Perception of Hurricane and COVID-19 Risks for Household Evacuation and Shelter Intentions
Perception of Hurricane and COVID-19 Risks for Household Evacuation and Shelter Intentions
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DOI：
10.1080/00330124.2022.2103722
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发表时间：
2022-07-27
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Sun，Yanshuo
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作者：
Zhao，Tingting;Jia，Minna;Sun，Yanshuo
2019冠状病毒病大流行为学者和政府官员提出了新的挑战，以预测在冲突的自然灾害下人们的疏散决定。在这项研究中，我们研究了家庭的疏散和避难意愿，考虑到飓风和共存的公共卫生危机之间的潜在冲突。我们调查了2020年飓风季节期间居住在佛罗里达飓风疏散区内的家庭。数据首先用于检查大流行之前和期间的疏散和避难意图。然后，我们分别衡量了受访者对飓风和COVID-19风险的看法。两种风险认知对受访者的飓风疏散意图的影响进行了探讨。我们发现，当人们在2级、3级或4级飓风期间感到呆在家里不安全时，无论他们对COVID-19的风险认知如何，他们在大流行之前和期间的疏散计划大致相同。然而，COVID-19风险认知显著降低了1级飓风的疏散意图。它还显著影响了撤离者对非传统住所的偏好，如政府承包的酒店。研究结果对突发事件应急管理和公共卫生治理具有现实意义。我们的研究还为自然灾害和传染病之间的冲突下的决策提供了见解。
The COVID-19 pandemic presented new challenges for scholars and government officials to predict people’s evacuation decisions under a conflicting natural disaster. In this study, we examined households’ evacuation and shelter intentions given the potential conflicts between the perceived risks from a hurricane and the coexisting public health crisis. We surveyed households living inside hurricane evacuation zones in Florida during the 2020 hurricane season. Data were first used to examine the evacuation and shelter intentions before and during the pandemic. We then measured respondents’ hurricane and COVID-19 risk perception, respectively. The impacts of both risk perceptions on respondents’ hurricane evacuation intentions were explored. We found that when people felt unsafe to stay home for a Category 2, 3, or 4 hurricane, their intended evacuation was about the same before and during the pandemic regardless of their COVID-19 risk perception. The COVID-19 risk perception, however, significantly lowered the evacuation intention for a Category 1 hurricane. It also significantly influenced evacuees’ preference for nontraditional shelters such as government-contracted hotels. The results of our study have practical implications for emergency management and public health governance. Our study also provides insights into decision-making under the conflict between natural hazards and infectious diseases.