Disaster Preparedness in Escambia County Florida: The Influence of Oral Narratives
Description:
This work addresses hurricane preparedness in Escambia County, Florida. It explores preparing for hurricanes as an informal learning process occurring within personal networks and embedded in beliefs, values, and attitudes. Findings reveal that participants learned to prepare from their parents in childhood and improved upon that knowledge through direct experience in adulthood. Later, they passed this knowledge on to their children as well as co-workers. These preparations are embedded in beli…
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Date:
December 2018
Creator:
Vanlandingham, Keith Marcel
Partner:
UNT Libraries