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100			_aDonahue, Amy K.
245			_aReady or not? How citizens and public officials perceive risk and preparedness
260			_c2014
300			_ap.89s-111s
362			_aJul
520			_aThe more prepared people are, the less harm they will suffer when disaster strikes. Yet anecdotal and empirical evidence shows that people overestimate their preparedness and are underprepared. While a robust literature has matured around hazards, risk, and vulnerability, and disaster policy, politics, and management, the literature about individual preparedness is much more limited and inconsistent. We know little about why people prepare (or why they do not), and what would make them prepare more. As a result, public managers are at a loss about how to design effective preparedness programs. In this paper, we survey the literature on preparedness to crystallize the gaps in our understanding of when and how citizens react to the threat of disaster. We then examine and compare the views of risk and preparedness held by individuals and government officials drawing on insights from a 4-year study that involved three national surveys and intensive studies in two communities. We use this analysis to address two questions: What do citizens think and do about risks and preparedness, and why? How do local government officials understand what citizens think and do about risks and preparedness? - Reproduced.
650			_aNatural disasters
700			_aWilson, Rick K.
700			_aEckel, Catherine C.
773			_aAmerican Review of Public Administration
908			_aN
909			_a104980
999			_c104975 _d104975