
The proactive disclosure obligation requires Engineer A to initiate disclosure of the flood risk through the graduated escalation sequence rather than remaining silent in the absence of a specific request for risk information
Invoked by
Engineer A Tidal Crossing Infrastructure Design Engineer
Tension resolution
The proactive disclosure obligation is triggered by the identification of reasonably likely and significant impacts on third-party welfare, regardless of whether the client has requested such disclosure
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A should engage Client B in discussions about the need for the detailed evaluation and disclosure of the potential impacts on the public and alternatives for the project to mitigate those impacts, and the potential risk to Client B of not evaluating the potential impacts.
Text references
Engineer A should engage Client B in discussions about the need for the detailed evaluation and disclosure of the potential impacts on the public and alternatives for the project to mitigate those impacts, and the potential risk to Client B of not evaluating the potential impacts.
TTL
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case88:Proactive_Risk_Disclosure_Invoked_for_Climate-Driven_Flood_Impacts a proeth:ProactiveRiskDisclosure,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Proactive Risk Disclosure Invoked for Climate-Driven Flood Impacts" ;
proeth:appliedto "Client B Cost-Directing Developer",
"Local Permitting Regulatory Authority",
"Upstream Neighborhood Twenty Homes Community" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Client Loyalty",
"Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A must proactively communicate the identified climate-driven flood risks to Client B, regulatory authorities, and the affected upstream community without waiting for formal requests or for harm to materialize" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "88" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-26T00:19:27.254437+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "88" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-26T00:19:27.254437+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "The proactive disclosure obligation requires Engineer A to initiate disclosure of the flood risk through the graduated escalation sequence rather than remaining silent in the absence of a specific request for risk information" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Tidal Crossing Infrastructure Design Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Proactive Risk Disclosure" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A should engage Client B in discussions about the need for the detailed evaluation and disclosure of the potential impacts on the public and alternatives for the project to mitigate those impacts, and the potential risk to Client B of not evaluating the potential impacts." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The proactive disclosure obligation is triggered by the identification of reasonably likely and significant impacts on third-party welfare, regardless of whether the client has requested such disclosure" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A should engage Client B in discussions about the need for the detailed evaluation and disclosure of the potential impacts on the public and alternatives for the project to mitigate those impacts, and the potential risk to Client B of not evaluating the potential impacts." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 88 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-26T00:31:11.071240"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 88 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
88
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-26T00:19:27.254437+00:00
First case
88
Generated
2026-02-26T00:19:27.254437+00:00
Attributed to
Case 88 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-26T00:31:11.071240
Generated by
ProEthica Case 88 Extraction