Why do people take fewer damage mitigation actions than survival actions? other factors outweigh cost

Natural Hazards Review

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  McClure, John ^a   Spittal, Matthew J ^b   Fischer, Ronald ^a   Charleson, Andrew ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Causal attributions; Cost; Earthquake preparedness; Mitigation; Survival; Time orientation

Indexed keywords

COSTS; EARTHQUAKES; WATER SUPPLY;

CAUSAL ATTRIBUTIONS; FOLLOW UP; MITIGATION; PERCEIVED COSTS; SHORT TERM; SURVIVAL;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

BUILDING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DAMAGE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PERCEPTION; SURVIVAL;

EID: 84988259029     PISSN: 15276988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000152     Document Type: Article

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