This statistical meta-analysis (SMA) examined 38 studies involving actual responses to
hurricane warnings and 11 studies involving expected responses to hypothetical hurricane …

Research on evacuation from natural disasters has been published across the peer‐
reviewed literature among several disparate disciplinary outlets and has suggested a wide …

The Protective Action Decision Model (PADM) is a multistage model that is based on
findings from research on people's responses to environmental hazards and disasters. The …

Large-Scale Evacuation introduces the reader to the steps involved in evacuation modelling
for towns and cities, from understanding the hazards that can require large-scale …

Each of these Handbooks survey the field in a critical manner, evaluating theoretical models
in light of the best available empirical evidence. Distinctively sociological approaches are …

Researchers have examined a wide range of factors that affect evacuation decisions after
people hear hurricane forecasts and other information. This review of the literature focuses …

Protective actions for hurricane threats are a function of the environmental and information
context; individual and household characteristics, including cultural worldviews, past …

In recent years, the world has watched in horror as tsunamis, earthquakes, and hurricanes
have wrought havoc across countries and continents. While these events have different …

This study focused on household evacuation decisions and departure timing for Hurricane
Ike. The data were consistent with an abbreviated form of the Protective-Action Decision …

This study collected data on the evacuation from Hurricane Lili to answer questions about
households' reliance on information sources, the factors affecting their decisions to …