Contingencies Affecting the Issuing Of Public Disaster Warnings at Crescent City, California
| dc.contributor.author | Yutzy, Daniel | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2005-05-25T20:59:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2005-05-25T20:59:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1964 | |
| dc.description | Adequate prior warning of impending disaster can save many lives and alleviate property loss. However, when a community or an area is fore-warned and the predicted disaster does not materialize a very negative public reaction toward the officials who issued can develop. This is especially true where evacuation procedures are carried out. Previous disaster studies have indicated that repeated instances of warning not followed by some visible danger cues, result in disbelief or nonacceptance by people in general. As in Aesop's fable, the cry, "Wolf!" repeated too often without subsequent validation ultimately produces a response of either inaction or active rejection. "Note: page 1 is missing" | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Office of Civil Defense, Office of the Secretary of the Army, under Contract No. OCD-PS-64-46, Subtask 265lA | en |
| dc.format.extent | 11855664 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/1286 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Disaster Research Center | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Research Notes/Report;4 | |
| dc.subject | Public Disaster Warning | en |
| dc.subject | Crescent City, California | en |
| dc.subject | Observations | en |
| dc.title | Contingencies Affecting the Issuing Of Public Disaster Warnings at Crescent City, California | en |
| dc.type | Other | en |