SciDevNet: To engage people in early action we must understand their experience, behaviour and constraints, says disaster policy expert Andrew Collins.
Disaster predictions have significant uncertainty that tends to undermine efforts to act on early warnings. In Bangladesh, for example, where there are extensive climatic hazards, people risk their lives by not taking refuge in a cyclone shelter, choosing instead to guard livestock or their homes.
Such risk-taking is repeated by poor people around the......
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Posted by SciDevNet: Andrew Collins on November 21st, 2012
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