Encouraging Earthquake-Resistant Construction: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Nepal

Sanquini, A.; Thapaliya, Sundar M.; Wood, Michele M.; Baiocchi, Michael; Hilley, G. E.

doi:10.1193/102015eqs156m

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“…Although it is important to encourage steps to help recovery, such as creating an emergency kit and keeping it handy, research into increasing mitigation actions should provide substantial benefits for earthquake survival and reduced damage. For example, Sanquini, Thapaliya, and Wood (2016) created communications to increase support for earthquake-resistant construction and strengthening in the Kathmandu valley in Nepal (see also Sanquini, Thapaliya, Wood, Baiocchi, & Hilley, 2016). Given the high earthquake risk in the region, this type of mitigation can reduce damage and save lives.…”

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“…First, there is a recognized lack of utilization of social norms in natural hazards research (Solberg et al, 2010). Although some research has examined the role of social cues and observation of behavior on earthquake preparation (e.g., Sanquini, Thapaliya, & Wood, 2016; Sanquini, Thapaliya, Wood, et al, 2016; Wood et al, 2012), past research has not specifically applied social norms to this domain. We therefore extend the theory to earthquake preparation.…”

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Do Social Norms Affect Support for Earthquake-Strengthening Legislation? Comparing the Effects of Descriptive and Injunctive Norms

Vinnell

Milfont

McClure

2018

Environment and Behavior

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Social norms have been successfully applied in health promotion and environmental conservation, but their potential for encouraging natural hazard preparation is relatively untested. This research extends the focus theory of normative conduct to natural hazards and cognitive-behavioral outcomes by examining whether focusing individuals on descriptive and injunctive norms increases their support for earthquake-strengthening legislation in a seismically active city: Wellington, New Zealand. In a large community sample ( N = 690), the injunctive norm condition increased support for the legislation compared with the control, whereas the descriptive norm condition did not. In contrast, the descriptive norm condition raised judgments of the feasibility of the strengthening work compared with the control, whereas the injunctive norm condition did not. These findings support previous research demonstrating the differing effects of descriptive and injunctive forms of normative information, and suggest that using both in the same communication is the best strategy for enhancing support for earthquake-strengthening legislation.

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Section: Disaster Risk Communicationmentioning

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Do Social Norms Affect Support for Earthquake-Strengthening Legislation? Comparing the Effects of Descriptive and Injunctive Norms

Vinnell

Milfont

McClure

2018

Environment and Behavior

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“…The threat cannot be reduced for disasters caused by earthquake shocks (Hegger et al, 2014). However, the vulnerability of buildings and their communities can be reduced, and the capacity of disaster management agencies and communities can be increased by educating the general public about seismic issues and the construction community about earthquake-resistant buildings (Sanquini, 2015).…”

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Public Policy Approach to Disaster Risk Anticipation Strategies in Civil Engineering Studies in Indonesia

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Siburian

Heryani

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This study described a public policy approach to anticipate the impact of natural disasters in Indonesia's civil engineering context. Many studies have reported how public policy approaches anticipate and manage disaster risk strategies. However, few relate to the role of civil engineering, especially the younger generation involved in designing policies and playing their role in natural disaster management. This study has reviewed 50 disaster papers that we analyzed with a phenomenological approach to understanding the role and approach of public policy in dealing with disaster hazards and risks. Our Monalisa system involves data coding, in-depth evaluation, and impotence of data to get the most answers. After a series of studies and discussions, we can conclude that the disaster management policy was originally a policy designed by the state and then directed to the National Disaster Management Agency following presidential regulations so that the law was made an effort to cope with disasters and be responsible to the state. The relationship between civil engineering is that they participate in policy and impact analysis studies closely related to public and private development. We hope that these findings will become an essential friend for further studies.

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“…Personal communication with Anne Sanquini during 2017. The full research is described inSanquini et al (2016).…”

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Dealing with earthquakes: the practice of seismic engineering ‘as if people mattered’

Booth¹

2018

Bull Earthquake Eng

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This paper sets out to explore the different ways in which communities deal with earthquakes. As is well known, the ability to recover from a damaging earthquake varies greatly across the world. The events of 2010 were of course a striking reminder of this, when the death toll from the Haïti earthquake was at least 100,000; in the very different conditions of Chile, a much larger event the same year killed just 525 people. In a narrow sense, much of the difference can be explained in terms of the engineering properties of the physical infrastructure affected; the better it has been designed and constructed to withstand strong ground shaking, the greater the chance that the community affected has of recovering quickly. However, the central thesis of this paper is that the ability of a community to deal with earthquakes involves much more than just technical factors. Seismically resilient buildings and other infrastructure will only be in place when an earthquake strikes if there has been a willingness and ability to devote the necessary resources to building them. Moreover, taking prior steps to limit physical damage is only one part of the process for dealing with earthquakes; providing for immediate post-earthquake needs and for the longer term rebuilding of communities is also important. To pursue these issues further, and how they might affect engineers, I visited four widely differing regions of high seismicity. During this study tour, I examined the societal context in which seismic engineers operate and talked to many people involved in earthquake protection and response. The intention was to identify the ways in which the ability of communities to deal with earthquakes depend on societal factors such as economics, politics and more general cultural dimensions. Based on these investigations, I believe that seismic engineers can contribute more effectively to ensuring successful outcomes after an earthquake strikes if fully aware of these societal factors. We need to look beyond our narrow technical field of providing earthquake resistant facilities and widen our vision to consider the complex systems, both 'hard' and 'soft', in which those facilities will operate. E. F. Schumacher's famous book (Schumacher 1973) 'Small is beautiful' has the subtitle 'the study of economics as if people mattered'. I believe that seismic engineering should be practised 'as if people mattered'.

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Encouraging Earthquake-Resistant Construction: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Nepal

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Do Social Norms Affect Support for Earthquake-Strengthening Legislation? Comparing the Effects of Descriptive and Injunctive Norms

Do Social Norms Affect Support for Earthquake-Strengthening Legislation? Comparing the Effects of Descriptive and Injunctive Norms

Public Policy Approach to Disaster Risk Anticipation Strategies in Civil Engineering Studies in Indonesia

Dealing with earthquakes: the practice of seismic engineering ‘as if people mattered’

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