Abstract
Minority populations frequently face heightened vulnerabilities compared to other racial groups during disasters. This research investigates how the responses to disaster issues of minority populations vary across rural and urban areas. The study examines differences in disaster evacuation vulnerabilities among minority populations by analyzing their evacuation status and choices of evacuation destinations. The 2023 survey employed a two-target groups approach, sampling minorities of all ages in both urban (eighty people) and rural areas (eighty people), and collected a total of 160 responses from northwest Florida. Our study could be influenced by various disasters, but we assume that people respond based on their perceptions of hurricanes. The survey was conducted using Pollfish, an online tool specializing in mobile application surveys, based on diverse eligibility criteria. Twelve logistic regression models were developed, examining evacuation status and future evacuation destination as dependent variables, with independent variables spanning socioeconomic, health, and past consequences dimensions. The results show that 61.3 percent of urban minorities and 81.3 percent of rural minorities evacuated at least once in past disasters. The study identifies statistically significant variables, highlighting evacuation behavior differences between urban and rural minorities, with implications for emergency management to address marginalized populations’ evacuation needs more effectively.
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