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Evaluating disaster education: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's TsunamiReady™ community program and risk awareness education efforts in New Hanover County, North Carolina

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posted on 2023-05-17, 04:09 authored by Horan, J, Ritchie, L, Meinhold, S, Gill, D, Houghton, B, Gregg, C, Matheson, T, Douglas Paton, Johnston, D
This chapter describes the evaluation of the TsunamiReady™-based educational materials distributed in New Hanover County, North Carolina. The authors evaluate whether educational materials about tsunami risk increased the perception of hazard risk, information, knowledge, and preparedness behaviors. There are three main findings. First, local knowledge of regional hazards remains a strong predictor of changes in attitudes and behavior. Second, educational materials about unlikely hazards have only a moderate impact. Third, information seeking and preparedness behavior is a function of general psychological attributes such as personal risk calculations. The authors argue that a community's hazard experiences and the frequency and severity of hazard events play an important role in receptiveness to educational efforts as well as disaster preparedness. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc., and the American Evaluation Associat

History

Publication title

New Directions for Evaluation

Volume

2010

Issue

126

Pagination

79-93

ISSN

1097-6736

Department/School

School of Psychological Sciences

Publisher

Jossey-Bass Inc.

Place of publication

United States

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The definitive published version is available online at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

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Natural hazards not elsewhere classified

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