Hao-Che Wu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4387139 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hao-Che Wu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hao-Che |
| FAMILY NAME | Wu |
| SIGNATURE | WU H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Professor, Dept. of Emergency Management and Disaster Science, Univ. of North Texas, 308C Chilton Hall, 1155 Union Circle #310637, Denton, TX 76203 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Risk perception and the U-pattern of protective action changes
Navigating dual hazards
Modeling Household Earthquake Hazard Adjustment Intentions
While existing literature has explored how hazard experience, salience, and demographics characteristics shape threat appraisal and hazard adjustment intentions, this study expands on past studies by exploring how additional factors such as qualitative characteristics of the hazard, political ideology, and oil entanglements shape threat appraisals, coping appraisals, and adjustment intentions in response to a techna hazard. This study builds on p…
Drivers of Household Risk Perceptions and Adjustment Intentions to Tornado Hazards in Oklahoma
Tornadoes are responsible for considerable property damage and loss of life across Oklahoma. While several studies have explored drivers of tornado adjustment behaviors, their results are not consistent in terms of their significance and direction. To address this shortcoming in the literature, we surveyed households using a disproportionate stratified sampling procedure from counties in Oklahoma that frequently experience tornado threats to expl…
Does etiology matter? Exploring attitudes towards tornado and earthquake hazards
What Matters? Exploring Drivers of Basic and Complex Adjustments to Tornadoes Among College Students
Scholars have produced several theories and models to explain why individuals adjust to hazards. While findings from these studies are informative, studies have not considered how threat and coping appraisals may have differential effects on varying types of hazard adjustments, or how these findings may generalize to vulnerable populations. This study expands on the Protection Motivation Theory to explore the factors that shape hazard adjustment …
Perceived Stakeholder Information Credibility and Hazard Adjustments
Oklahoma residents have experienced an increase in moderate-scale earthquakes (magnitude 3–5) regularly since 2011. Recently, several scientific reports showed that seismic activities are likely associated with oil companies’ wastewater injection wells. Given that residents have little experience with this induced earthquake hazard and the potential for significant earthquakes, there is considerable risk. Additionally, while residents experience …
Maintaining the status quo
Earthquakes have become more common in Oklahoma. In the face of new hazards, previous studies suggest that communities should incorporate resilience strategies into their planning in order to cope with emerging hazards. Due to their novelty, particularly in relation to other hazards in the state, we know little about how emergency managers are planning for earthquakes. This research uses in-depth interviews to explore how key stakeholders in loca…
Behavioral Response in the Immediate Aftermath of Shaking
This study examines people's response actions in the first 30 min after shaking stopped following earthquakes in Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand, and Hitachi, Japan. Data collected from 257 respondents in Christchurch, 332 respondents in Hitachi, and 204 respondents in Wellington revealed notable similarities in some response actions immediately after the shaking stopped. In all four events, people were most likely to contact family memb…
Perceptions of protective actions for a water contamination emergency
Local authorities who believe their water systems are contaminated need to warn those at risk to take protective actions. In the past, such efforts have often achieved only partial success in preventing people from deciding to continue consumption of contaminated drinking water. To examine the possible antecedents of decisions to comply with water consumption advisories, this study examined 110 Boston residents’ actual protective actions and 203 …
Household Evacuation Decision Making in Response to Hurricane Ike
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 Model in which female gender, official warning messages, hurricane experience, coastal location, and environmental and social cues were hypothesized to produce perceived storm characteristics, which in turn, would produce expected personal impacts. Finally, the latter, tog…
Maintaining the status quo
Earthquakes have become more common in Oklahoma. In the face of new hazards, previous studies suggest that communities should incorporate resilience strategies into their planning in order to cope with emerging hazards. Due to their novelty, particularly in relation to other hazards in the state, we know little about how emergency managers are planning for earthquakes. This research uses in-depth interviews to explore how key stakeholders in loca…
Household Evacuation Decision Making in Response to Hurricane Ike
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 Model in which female gender, official warning messages, hurricane experience, coastal location, and environmental and social cues were hypothesized to produce perceived storm characteristics, which in turn, would produce expected personal impacts. Finally, the latter, tog…
Behavioral Response in the Immediate Aftermath of Shaking
This study examines people's response actions in the first 30 min after shaking stopped following earthquakes in Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand, and Hitachi, Japan. Data collected from 257 respondents in Christchurch, 332 respondents in Hitachi, and 204 respondents in Wellington revealed notable similarities in some response actions immediately after the shaking stopped. In all four events, people were most likely to contact family memb…
Perceptions of protective actions for a water contamination emergency
Local authorities who believe their water systems are contaminated need to warn those at risk to take protective actions. In the past, such efforts have often achieved only partial success in preventing people from deciding to continue consumption of contaminated drinking water. To examine the possible antecedents of decisions to comply with water consumption advisories, this study examined 110 Boston residents’ actual protective actions and 203 …
Maintaining the status quo
Earthquakes have become more common in Oklahoma. In the face of new hazards, previous studies suggest that communities should incorporate resilience strategies into their planning in order to cope with emerging hazards. Due to their novelty, particularly in relation to other hazards in the state, we know little about how emergency managers are planning for earthquakes. This research uses in-depth interviews to explore how key stakeholders in loca…
Perceived Stakeholder Information Credibility and Hazard Adjustments
Oklahoma residents have experienced an increase in moderate-scale earthquakes (magnitude 3–5) regularly since 2011. Recently, several scientific reports showed that seismic activities are likely associated with oil companies’ wastewater injection wells. Given that residents have little experience with this induced earthquake hazard and the potential for significant earthquakes, there is considerable risk. Additionally, while residents experience …
What Matters? Exploring Drivers of Basic and Complex Adjustments to Tornadoes Among College Students
Scholars have produced several theories and models to explain why individuals adjust to hazards. While findings from these studies are informative, studies have not considered how threat and coping appraisals may have differential effects on varying types of hazard adjustments, or how these findings may generalize to vulnerable populations. This study expands on the Protection Motivation Theory to explore the factors that shape hazard adjustment …
Drivers of Household Risk Perceptions and Adjustment Intentions to Tornado Hazards in Oklahoma
Tornadoes are responsible for considerable property damage and loss of life across Oklahoma. While several studies have explored drivers of tornado adjustment behaviors, their results are not consistent in terms of their significance and direction. To address this shortcoming in the literature, we surveyed households using a disproportionate stratified sampling procedure from counties in Oklahoma that frequently experience tornado threats to expl…
Does etiology matter? Exploring attitudes towards tornado and earthquake hazards
Modeling Household Earthquake Hazard Adjustment Intentions
While existing literature has explored how hazard experience, salience, and demographics characteristics shape threat appraisal and hazard adjustment intentions, this study expands on past studies by exploring how additional factors such as qualitative characteristics of the hazard, political ideology, and oil entanglements shape threat appraisals, coping appraisals, and adjustment intentions in response to a techna hazard. This study builds on p…
Navigating dual hazards
Risk perception and the U-pattern of protective action changes
Disaster Management and Resilience (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Hazard (6 works) · Risk Perception and Management (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Flood Risk Assessment and Management (5 works) · Perception (5 works) · Risk perception (5 works)