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Banfield, a native of Australia who received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1990, studies the interactions among microbes in extreme physical environments, such as highly acidic mines in California that have been declared Superfund hazard sites.
Specifically, education, experience, gender, and age are individual characteristics; household size (members), children, and older people of households mainly reflect households' demographic characteristics, while income, social support (financial help), distance to hazard sites, housing material, and other indicators mainly reflect characteristics of households' livelihood assets.
Coal ash sites contain harmful levels of arsenic, lead, mercury and other toxins, which can leach out slowly contaminating drinking water sources, or as in the case of the 44 "high hazard" sites, flood nearby communities with a life-threatening wave of toxic sludge as happened last year in Tennessee.
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Move away from the hazard site to a safe location.
The new approach produces results that are specific to the hazard, site, and structure considered, and yet is generalizable and can be systematically applied.
Related sites The 2004 Planetary Defense Conference NASA's impact hazard site.
Additionally, individual and household socioeconomic characteristics—education, loss, distance from hazard site, information acquisition channel, and housing material were all related to household disaster preparedness behavior.
This will be considered close to our research work as earthquake induced landslide can be a disaster for the cities living in the high risk zones and road network will play an important role in reaching the hazard site.
Use of local and/or indigenous knowledge in inhabited regions, gathered in the field May be useful in hazard site identification, chronicling of past events, their impacts and characteristics, and identification of useful adjustments and preventive measures.
With respect to the proximity to the hazard, it was generally acknowledged that households were more likely to relocate/evacuate when the home is closer to the hazard site (Wilmot and Mei 2004; Lindell et al. 2005), although some studies showed an opposite result (Lim et al. 2016).
H4 Household characteristics—including income, social support, whether a household has experienced economic loss from landslides, distance to hazard site, source of information, size of household, children, the elderly, and housing material are all significantly correlated with household relocation willingness, but the direction of the influences are unknown.
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