The Protective Action Decision Model (PADM) is a multistage model that is based on
findings from research on people's responses to environmental hazards and disasters. The …

Studies are continuously performed to improve risk communication campaign designs to
better prepare residents to act in the safest manner during an emergency. To that end, this …

Purpose–This paper seeks to further develop a model of natural hazard preparedness by
examining the role of attitudes to natural hazards and their mitigation and social norms. It …

For the past four, decades researchers in the field of natural hazards have studied
extensively how people “hear” warning messages of potential natural disasters and then …

Warning research has identified people's major information sources as environmental cues,
social cues, and social warnings from authorities, news media, and peers. Social sources …

Despite considerable effort and expenditure on public hazard education, levels of disaster
preparedness remain low. By integrating and expanding on natural hazards and health …

This article reviews the main insights from selected literature on risk perception, particularly
in connection with natural hazards. It includes numerous case studies on perception and …

9/11. Tornadoes. Emergency preparedness. Whether explaining parts per million to a
community exposed to contaminated groundwater or launching a campaign to encourage …

Understanding how people interpret risks and choose actions based on their interpretations
is vital to any strategy for disaster reduction. We review relevant literature with the aim of …

Purpose–This paper seeks to examine how perception of the relationship between people
and sources of information influence hazard preparedness and how trust in civic emergency …