Research on evacuation from natural disasters has been published across the peer‐
reviewed literature among several disparate disciplinary outlets and has suggested a wide …

The United States has no comprehensive national warning strategy that covers all hazards
in all places. Instead, public warning practices are decentralized across different …

Losses from environmental hazards have escalated in the past decade, prompting a
reorientation of emergency management systems away from simple postevent response …

Given the potential of modern warning technology to save lives, discovering whether it is
possible to craft mobile alerts for imminent events in a way that reduces people's tendency to …

As a well balanced and fully illustrated introductory text, this book provides a comprehensive
overview of the physical, technological and social components of natural disaster. The main …

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

Each of these Handbooks survey the field in a critical manner, evaluating theoretical models
in light of the best available empirical evidence. Distinctively sociological approaches are …

The theory of risk communication was tested with data on public perception of risk and
response to aftershock warnings during the post-impact Loma Prieta earthquake …

While mass panic (and/or violence) and self-preservation are often assumed to be the
natural response to physical danger and perceived entrapment, the literature indicates that …

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 …