Summary

This project is designed to improve our understanding of how to overcome the “adaptation deficit” (Burton, 2004) within the context of community preparedness for coastal storm hazards. To do so, we adopt a social science-based framework of the stages of behavior change to identify key barriers to progress through the stages and to design interventions to overcome these barriers.

Our approach employs the following methods:

1. group decision processes
2. individual interviews
3. a retrospective review of public dialog
4. policy simulation exercises

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