Japanese groups had the highest risk perceptions for both types of hazards and North Americans and Argentineans had the lowest risk perceptions for terrorism. Additionally, participants across all cultures rated risk to self as lower than risk to others (optimistic bias) across all disaster types. ...
The present study explores differences among Japanese, Argentinean, and North American mental health workers in their rates of the optimistic bias in risk perceptions as contrasted between natural disasters and terrorist events. The results indicate a significant difference among cultures in levels of ...
Examples of such differences include (I) that due to the structure of many societies, females may be more at risk in a general way to the consequences of hazards and disasters than males (e.g. Morrow, 1995a; Valdes, 1995), (2) both formal and informal personal post-disaster community ...
Phosgene (carbonyl dichloride) gas is an indispensable chemical inter-mediate used in numerous industrial processes. There is no clear consensus as to its time- and inhaled-dose-dependent etiopathologies and associated preventive or therapeutic treatment
Disproportionately high fatality rates for the elderly in recent disasters indicate that these differences are a key determinant of survival in a disaster, and that crucial information about how elderly perceive and respond to hazards is missing.This research aims to improve understanding of how ...
摘要: Differences in preparedness and possibility of preparedness for earthquake disaster prevention between Fukui University students with different living situations. 服部 勇/田中 和子 , 田中 和子 Nature and environment of the Sea of Japan districts (9), 77-91, 2002-11-01关键词:...
- 《Environmental Hazards》 被引量: 10发表: 2016年 Control of unfair contract terms and social values: EC and Nordic approaches The paper analyses the relationship between traditional market rational contract law and rules on the control of unfair contract terms. The question is ask... T ...
Identifying and analyzing the urban–rural differences of social vulnerability to natural hazards is imperative to ensure that urbanization develops in a way that lessens the impacts of disasters and generate building resilient livelihoods in China. Using data from the 2000 and 2010 population censuses,...
For a more comprehensive understanding, further investigation should be conducted across different communities in different countries with different environmental hazards.Practical implications - The findings contribute to the understanding of the influence of demographic factors in disaster management field, and...
earthquake;evacuation;dyslipidemia;man-made disasters;physical activity 1. Introduction The Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE) that occurred on 11 March 2011 caused widespread damage in the Tohoku region, including collapsed houses and disrupted lifelines, as well as tsunami damage along the Pacific co...