Evacuation Behavior of Households Facing Compound Hurricane-Pandemic Threats

Authors

Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf, Old Dominion UniversityFollow
Jennifer L. Whytlaw, Old Dominion UniversityFollow
Nicole Hutton, Old Dominion UniversityFollow
Taiwo Olanrewaju-Lasisi, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries
Bridget Giles, Old Dominion UniversityFollow
Kaleen Lawsure, Old Dominion UniversityFollow
Joshua Behr, Old Dominion UniversityFollow
Rafael Diaz, Old Dominion UniversityFollow
George McLeod, Old Dominion UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2023

DOI

10.1111/puar.13634

Publication Title

Public Administration Review

Volume

83

Issue

5

Pages

1186-1201

Abstract

This study examines households' prospective evacuation behavior during a hurricane-pandemic compound threat. Data from a 2020 survey of coastal Virginia households help answer two questions: (1) What factors associated with the threat and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and hurricanes influence prospective evacuation behavior of households during a compound hurricane-pandemic event? (2) What are the equity implications for emergency management policies and practices to support evacuation and sheltering during a compound hurricane-pandemic event? Households in the sample were split between those who stated they would evacuate away from the at-risk region and who would stay. Greater household vulnerability to hurricanes and COVID-19 and having sufficient financial resources increase likelihood of evacuation. Higher income households were more likely to have resources to evacuate and less likely to suffer financial consequences from a hurricane or pandemic. Racial minorities are more vulnerable to the pandemic and face greater resource challenges for evacuating.

Rights

© 2023 The Authors. Public Administration Review published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Society for Public Administration.

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

ORCID

0000-0003-3599-1417 (Yusuf), 0000-0002-1612-8805 (Whytlaw), 0000-0003-3398-9524 (Lasisi), 0000-0003-1512-6848 (Giles), 0000-0002-7602-1778 (Lawsure), 0000-0002-0472-3068 (Behr), 0000-0002-8637-5967 (Diaz), 0000-0002-5220-0472 (McLeod)

Original Publication Citation

Yusuf, J.-E., Whytlaw, J. L., Hutton, N., Olanrewaju Lasisi, T., Giles, B., Lawsure, K., Behr, J., Diaz, R., & McLeod, G. (2023). Evacuation behavior of households facing compound hurricane-pandemic threats. Public Administration Review, 83(5),1186-1201. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13634

Repository Citation

Yusuf, Juita-Elena (Wie); Whytlaw, Jennifer L.; Hutton, Nicole; Olanrewaju-Lasisi, Taiwo; Giles, Bridget; Lawsure, Kaleen; Behr, Joshua; Diaz, Rafael; and McLeod, George, "Evacuation Behavior of Households Facing Compound Hurricane-Pandemic Threats" (2023). School of Public Service Faculty Publications. 60.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/publicservice_pubs/60