Disaster warning response: The effects of different types of personal experience

Natural Hazards

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 409-423

  Sharma, Upasna ^a   Patt, Anthony ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Communication of uncertainty; Community experience; False alarms; Past hazard experience; Tropical cyclones; Warning response

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WARNING SYSTEM;

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EID: 83855161596     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-0023-2     Document Type: Article

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