Browsing by Subject "risk perception"
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(2020-07-21)Coal tar creosote played a major role in the advancement and expansion of the global transportation system, through the preservation of wood ties and crossties used in the structural development of the trans-continental ...
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(2020-04-10)Much of the damage caused by hurricanes is influenced by risk reduction behaviors in affected residents such as evacuation and implementation of mitigation strategies. Risk reduction behaviors are often voluntary and heavily ...
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(2020-03-23)Negative interactions between humans and elephants are a concern in places where they cohabitate. Elephants threaten the lives and livelihoods of individual people, and people are an existential threat to the survival of ...
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(2020-04-07)During disaster events, people react depending on how they perceive a hazard or risk. An often-omitted impact of disasters is how children experience disasters and respond in their aftermath, including changes in risk ...
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(2015-02)In a 2013 U.S. national public opinion survey, data were collected from 1,321 adult respondents for five psychometric variables—Dread, Scientists’ Level of Understanding, Public’s Level of Understanding, Number Affected, ...
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(2018-11-16)Along the Texas-Mexico border, different management regimes, property rights, and uses for groundwater are overlapping or conflicting, which has led to unilateral takings on both sides of the border and severe aquifer ...