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This book aimed at advancing the theory of environmental hazard adjustment processes by contrasting households from three cities in a high seismic hazard area with households from three other cities in a moderate seismic hazard area. It identified seven types of stakeholders namely, the risk area residents and their families (primary group), the news media, employers, and friends (secondary group), and federal, state, and local governments (tertiary group), and explained why they are relevant to the adoption of seismic hazard adjustments. It also addressed three key attributes knowledge, trustworthiness, and responsibility for protection ascribed to these multiple stakeholders and the relationships of these stakeholder attributes with risk perception, hazard intrusiveness, hazard experience, gender, resource adequacy, fatalism and hazard adjustment adoption.

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Master of City Planning, 8 years of professional experience as an architectural consultant and lecturer in the South Africa. Interested in sustainable land use planning, environmental hazards planning and emergency management, consensus building and dispute resolution, and spatial analyses.

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