Hurricane threat in Florida: examining household perceptions, beliefs, and actions
| Autor: | Victoria Basolo, Laura J. Steinberg, Stephen Gant |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies Sample (statistics) 02 engineering and technology Development 01 natural sciences Perception medicine Set (psychology) 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science media_common 021110 strategic defence & security studies Global and Planetary Change medicine.disease Hazard Hurricane preparedness Risk perception Local government Preparedness Psychology Social psychology psychological phenomena and processes |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Hazards. 16:253-275 |
| ISSN: | 1878-0059 1747-7891 |
| Popis: | Households in hurricane-prone regions respond to hurricane threat in numerous ways. Perceptions about their risk and other factors are thought to influence individuals’ decisions to take protective actions for hurricanes. This research investigates the perceptions, behavioral intentions, and actual protective actions of a sample of residents in Miami-Dade County, Florida. We use unique data collected via a telephone survey to investigate a set of factors including risk perception, perceived local government readiness for a hurricane, past hurricane experience, hazard information exposure, and demographics, which have been posited to influence perceived hurricane preparedness, intent to evacuate under hurricane threat, and actual hurricane preparedness. The analytic results show that risk perception was positively associated with perceived preparedness, intent to evacuate, and one of the actual preparedness measures. Perceived local government readiness for a hurricane also was positively related t... |
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