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Living with Bushfire Risk: Social and environmental influences on preparedness

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posted on 2023-05-16, 22:39 authored by Douglas Paton, Burgelt, PT, Prior, TD
© 2008 Emergency Management Australia. This paper discusses the process of developing a model capable of informing the development of community outreach strategies to facilitate the sustained adoption of bushfire preparedness measures. Following the identification of anomalies in defining the predictors of preparedness, a qualitative study of the reasoning processes that influence whether or not people decided to prepare for bushfire hazards is presented. The findings of the qualitative study are used to revise the preparedness model. Finally, using data from 482 residents in high bushfire risk areas in Hobart, the ability of the revised model to account for differences in levels of household preparedness is discussed.

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Publication title

The Australian Journal of Emergency Management

Volume

23

Pagination

41-48

ISSN

1324-1540

Department/School

School of Psychological Sciences

Publisher

Emergency Management Australia

Place of publication

Australia

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Natural hazards not elsewhere classified

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