Evacuation from Natural Disasters: A Systematic Review of the Literature

• Published in: Risk analysis Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 812 - 839
• Main Authors: Thompson, Rebecca R., Garfin, Dana Rose, Silver, Roxane Cohen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.2017
• Subjects: Behavior; Demographics; Demography; Disasters; Evacuation; Evacuation systems; Evacuations & rescues; Literature reviews; natural disaster; Natural disasters; Outlets; Perceptions; Personality; Psychosocial factors; Reviews; Risk assessment; Risk perception; Self-efficacy; Systematic review; Warnings; natural disaster; systematic review; Evacuation

Research on evacuation from natural disasters has been published across the peer‐reviewed literature among several disparate disciplinary outlets and has suggested a wide variety of predictors of evacuation behavior. We conducted a systematic review to summarize and evaluate the current literature o...