Predicting information seeking regarding hurricane evacuation in the destination

Cahyanto, Ignatius; Pennington‐Gray, Lori; Thapa, Brijesh; Srinivasan, Sivaramakrishnan; Villegas, Jorge; Matyas, Corene J.; Kiousis, Spiro

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2015.06.014

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“…Indeed, few risk information seeking studies have been conducted within a crisis or disaster context. Those that have, examined preevent information-seeking differences among residents and non-residents (Cahyanto et al, 2016;Kellens, Zaalberg, & De Maeyer, 2012) and information seeking in a post-disaster context, after the threat has passed (Griffin et al, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The RISP model (Figure 1) identifies key factors that affect risk information seeking (Cahyanto et al, 2016;Dunwoody & Griffin, 2015;Griffin et al, 1999Griffin et al, , 2008Kahlor, 2007;Kahlor, Dunwoody, & Griffin, 2002;Kahlor et al, 2006;Yang, 2012;Yang et al, 2010Yang et al, , 2011Yang et al, , 2014. These factors include personal motivation to obtain information sufficiency, informational subjective norms, cognitive evaluation of the risk, affective response to risk, perceived information-gathering capacity, and channel beliefs related to information seeking (see Table 2; Griffin et al, 1999;Griffin, Dunwoody & Yang, 2012).…”

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Willingness to click: Risk information seeking during imminent threats

Sutton

Woods

Vos

2017

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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Short messaging systems have the potential to deliver targeted messages to individuals needing critical safety information. However, their limited content may provide insufficient life‐saving information. One solution is to include a hyperlink that allows message recipients access to a web page. Research has not examined whether at‐risk individuals are willing to use this strategy in time critical situations. Using constructs from the risk information seeking and processing model, this study investigates how individuals perceive and make decisions to click on hyperlinks during crisis events. Findings suggest that the nature and timing of the crisis, risk judgement, and risk perceptions strongly influence decisions to click in crises. Suggestions are offered on ways to facilitate information seeking on short messaging systems during crises.

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Willingness to click: Risk information seeking during imminent threats

Sutton

Woods

Vos

2017

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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“…In order to better manage hurricane evacuations, a study analyzed Hurricane Lili from the perspectives of household reliance on information sources, factors affecting their decisions to evacuate, timing of their hurricane evacuation decisions, and the time it takes them to prepare to evacuate [27]. Evacuation studies conducted over the past two decades have found that various population groups employ different sources to seek evacuation information [28]. Evacuees behavior were motivated by the Governor's official evacuation order, Weather Channel/ National Weather Service/local news, local officials' warnings, and actions/advice from peers [29].…”

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“…Among the factors, the characteristics of the household show a significant effect on the evacuation decisions [44][45][46][47][48][49][50], including its timing [51,68], destination [28,67] and mode [52]. One reason is that the characteristics of the household are consistently associated with risk perception.…”

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Optimization of Evacuation Warnings Prior to a Hurricane Disaster

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Abstract:The key purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that optimization of evacuation warnings by time period and impacted zone is crucial for efficient evacuation of an area impacted by a hurricane. We assume that people behave in a manner consistent with the warnings they receive. By optimizing the issuance of hurricane evacuation warnings, one can control the number of evacuees at different time intervals to avoid congestion in the process of evacuation. The warning optimization model is applied to a case study of Hurricane Sandy using the study region of Brooklyn. We first develop a model for shelter assignment and then use this outcome to model hurricane evacuation warning optimization, which prescribes an evacuation plan that maximizes the number of evacuees. A significant technical contribution is the development of an iterative greedy heuristic procedure for the nonlinear formulation, which is shown to be optimal for the case of a single evacuation zone with a single evacuee type case, while it does not guarantee optimality for multiple zones under unusual circumstances. A significant applied contribution is the demonstration of an interface of the evacuation warning method with a public transportation scheme to facilitate evacuation of a car-less population. This heuristic we employ can be readily adapted to the case where response rate is a function of evacuation number in prior periods and other variable factors. This element is also explored in the context of our experiment.

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“…All participants were informed that their participation would be anonymous and voluntary, with no financial incentives offered. The data was collected during the peak forest fire season in Corsica 2017 -August to September; in the past, studies have shown this to be a good time to capture participants' attention, since many individuals are actively interested in the ongoing phenomena[75]. Data collection stopped once all available channels of dissemination were exploited and a wide coverage of Corsican communes was observed.The design of survey questions were guided by the Bushfire CRC questionnaire administered to survivors of the Black Saturday bushfires in Australia, 2009[46].…”

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Island vulnerability and resilience to wildfires: A case study of Corsica

Vaiciulyte

Galea

Veeraswamy

et al. 2019

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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The number of wildfires occurring globally is exacerbated by urbanisation and changes in weather patterns. In response, researchers have conducted studies of wildfires and human behaviour in regions such as Australia and the USA. Regions in Europe have received less attention, despite facing the same issues. Even more overlooked are one particular type of territory: islands. With their climates, islands across the Mediterranean remain attractive second home and tourist destinations, resulting in urban development. Yet due to certain features (e.g. cultural, socio-political, geographical), the ways in which their people deal with wildfires may differ somewhat from that in some mainland territories. This paper explores human behaviour in wildfire emergencies in the context of island vulnerability and resilience in Europe, with the Mediterranean island of Corsica as a case study. Qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews (n = 8) with Corsican professionals involved in wildfire management and quantitative analysis of around 100 surveys from civilians was conducted. This analysis revealed that Corsica's population approach to wildfire safety is shaped by available information as well as a strong risk culture, which stands in contrast with new/temporary residents moving into the island each summer season. The results drawn from the analysed sample suggest potential social vulnerability in wildfires when a decision to evacuate the population is taken by emergency managers as the most effective emergency response. Population behaviour were not influenced by property attachment, perceived risk, hazard knowledge, community closeness and locus of control, suggesting that island WUI resident characteristics may not be generalised from human behaviour in wildfires studies carried out in the USA or Australia.

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Predicting information seeking regarding hurricane evacuation in the destination

Cited by 64 publications

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Willingness to click: Risk information seeking during imminent threats

Willingness to click: Risk information seeking during imminent threats

Optimization of Evacuation Warnings Prior to a Hurricane Disaster

Island vulnerability and resilience to wildfires: A case study of Corsica

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