Hazard perception studies : convergent concerns and divergent approaches during the past decade.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1984Description: 27 p. : illSubject: Most hazard scholars are convinced that what people do about hazards is strongly connected to how they perceive them. In quantitative terms research throughout the 1970's has been dominated by hazard awareness studies that focuses on public understanding of risks, but called for major interpretive leaps in search of explainations of subsequent behavior. These scholars must now undertake the more difficult and less glamorous task of fleshing out the existing skeletal understanding of hazard perception principals in the context of hazard adjustment processes. This requires that more attention be paid to the perception and adoption.
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Reprinted from Research Paper (University of Chicago. Dept. of Geography); 19834; Vol. 29; Chapt. 3; pp33-59
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Most hazard scholars are convinced that what people do about hazards is strongly connected to how they perceive them. In quantitative terms research throughout the 1970's has been dominated by hazard awareness studies that focuses on public understanding of risks, but called for major interpretive leaps in search of explainations of subsequent behavior. These scholars must now undertake the more difficult and less glamorous task of fleshing out the existing skeletal understanding of hazard perception principals in the context of hazard adjustment processes. This requires that more attention be paid to the perception and adoption.
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