Adoption of Earthquake Hazard Adjustments by Households and Complex Organizations

*9633594林德尔这项研究将评估位于不同地震易损性地区的社会单位在采用地震危险调整方面的差异程度，并将确定预测采用行为差异的变量。这项研究将审查在地震影响时积极发挥作用(准备)和被动发挥作用(缓解)的措施，以最大限度地减少死亡、受伤、财产损失和功能损失。这项研究将涉及两种不同类型的社会单位--家庭和复杂组织，后者分为私营企业和政府机构。政府机构将进一步分为在其任务说明中包含紧急情况部分的机构(例如，消防和警察部门、应急管理办公室)和没有这一部分的机构(城市经理办公室、财务部门、社会服务等)。该研究项目还将探讨影响每一类社会单位的物质和社会环境的特点。物理环境的变化将通过研究高地震风险(南加州)和中等地震风险(华盛顿州西部)的社会单位来检查。

*** 9633594 Lindell This research will assess differences in the extent to which social units located in areas with different levels of seismic vulnerability vary in their adoption of earthquake hazard adjustments, and also will identify variables predicting these differences in adoption behavior. The study will examine measures that function actively (preparedness), as well as passively (mitigation), at the time of earthquake impact to minimize deaths, injuries, property damage, and loss of function. The study will involve two different types of social units--households and complex organizations, with the latter category divided into private businesses and government agencies. Government agencies will be divided further into those with an emergency component in their mission statements (e.g., fire and police departments, emergency management offices) and those without such a component (city manager's offices, finance departments, social services, etc.). The research project also will address characteristics of the physical and social environment affecting each of these types of social units. Variations in the physical environment will be examined by studying social units at high (southern California) and medium (western Washington) seismic risk.***