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SEMINAR: Adapting to Living with Bushfire and Earthquake Hazards: Integrating household, community and societal influences

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Adapting to Living with Bushfire and Earthquake Hazards: Integrating household, community and societal influences : This seminar discusses empirical findings regarding why people decide to prepare or decide not to prepare. Other events...
Despite the efforts and resources committed to encouraging people to prepare, levels of readiness remain low. Neither living in high risk areas nor providing people with information about risk and preparedness ensures that people prepare. This presentation argues that it is not information per se that encourages preparedness, but how people interpret hazards, mitigation measures, and sources of information in the social context they live in that determines levels of adoption of protective measures and resilience resources. This seminar discusses the findings of recent empirical work on bushfires (Portugal/Australia) and earthquakes (New Zealand) aimed at identifying why people decide to prepare or decide not to prepare. The findings highlight the role of mainstream community characteristics and competencies. Consequently, the implications for developing public education programs that integrate risk management and community engagement strategies are discussed.
Speaker(s) Professor Douglas Paton
Location Bayliss Building, G33 MCS Lecture Room
Contact Dr Petra Buergelt or Dr Patrick Clarke <[email protected]> : 6488 3266 or 0404 877798
Start Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:00
End Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:30
Submitted by Dianne Bettis <[email protected]>
Last Updated Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:41
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