Modelling Community Preparation for Natural Hazards: Understanding Hazard Cognitions:

摘要: This article examines how personal beliefs about hazard events interact with social context factors to influence individuals interpret their relationship environment, assign meaning natural hazards and consequences, make preparedness decisions. Building on earlier work applying the same theoretical model volcanic preparedness, this earthquake flood preparedness. The study incorporates both quantitative qualitative approaches elicit more detailed information regarding influences underlying individuals' decisions adopt preparation activities minimise effects of hazards. Findings indicate that are not made in isolation. Through community level discourse processes importance is attached protective measures. It only when perceived as having greater salience than other threats people motivated prepare for effects. A major finding a distinction between trust distrust civic authorities. data suggest were strongly influenced by relevance provided these Delivering mitigation strategies involves engaging members order understand needs render meaningful assistance