The use of participatory modeling to promote social learning and facilitate community disaster planning

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 45, Issue , 2015, Pages 109-122

  Henly Shepard, Sarah ^a   Gray, Steven A ^b   Cox, Linda J ^c  

^a Disaster Resilience LLC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Climate change; Disaster; Mental models; Resilience; Social learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY PROGRAM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DISASTER PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FUZZY LOGIC; HAZARD; HUMAN; LEARNING ALGORITHM; NATURAL DISASTER; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; POLITICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL BELIEF; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIOECONOMICS; TSUNAMI;

EID: 84909581363     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2014.10.004     Document Type: Article

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