Tsunami risk perception, a state-of-the-art review with a focus in the NEAM region
Large-scale coastal urban sprawl, development of tourist accommodations and industrial maritime poles have highly increased the tsunami risk to people living and/or traveling along the coasts of our planet. The disastrous tsunamis in the Indian Ocean (2004) and in the Pacific Ocean (2011), as well a...
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ftunivromairis:oai:iris.uniroma1.it:11573/1662609 2024-04-14T08:16:20+00:00 Tsunami risk perception, a state-of-the-art review with a focus in the NEAM region Cugliari, Lorenzo Cerase, Andrea Amato, Alessandro Cugliari, Lorenzo Cerase, Andrea Amato, Alessandro 2022 https://hdl.handle.net/11573/1662609 https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.995536 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:000894503400001 volume:10 firstpage:1 lastpage:25 numberofpages:25 journal:FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE https://hdl.handle.net/11573/1662609 doi:10.3389/feart.2022.995536 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-85144006972 tsunami risk perception communication preparedness awareness Europe neam social science info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2022 ftunivromairis https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.995536 2024-03-21T18:33:47Z Large-scale coastal urban sprawl, development of tourist accommodations and industrial maritime poles have highly increased the tsunami risk to people living and/or traveling along the coasts of our planet. The disastrous tsunamis in the Indian Ocean (2004) and in the Pacific Ocean (2011), as well as a suite of other damaging events worldwide, have encouraged International Institutions, first of all UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, National Governments and Local Communities to implement TsunamiWarning Systems (TWS), to raise awareness on tsunami risk, and to create a multilevel risk governance. In this framework, research on tsunami risk perception plays a key role. The results of these studies should be taken into account in designing risk mitigation programs and tools (such as drills, activities with local communities, emergency plans, etc.). This paper presents a review of such studies, carried out in several countries worldwide through many thousands of interviews performed with different techniques. Most tsunami risk perception studies were carried out in the regions where the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System and the Pacific Ocean one (PTWS) operate. In the NEAMTWS(North-East Atlantic, Mediterranean and connected seas TsunamiWarning Systems) region, only few specific studies were conducted, mostly within the EU-funded ASTARTE project (2013–2017) and more recently in a few extensive surveys on tsunami risk perception conducted in Italy between 2019 and 2021. Although the twenty-three studies analyzed in our review show a strong heterogeneity of methodological approaches and population samples, they allow us to outline some general considerations on tsunami risk as perceived by people in the different regions of the world. With the help of a table, we schematically summarized the emerging strengths, weaknesses and lessons learned in the twenty-three papers, noting an increase in the number of such studies in the last 5 years. The surveysweremostly concentrated in high-risk areas and ... Article in Journal/Newspaper North East Atlantic Sapienza Università di Roma: CINECA IRIS Indian Pacific Frontiers in Earth Science 10 |
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Large-scale coastal urban sprawl, development of tourist accommodations and industrial maritime poles have highly increased the tsunami risk to people living and/or traveling along the coasts of our planet. The disastrous tsunamis in the Indian Ocean (2004) and in the Pacific Ocean (2011), as well as a suite of other damaging events worldwide, have encouraged International Institutions, first of all UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, National Governments and Local Communities to implement TsunamiWarning Systems (TWS), to raise awareness on tsunami risk, and to create a multilevel risk governance. In this framework, research on tsunami risk perception plays a key role. The results of these studies should be taken into account in designing risk mitigation programs and tools (such as drills, activities with local communities, emergency plans, etc.). This paper presents a review of such studies, carried out in several countries worldwide through many thousands of interviews performed with different techniques. Most tsunami risk perception studies were carried out in the regions where the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System and the Pacific Ocean one (PTWS) operate. In the NEAMTWS(North-East Atlantic, Mediterranean and connected seas TsunamiWarning Systems) region, only few specific studies were conducted, mostly within the EU-funded ASTARTE project (2013–2017) and more recently in a few extensive surveys on tsunami risk perception conducted in Italy between 2019 and 2021. Although the twenty-three studies analyzed in our review show a strong heterogeneity of methodological approaches and population samples, they allow us to outline some general considerations on tsunami risk as perceived by people in the different regions of the world. With the help of a table, we schematically summarized the emerging strengths, weaknesses and lessons learned in the twenty-three papers, noting an increase in the number of such studies in the last 5 years. The surveysweremostly concentrated in high-risk areas and ... |
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