This study shows that people are more sensitive to overall perceived hurricane-related hazards than they are to individual risk types. Emergency managers can use this information to achieve greater compliance to emergency government directives and evacuations.
By Robert M. Stein, Ph.D., fellow in urban politics, Rice University's Baker Institute, and Lena Gohlman Fox Professor of Political Science, Rice University; Leonardo Dueñas-Osorio, Ph.D., assistant professor of civic and environmental engineering, Rice University; Birnur Buzcu-Guven, Ph.D., research scientist, Houston Advanced Research Center; Devika Subramanian, Ph.D., professor of computer science, Rice University; David Kahle, graduate student, Department of Statistics, Rice University
