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- Title
- Natural Hazards in Puerto Rico: Attitudes, Experience, and Behavior of Homeowners. Program on Environment and Behavior.
- File
- PB2000101628.pdf
- Author(s)
- Palm, R. I.; Hodgson, M. E.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA., cJanuary 1993, 166 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- ISBN-1-877943-09-6
- Abstract
- This book reports the findings of a 1990 sample survey of Puerto Rican homeowners. The purposes of the survey were threefold: first, to document perceptions and response to a variety of natural hazards confronting Puerto Rican residents; second, to assess the effects of different intensities of experience with a hurricane on risk perception and insurance purchase; and third, to compare attitudes and response to natural hazards in two different environmental, cultural and political settings -- Puerto Rico and California.
- Keywords
- ; Emergency preparedness; Emergency planning; Hurricanes; Comparative evaluations; Public policy; Disasters; Floods; Mitigation; Risk assessment; Perception; State planning; California; Insurance; Attitudes; Puerto Rico; Public opinion; Human behavior; Local planning; Surveys; Earthquakes