Why Don't Coastal Residents Choose to Evacuate for Hurricanes?

Coastal Management

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 97-112

  Petrolia, Daniel R ^a   Bhattacharjee, Sanjoy ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evacuation; Gulf Coast; Hurricane; Multinomial logit regression; Survey

Indexed keywords

DISABLED INDIVIDUALS; EVACUATION; GULF COAST; HURRICANE KATRINA; HYPOTHETICAL STORMS; INFLUENTIAL FACTORS; MAIL SURVEYS; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT; MULTINOMIALS; RANDOM SAMPLE; WIND SPEED;

LANDFORMS; MOBILE HOMES; SURVEYS;

HURRICANES;

COPING STRATEGY; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; HURRICANE EVENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY;

GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77950941216     PISSN: 08920753     EISSN: 15210421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08920751003605365     Document Type: Article

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