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A key part of response to a disaster is timely and effective evacuation. That in turn taps into a wide range of human responses, and psychology is there to help create the most effective strategies.
Mitigation enables people and communities to prevent disasters or at least reduce their impacts on the loss of life and property. And while mitigation is often presented as a mission for engineering, there is a wide scope for social and behavioral preparation explains veteran public policy researcher in a new paper on mitigating flooding catastrophes.
A new video from the National Science Foundation concisely emphasizes the role that social science has in preparing for and reacting to natural disasters.
Editor’s note: We are pleased to welcome András Tilcsik of the University of Toronto and Christopher Marquis of Harvard University, […]
