Population evacuation in volcanic eruptions, floods, and nuclear power plant accidents
Some elementary comparisons
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11044751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ronald W Perry (Battelle, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 36-47 |
| Publication date | 1983-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Community Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-4392 • E-ISSN: 1520-6629 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/1520-6629(198301)11:1<36::aid-jcop2290110104>3.0.co;2-2 |
| OpenAlex | W1973174122 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 7 |
This paper reports a comparative analysis of citizen evacuation response to three different types of environmental threats: a riverine flood, a volcanic eruption, and the nuclear reaction accident at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania. While there have been numerous discussions in the theoretical literature regarding the extent to which human response to nuclear and nonnuclear threats are likely to be comparable, to date there have been no empirical studies of the phenomenon. It was found that citizen belief in real situational danger and warnings from authorities were most frequently cited by evacuees as reasons for leaving in both nuclear and nonnuclear incidents. Mass media warnings were infrequently cited as important reasons for evacuating, and social network contacts were relatively more important to evacuation decision making in the natural disasters than at Three Mile Island. For both the natural disasters and the nuclear accident, most citizens who did not evacuate chose not to do so because they did not believe that a real danger existed.
Accident (philosophy) · Archaeology · Environmental health · Flood myth · Forensic engineering · Geography · Meteorology · Mile · Natural disaster · Nuclear power · Nuclear power plant · Physics · Population · Volcano · Disaster Management and Resilience · Engineering · Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics · Geology · History · Medicine · Risk Perception and Management
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Information Planning and the Geographical Context of Radiological Emergency Management
Variations in Disaster Evacuation Behavior
Evacuation intention on the Southern Chilean coast
Nuclear Power
A psychoepidemiologic approach to the study of disaster
Communication of emergency public warnings
Milling and Public Warnings
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2022 (36) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |