The role of prior experience in informing and motivating earthquake preparedness

Becker, Julia; Paton, Douglas; Johnston, David; Ronan, Kevin R.; McClure, John

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.03.006

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“…In addition, only a year before the interview there was a flood event in the area from the sea without consequences. This agrees with Terpstra (2011), who noted that non-victims of a flood event do not necessarily have negative feelings about it, and with Becker et al (2017), who claimed that individuals who successfully faced an emergency are less inclined to adopt coping measures, thus increasing their self-confidence. Regarding other expressed behaviour, in the city of Imola, the largest city studied, the category "stay at home" was reported more often than in other areas.…”

Section: Emilia Romagna Regionsupporting

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From tale to reality: Geographical differences in children's flood‐risk perception

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Few studies have approached children's behaviour during flood disasters, and none of them were in Italy. In this study we performed an analysis of flood-risk perception in children aged between six and 14 years in three Italian regions characterised by diverse typologies of flood phenomena. To perform such an analysis, we collected data using a fictional story which, through identification with the protagonist, allowed for reliable and spontaneous answers from the young respondents. The studied communities were the pilot areas of the European research project LIFE PRIMES, "Preventing flooding RIsks by Making resilient communitiES." The findings highlighted various expressed behaviours, with some differences between areas. The most unsafe expressed behaviour was "running outside." Such a reaction becomes proportionally less important from younger to older respondents. The safest expressed behaviour was "reaching a high place," which appears later in children and becomes more important from younger to older respondents. Not all communities demonstrated a good correlation between those two behaviours and age groups. The analysis suggests the need to implement educational and training activities specifically focused on children's needs during flood emergencies and that take into account the different geographical conditions in which children live.

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Section: Emilia Romagna Regionsupporting

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From tale to reality: Geographical differences in children's flood‐risk perception

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“…Those with higher perceived consequences will be more likely to be motivated to participate in skill‐learning activities, but non‐destructive earthquake experience weakens this relationship. “Normalization” bias (Becker et al, ; Johnston et al, ) may account for the moderating role of non‐destructive earthquake experience. Individuals’ experiences of previous earthquakes that did not result in damage or losses elicit a “normalization bias,” which may cause them to develop a belief that they have the ability to cope with serious adverse consequences of future earthquakes and that it is not necessary to prepare.…”

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“…media reports) or indirect experience (e.g. non‐destructive earthquake experience, which, in this study, refers to the experience of small earthquakes without injury and loss) to form their understandings of earthquakes (Becker et al, ). However, few studies have examined the impacts of vicarious and indirect experiences.…”

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“…However, few studies have examined the impacts of vicarious and indirect experiences. As noted by Becker et al (), “whether people prepare or not appears to be dependent on the nature of the experience and how that experience has been interpreted (p.180).” This study aims to continue to provoke discussion on this topic.…”

Section: Previous Experience Risk Perception and Preparednessmentioning

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“…In the past decades, numerous disaster studies have investigated what factors may contribute to public preparedness (Becker, Paton, Johnston, & Ronan, ; Lindell et al, ; Solberg, Rossetto, & Joffe, ). Experience of damaging hazards and risk perception have been recognized as two important predictors (Becker, Paton, Johnston, Ronan, & McClure, ; Solberg et al, ). However, there are approximately twenty thousand earthquakes every year, but most of them are small and are not disasters.…”

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Does non‐destructive earthquake experience affect risk perception and motivate preparedness?

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There are thousands of earthquakes every year, but most of them are small and are not disasters. This study explored whether non‐destructive earthquake experience affects public risk perception and motivates preparedness. The study respondents were from the Jiaodong Peninsula, China, where more than 20 small earthquakes have occurred during the past decade. The results show that non‐destructive earthquake experience positively affected public perception of the probability of an earthquake but not the perception of consequences. The relationship between non‐destructive earthquake experience and preparedness intention was not statistically significant. In addition, this study revealed that the perception of consequences was a positive predictor of earthquake preparedness intention, that is people with higher levels of perceived consequences of an earthquake were more likely to be motivated to prepare. However, non‐destructive earthquake experience moderated this relationship, that is weakened the strength of this relationship between perceived consequences and skill preparedness intention. These findings permit the identification of potential pathways to increase levels of disaster preparedness and potential barriers to enhancing disaster resilience in regions experiencing small hazards.

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The role of prior experience in informing and motivating earthquake preparedness

Cited by 239 publications

References 61 publications

From tale to reality: Geographical differences in children's flood‐risk perception

From tale to reality: Geographical differences in children's flood‐risk perception

Does non‐destructive earthquake experience affect risk perception and motivate preparedness?

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