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Supplemental material, TRR_Paper_-_20-03710_Seaside_survey for Households’ Intended Evacuation Transportation Behavior in Response to Earthquake and Tsunami Hazard in a Cascadia Subduction Zone City by Chen Chen, Alexandra Buylova, Cadell Chand, Haizhong Wang, Lori A. Cramer and Daniel T. Cox in Transportation Research Record

A common assumption is that ecosystem services respond linearly to changes in habitat size. This assumption leads frequently to an “ all or none ” choice of either preserving coastal habitats or converting them to human use. However, our survey of wave attenuation data from field studies of mangroves, salt marshes, seagrass beds, nearshore coral reefs, and sand dunes reveals that these relationships are rarely linear. By incorporating nonlinear wave attenuation in estimating coastal protection values of mangroves in Thailand, we show that the optimal land use option may instead be the integration of development and conservation consistent with ecosystem-based management goals. This result suggests that reconciling competing demands on coastal habitats should not always result in stark preservation-versus-conversion choices. Fil: Barbier, Edward B. University of Wyoming; Estados Unidos Fil: Koch, Evamaria W.. University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science; Estados Unidos Fil: Silliman, Brian Red. University of Florida; Estados Unidos Fil: Hacker, Sally D.. Oregon State University; Estados Unidos Fil: Wolanski, Eric. James Cook University and Australian Institute of Marine Science; Australia Fil: Primavera, Jurgenne. Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center; Filipinas Fil: Granek, Elise F.. Portland State University; Estados Unidos Fil: Polasky, Stephen. University of Minnesota; Estados Unidos Fil: Aswani, Shankar. University of California; Estados Unidos Fil: Cramer, Lori A.. Oregon State University; Estados Unidos Fil: Stoms, David M.. University of California; Estados Unidos Fil: Kennedy, Chris J.. University of Wyoming; Estados Unidos Fil: Bael, David. University of Minnesota; Estados Unidos Fil: Kappel, Carrie V.. University of California; Estados Unidos Fil: Perillo, Gerardo Miguel E.. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto Argentino de Oceanografía. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Instituto Argentino de Oceanografía; Argentina Fil: Reed, Denise J.. University of New Orleans; Estados Unidos

Quality of life is an important issue for residents facing potential changes in their social and/or physical environments. Potential quality of life changes are especially relevant for rural residents of southern Nevada who are currently facing the possibility of living near the nation's first high-level nuclear waste repository. Whether the effects of the proposed repository are perceived as positive or negative, they nonetheless alter residents' perceptions of their quality of life. A theoretical model was designed to guide the analyses in this study. It suggested that residents have both current perceptions and future expectations for themselves and their community. When a proposed facility is introduced into the area, residents are forced to evaluate their future expectations in light of the new information about the proposed project. Based upon their new evaluation, residents will either support/oppose a proposed facility. From this theory sketch, eleven hypotheses regarding the relationship between quality of life and support/opposition for the proposed Yucca Mountain facility are derived. Using survey and ethnographic information obtained from rural Nevada residents, these hypotheses are examined. The results indicate that although residents from all of the study communities are generally satisfied with their quality of life, they differ on both the types of anticipated repository-induced effects and whether they support or oppose the proposed repository. A relative absence of predictive power by quality of life measures, when taken in isolation from other variables, was unexpected. For all study communities, anticipated changes from the proposed project emerged as strong predictors of support/opposition, much stronger than the quality of life variables.

This paper examines the extent to which personal social network ties serve as support or conflict systems, or both. It investigates the differences in perception of the extent of supportive/antagonistic ties by size of community of residence and by gender of network ties cited. It was found that both support and conflict networks were more extensive for the smallest and largest communities than for a second small community which recently experienced very rapid growth. This suggests that growth patterns may be more significant in understanding network relations than community size. The findings also indicate that range of contacts reported does not differ by gender but female support and conflict networks are somewhat larger than those of males. overall, males were identified more often as a tie in emotional support contexts and females in instrumental support contexts. Females were more likely to be identified as requesting support from both genders. Women reported more duplication of support and conflict ties than men. Both males and females are far more likely to designate same-gender individuals as contact, support or antagonistic ties. The study clearly supports the notion that networks include both supportive and nonsupportive ties.