Hurricane Preparedness among University Residential Housing Assistants and Staff
| Autor: | G. D. Lunsford, Robert V. Rohli, Jennifer M. Collins, Ashley M. Ludwig, Robin Ersing |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies Atmospheric Science Global and Planetary Change 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Emergency management business.industry Baton rouge 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology Public relations medicine.disease 01 natural sciences Hurricane preparedness Political science Preparedness Respondent medicine General knowledge Duration (project management) Natural disaster business Social Sciences (miscellaneous) 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Weather, Climate, and Society. 10:341-359 |
| ISSN: | 1948-8335 1948-8327 |
| Popis: | While much research has been invested in understanding preparedness among emergency managers during natural disasters, substantially less attention has been devoted to evaluating the level of understanding and preparedness among nonemergency management employees who must direct others during natural disasters. Among those second-tier leaders are university residential housing staff, who are responsible for the safety of thousands of youth who may be far from the influence of their family. Using varimax-rotated principal components analysis, an instrument was developed for assessing the knowledge and practices of such residential housing staff at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, in the wake of Hurricane Isaac (2012). Relationships were derived between hurricane preparedness and general knowledge of hurricane meteorology, experience with past hurricanes, preparation and threat anxiety, duration of experience of the housing staff and in residing in Baton Rouge, whether the respondent’s primar... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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