Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2023

DOI

10.1111/puar.13634

Publication Title

Public Administration Review

Volume

Article in Press

Pages

1-16

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.

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, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13634

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