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What Works to Increase Disaster Preparedness?

10.25.17

by–STEPHANIE CHAN

Despite recent disasters and major national efforts to promote disaster readiness, a full two-thirds of American households do not have adequate plans or have no plans at all for a disaster. What can behavioral science teach us about how to get people to prepare?

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