Some social effects of a natural hazard: Darwin residents and Cyclone Tracy.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1976Description: 16p., no refs, 13 tablesReport number: Institutional/Corporate BodySubject: This paper presents some of the findings from an investigation undertaken by members of the Dept of Anthropology and Sociology and the Dept of Social Work at the University of Queensland. It has two main concerns. First, to consider a selection of the experiences of Darwin residents at the time of the cyclone and immediately afterwards, and secondly to examine certain of the consequences that followed from the decision to evacuate a large proportion of the residents in the days following the cyclone. An exploratory study which was carried out some months ago, using only a portion of the questionnaire data, revealed the strong likelihood that those victims of Cyclone Tracy who were evacuated from Darwin and had not returned at the time of being interviewed, some 7 or 10 months later, were substantially worse off in a number of respects than those who had stayed in Darwin. Analysis of the complete data has tended to confirm this finding while at the same time providing a more comprehensive picture of the situation
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Symposium Dates 26-29 May 1976
This paper presents some of the findings from an investigation undertaken by members of the Dept of Anthropology and Sociology and the Dept of Social Work at the University of Queensland. It has two main concerns. First, to consider a selection of the experiences of Darwin residents at the time of the cyclone and immediately afterwards, and secondly to examine certain of the consequences that followed from the decision to evacuate a large proportion of the residents in the days following the cyclone. An exploratory study which was carried out some months ago, using only a portion of the questionnaire data, revealed the strong likelihood that those victims of Cyclone Tracy who were evacuated from Darwin and had not returned at the time of being interviewed, some 7 or 10 months later, were substantially worse off in a number of respects than those who had stayed in Darwin. Analysis of the complete data has tended to confirm this finding while at the same time providing a more comprehensive picture of the situation
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