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individual assumption of risk  

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  • Numerous perspectives have been offered in the literature concerning the ways in which individuals process and assume the risks associated with disasters based on environmental stimuli. Risk assessment research has in recent years argued that the individual assumption of risk is a product of both perceptions of hazards in the environment and of negative emotional responses associated with these perceptions. [Source: Encyclopedia of Disaster Relief; Risk, Individual Assumption of]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-B3F0RFPB-T

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